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Do Sociopaths Have Empathetic Yawns?

This isn't wordplay, here. 

I've heard that when a person yawns shortly after someone else... It can be empathy causing that. 

To what extent does a sociopath experience the inability to empathize with others? 

Is this purely a barrier of emotions, or does it extend to nuances such as yawning?

Moreso in scenarios like what I've described.
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Empathy can be broken down to a cognitive and affective component which are processed by two largely independent neural networks. Deficits for sociopaths typically arise in affective empathy; 'feeling' the associated emotion for the situation. Yawn contagion is theorized to be one of the simplest forms of cognitive empathy and is processed by the mirror neuron networks. Therefore, sociopaths have yawn contagion in tact but deficits in empathy arise when it involves generating the associated emotion with the cognitive appraisal of an event.