heart rate variability

Our Silent Heart-to-Hearts

Our Silent Heart-to-Hearts

In five or ten years could social coherence monitoring be as routine an event for the device-devoted as texting is today? So far, there’s no app for it. Social coherence is a concept, but too complex to have made it to the popular market. Still, I find the possibility mesmerizing—that the physiologies of two people (or seven!) could synchronize—not just their thoughts, but their heart beats, their breathing rates, their hormones. Why not?

Magnetic Hearts

Magnetic Hearts

Tthere’s lots of science out there telling us that we humans have come a long way toward understanding how to connect with people who are not like us. And now we can measure what we have always known, that one heart can magnetically attract and entrain another.