Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. More recently, evidence has ...

People’s heart rates and breathing can sync up with shared experiences. Researchers wonder about how often this happens. A series of studies suggest that participants’ heart rates fluctuate in the ...

Robert Epstein, a behavioral psychologist and former editor of Psychology Today, has created a number of exercises, based on research about intimacy, to help build a romantic relationship. He was ...

People often unconsciously synchronize bodily functions like heartbeat and breathing when they share an experience, such as a live performance or have a personal conversation. According to a new study ...

Researchers studying audience members at classical concerts have found that the bodies of listeners displayed "significant" synchronicity in their physical responses to the music. In a study published ...