Itching can be contagious
Simply seeing someone scratching is enough to trigger your own bout of clawing, in a vain effort to rid yourself of pests, real or imagined....neuroscientists say ;)
Vrai ou faux?!?
Science says it's true so stop scratching yourself when you look at the bear :D
Paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23150550
Article:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/you-scratch-i-scratch-the-social-contagion-of-itch/
#science #scratching #contagious #medicine
Could be a driver or correlate of mutual grooming behavior typical of social apes.
ReplyDeleteOr it could just be "huh, I wonder if I'm itchy -- oh man I'M SO ITCHY"
ReplyDeleteGreat...I realized I started scratching my elbow just as I watched the image. Very funny...
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