Is yawning actually "contagious"?

there are many theories of this in psychology at least. Here is my favourite. Yawning is a suvival mechanism, we instinctivly yawn when oxygen is scarse not just when we are tired. Therefore, if we see someone yawning we subconsciously feel threatened and yawn also. After a while it does indeed look as though it is contagious where, in reality, it is simply primeval instinct, a left over from a much earlier time. Good luck keep on posting

It's been studied to be a measure of how "in tune" or compassionate you are with somebody if you yawn when they do. I don't have much trouble with people in public but when my children yawn I can't help but do it too.

I think it is. Funny how when someone does it you do it too. Maybe it is some kind of reflex.

yawning is contagious. In a classroom if one person starts yawning soon u will find another person yawning and then the next and so on. So i feel it is contagious.