Kate Murphy

And they do that by showing people videos where they flash slides of different images.

And the first slide, it shows a whole bunch of people with a neutral facial expression.

And then another slide with a whole bunch of people, but they're sort of varying expressions.

And you're supposed to tell them immediately, I've done this.

It's interesting.

And it gets almost like a pointless painting.

If you think about it, you realize you can't look at individual faces.

You have to almost look at it like a pointless painting, and then you see the image.

I think anyone who's done public speaking, I think some people will say, oh, you need to focus on one person in the room.

That probably isn't the best idea.

You probably, if you want to read the entire room, is to look more towards the back.

But I think you really hit on something when we were focusing on the interoception is to really try and get out of your own head and just experience.

What are you experiencing?

And your body will tell you.

But most of us know that.

When we've walked into a party that's not going well, like maybe we're late, walk into a dinner party and, you know, somebody's just, you know, the dog's just thrown up on the floor, but you don't know that, but you can walk in and like, oh my God, what just happened?

You don't know what happened, but you know something happened.

Oh, absolutely.

In terms of getting people to sync with you when, and this could be somebody before an audience or just with someone individually, the people that tend to foster the most synchrony with other people are people who are more expressive.

And if you think about it, it's sort of like turning up the volume a little bit, kind of like being closer to somebody because you're giving them more to work with.