Tag: Contagious

Is Good Leadership Contagious?

There’s something called ‘social contagion theory,’ which essentially posits that behaviors or attitudes can spread through a network in the same way that diseases do. For example, if you have happy friends, you’re 25 percent more likely to be happy. If yo...

Why are Yawns Contagious?

My wife has been off caffeine for the last couple weeks as a self-experiment. She is yawning a heck of a lot more. I am talking multiple times a minute. That means I am yawning a heck of a lot more as well. But why is that? I am not more tired than usual and, unlike my wife who likes to live life...