<story><title>When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync</title><url>http://blog.pnas.org/2021/09/journal-club-when-listeners-pay-close-attention-to-stories-their-heart-rates-synchronize/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramblenode</author><text>&amp;gt; This correlation of heart rates, described this month in Cell Reports, could one day lead to new tools for measuring attentiveness, both in the classroom and the clinic.&lt;p&gt;Shame such interesting science inspires such dystopian machinations.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;People synchronize their bodies when absorbed in attention.&amp;quot; --&amp;gt; &amp;quot;How can schools use this to make sure students are paying attention?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Please don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m reminded of Snow Crash:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y.T.&amp;#x27;s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y.T.&amp;#x27;s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It&amp;#x27;s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they&amp;#x27;re careful, not cocky. It&amp;#x27;s better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She&amp;#x27;s pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It&amp;#x27;s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Text copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17067951&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17067951&lt;/a&gt; . Neat that googling for the quote brought me right back to HN.)</text></comment>
<story><title>When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync</title><url>http://blog.pnas.org/2021/09/journal-club-when-listeners-pay-close-attention-to-stories-their-heart-rates-synchronize/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramblenode</author><text>&amp;gt; This correlation of heart rates, described this month in Cell Reports, could one day lead to new tools for measuring attentiveness, both in the classroom and the clinic.&lt;p&gt;Shame such interesting science inspires such dystopian machinations.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;People synchronize their bodies when absorbed in attention.&amp;quot; --&amp;gt; &amp;quot;How can schools use this to make sure students are paying attention?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Please don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>Exactly my thought. Instead of saying &amp;quot;hey, isn&amp;#x27;t this a really interesting finding and maybe we could use it to help people get over anxiety&amp;quot; or something like that, they go the dystopian route.&lt;p&gt;But I do wonder if they go that direction because they&amp;#x27;re interested in corporate funding for their research and that could be a way to get it.</text></comment>