Sweden will be one of the top-performing countries in tonight’s Eurovision song contest, according to researchers who analysed peoples’ physiological responses to eight of the performances
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Ukraine wasn’t included as it is the runaway favourite this year. “No one would have been impressed if we predicted that Ukraine would win,” says Richardson. “When something’s really gripping, everyone’s brains are processing the same stimulus and so you’ll have physiological synchrony,” he says. “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. Or at least that’s our working hypothesis.”
Of the countries looked at in the study, the team anticipates that Sweden will place the highest in the public vote, followed by Australia and Italy. Norway will get the lowest score, the researchers predict.
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