The chills as contagious as yawns

    The chills as contagious as yawns

    Like a yawn or a laugh, it seems that cold and chills can also be transmitted from one person to another.

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    You don't want to hear cold? Don't get close to who you might contagious. And yes, because like a yawn or a laugh, but also of stress, it seems that even the cold and the chills can be passed on from one person to another.

    The cause should be sought in some sort of empathy, a real one brain mechanism managed by what are called "mirror neurons", so looking at a person who is cold would immediately cause a reduction in one's body temperature.

    Neil Harrison and colleagues from the University of Sussex in the UK have demonstrated this. Some volunteers were recruited to watch videos of actors dipping their hands in ice-cold water. The same volunteers then underwent a simultaneous drop in hand temperature.

    The reason why? Perhaps the reason lies in the fact that "men are deeply social creatures", like observes Harrison. “Observing people in extreme conditions ignites a feeling of empathy. We believe that this phenomenon of 'imitation' of a body reaction helps us to understand how the person we are looking at feels. By mimicking her, we have the impression of being able to create an internal model of her physiological state, useful for better understanding her motivations and feelings ".

    In short, real cooperation that would be very difficult without one ability to "empathize" quickly.

    An authentic power whose secret lies precisely in mirror neurons, “The nerve cells located in specific areas of the brain, which light up when we perform an action or observe a similar one in others. The hypothesis is that some 'mirror properties' are spread more generally also in other brain areas ".


    Do you want proof? Harrison himself suggests a film test: if watching "Atanarjuat the runner" (2001 film where an Inuit escapes naked from an attempted murder in the snow of the Canadian Arctic archipelago) we get cold, then it is true that there is a "contagion thermal".



    Germana Carillo

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