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What is the name of the sympathetic response people have when coughing or clearing their throat when someone else in close proximity has just done so?

Question #152211. Asked by VegemiteKid.
Last updated Aug 26 2025.
Originally posted Aug 25 2025 2:58 PM.

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I have heard this phenomenon described as "contagion coughing", by which is meant coughing produced by the stimulus of someone else coughing. There are likely parallels between this phenomenon and familiar others: yawning when someone else yawns, wincing when someone else is injured.


Aug 26 2025, 4:13 PM
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