If you’re a good person, you should feel it in your heart. And not like your figurative heart that they write love songs about. We’re talking your literal pumping blood in and out and if it stops you’re in big trouble heart. A new study has found that people who are generous may actually be more in touch with their own heartbeat.
Scientists from Anglia Ruskin University had participants play a computer game where they were asked to make choices about sharing money with themselves or a stranger. They also played sounds that were either in sync or out of sync with their own heartbeats. In the end, the study found that the people who had better awareness of their heartbeats also ended up being more generous in nature.
So what does this mean out of the laboratory?The researchers say that it might just prove that “selfless acts may be influenced by signals from the body that reach the brain.” It’s possible that people like the jolt their heart gets when they give a homeless person some money, or on the other side. Or as the studies co-author Jane Aspell puts it, “these findings suggest that, in some sense, people ‘listen to their heart’ to guide their selfless behaviors.”
Source:Study Finds