There’s good news and bad news about why upchucking causes other people in the immediate vicinity to upchuck,” said Amy Morin, who teaches psychology at Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield, Maine and works a licensed clinical social worker.
“The good news is, if it happens to you, it means you have empathy,”
By Bill Briggs
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