A new study by the University of Waterloo and the Australian Catholic research that the fluctuations of your heartbeat may affect your wisdom, recommending that heart rate variation and thinking process work together to enable wise reasoning about complex social issues.
Grossmann noted , “ the research shows that wise reasoning is not exclusively a function of the mind and cognitive ability as they found that people who have greater heart rate variability and who are able to think about social problems from a distanced viewpoint demonstrate a greater capacity for wise reasoning”
According to the research, “the people with more heart rate were able to reasonin a wiser,less biased fashion about societal problems when they were instructed to reflect on a social issue from a third-person perspective. But, when the study's participants were instructed to reason about the issue from a first-person perspective, no relationship between heart rate and wiser judgment emerged”
Grossmann added that, “ to channel their cognitive abilities for wiser judgment, people with greater heart rate variability first need to overcome their egocentric viewpoints”
The research appears in the online journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.