The Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had
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I'm Rufus Griskam. And I'm Caleb Bissinger. And this is the next big idea. Today, the emerging science of why we click. You know that feeling when you're totally in sync with someone?
Maybe you finish each other's sentences. Yeah, you're picking up what they're putting down. Scientists have a name for that feeling. They call it interpersonal synchrony. Turns out we subconsciously mimic other people's movements, postures, facial expressions, and gestures.
We even sync involuntary functions like heart rate, blood pressure, brain waves. pupil dilation and hormonal activity. And why do we do that? We do that because when we embody and internalize one another, we're able to get a read on their thoughts and their feelings. That's journalist Kate Murphy, author of the forthcoming book, Why We Click.
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