Michael Shofi

Dancing could make people more emotionally sensitive and increase empathy, scientists

have claimed. Researchers at City, University of London, and the University of the Balearic

Islands tested the response of 19 ballet dancers and 24 people with “no dance experience” to

videos of ballet dancers expressing a range of emotions through different movements, according

to a statement about the research. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they found the ballet dancers were

better at recognizing the emotions on display and also had a strongly physical reaction to them,

which the scientists measured by using electrodes to detect sweat on the participants’ fingers.

This makes absolute sense to me because artists of any kind have to use empathy in their

respective art forms.