IELTS Listening: Why do People Yawn?

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Do you ever wonder why we yawn? Do you always yawn when you see other 

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yawn? A new 

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 from Nottingham University in the UK has done 

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on this. Researchers found that yawning is 

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It is a powerful and unstoppable 

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People automatically want to yawn when they see other people yawning. The researchers said people 

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 yawn more when they try to stop yawning. The researchers also found that 

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 people have a much 

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 urge to yawn than other people. Lead researcher Professor Stephen Jackson said that 

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reading about yawning could be enough to make people yawn. You might even want to yawn right 

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The researchers studied the reactions and brain 

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of 36 adult volunteers. The 

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 looked at video clips of other people yawning. They then had two 

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either to stop themselves yawning or to allow 

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 to do it. The volunteers were videoed as they yawned or tried 

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 to yawn. The researchers also monitored the brain 

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 of the volunteers and checked how strong their 

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 to want to yawn was. Jackson said understanding more about yawning will help to treat 

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 such as dementia, epilepsy and Tourettes. He said: “We are looking for 

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 non-drug, personalized treatments…that might be effective in [changing] 

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 in the brain.” 

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