News Finding: Our new study with @username in @username : How ‘wearing’ a tactile heart(beat) helps you stay calmer  
Paper Finding: Participants in the doppel active condition displayed lower increases in skin conductance responses relative to baseline and reported lower anxiety levels compared to the control group.
News Context: Our new study with @username in @username : How ‘wearing’ a tactile heart(beat) helps you stay calmer  
Paper Context: Vickhoff and colleagues 6 monitored the heart rates of singers and found that as the members sang in unison, their pulses began to speed up and slow down at the same rate. Participants in the doppel active condition displayed lower increases in skin conductance responses relative to baseline and reported lower anxiety levels compared to the control group. Therefore, the presence, as opposed to its absence, of a slow rhythm, which in the present study was instantiated as an auxiliary slow heartbeat delivered through doppel, had a significant calming effect on physiological arousal and subjective experience during a socially stressful situation.