Sweden Eurovision 2022

Neuroscientists measured 75 volunteers' physiological responses while they watched eight countries' performances to predict which songs will do well in the ...

The researchers found that their predictions based on skin conductance levels didn’t match up exactly with those based on heart rate. “We are a social species.” “Whereas we’re all bored in different ways – someone may be staring at a window, while someone’s going to be kicking their feet, and so they’ll have divergent mental states. “When something’s really gripping, everyone’s brains are processing the same stimulus and so you’ll have physiological synchrony,” he says. This was then used to make predictions about how well each of these countries will do in tonight’s public vote. Ukraine wasn’t included as it is the runaway favourite this year.