The arts should embrace new research showing theatre audiences synchronise heartbeats – the effects are proven to be good for your health and your love life, writes Richard Morrison.
Going to the theatre can boost your love life. That’s an eye-catching claim, even if it comes out of research sponsored by the ticket agency Encore, which obviously has more than a passing interest in the matter. The actual research, however, was led by a scientist with impeccable credentials: the experimental psychologist Joseph Devlin, from University College London.
His team measured the hear... Keep reading on the Times
Going to the theatre can boost your love life. That’s an eye-catching claim, even if it comes out of research sponsored by the ticket agency Encore, which obviously has more than a passing interest in the matter. The actual research, however, was led by a scientist with impeccable credentials: the experimental psychologist Joseph Devlin, from University College London.
His team measured the hear... Keep reading on the Times