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# Our hearts and brains are so tightly connected, studies have found, that when we hear the same story, our heart rates sync up.
- URL: https://werd.io/our-hearts-and-brains-are-so-tightly-connected-studies-have/
- Published: 2021-10-26T04:32:59.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-26T04:32:59.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“The novel find­ing is that heart rate cor­re­la­tion be­tween sub­jects does not re­quire them to ac­tu­ally be in­ter­act­ing, or even be in the same place. They can be lis­ten­ing to sto­ries all alone at home, and their heart rate fluc­tu­a­tions will align with the story, and thus cor­re­late with other lis­ten­ers. It’s not the in­ter­ac­tion be­tween peo­ple but the story it­self that does the trick.”

\[[Link](https://www.wsj.com/articles/storytelling-makes-hearts-beat-as-one-11633795321)\]