[A] fascinating disc TAI You have surely noticed how, when we are with someone who beams with positive energy, this seems to rub off, so that we start feeling the same kind of energy developing in ourselves, even if we were a bit tired only a few minutes previously. We rarely feel very energetic when we are with someone who yawns all the time. It frequently happens in such situations that we start yawning too. This is something we've all undoubtedly seen happen. But it was only a few years ago that a scientific explanation was found as to why such phenomena actually work the way they do, and this explanation has far-reaching consequences for understanding the process of how we learn when we are young and how empathy, the ability to 'put ourselves in other people's shoes', works.