Yawning and Psychopathy

Yawning and Psychopathy

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 140 , Segment 3

Episode: Apple, Fantasy Football, Yawning, Marine Life, Lab on a Chip

  • Sep 14, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 14:52 mins

Guest: Brian Rundle, Doctoral Student of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University  Everybody knows yawning is contagious. Now, scientists have figured out the level of contagion in a yawn is tied to a person’s empathy. If you know or care about the yawner, you’re more likely to yawn when you see them doing it.   Conversely, if you are immune to contagious yawning, you just might be lacking on the empathy scale, and that just might mean you have the makings of a psychopath.

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Reshuffling of Marine Life

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Guest: Ben Halpern, Ph.D., Professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and an Associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)  Raging wild fires in the West and shrinking ice caps at the poles are two of the more visible effects of a changing climate. But two-thirds of the Earth is underwater, and life there is changing, too.  A group of scientists affiliated with UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) has set out to understand how. Their latest findings suggest that as ocean temperatures rise, marine life begins to search for more suitable conditions, which has consequences for biodiversity and for communities such as fishermen who live off the sea.

Guest: Ben Halpern, Ph.D., Professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and an Associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)  Raging wild fires in the West and shrinking ice caps at the poles are two of the more visible effects of a changing climate. But two-thirds of the Earth is underwater, and life there is changing, too.  A group of scientists affiliated with UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) has set out to understand how. Their latest findings suggest that as ocean temperatures rise, marine life begins to search for more suitable conditions, which has consequences for biodiversity and for communities such as fishermen who live off the sea.