The JoyScore Experiment.

Where Science Meets Joy and Human Connection

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A global open-science project to measure joy, synchrony, and human connection — and to understand how they shape healthspan, resilience and flourishing.

For centuries, humans have gathered to dance, move, and celebrate together. Today, neuroscience is finally catching up with what culture has always known: human connection and synchrony is medicine.

The JoyScore Experiment is the research engine behind Longevity Rave — a multi-year scientific programme studying how rhythm, movement, and shared energy affect the brain, the heart, the immune system, and our long-term resilience.

We use cutting-edge tools — from mobile brain EEG tracking to cutting-edge longevity biomarkers — to understand how joy moves through a group, how it spreads, and how it transforms us.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND JOY.

The JoyScore experiment is a ‘social exposome’ project that sits inside the broader Human Exposome Project — the totality of environmental, social, sensory, and behavioural inputs that shape healthspan.

It will help us build the world’s first JoyScore metric— a scientific metric for collective joy and its downstream benefits for resilience, flourishing, and health.

In our studies, we intentionally shape these inputs — sound, light, tempo, spacing, and social cues — to train the nervous system toward safety, connection, and co-regulation.

Based on the Longevity Rave study protocol the experiment prioritises mediators plausibly linking psychosocial exposure to downstream degeneration:

  • Inflammatory tone

  • Mitochondrial stress and recovery dynamics

  • Neuroendocrine and autonomic regulation

  • Neural state and synchrony signatures

PILOT STUDY:

Frontier Tower (San Francisco)

4-9 December 2025

Our pilot study, conducted at Frontier Tower in San Francisco, compared structured “longevity rave” conditions with traditional social mixers using controlled rhythmic, sensory, and synchrony-oriented protocols. Participants contribute physiological, emotional, and synchrony data to help explore how shared joy and embodied connection shape health beyond conventional wellness metrics..

This feasibility study included:

Two event conditions (within-subject crossover):

  1. Control Social Mixer

    • ≤110 BPM

    • Neutral lighting (no rhythmic modulation)

    • No synchrony cues

    • Social mingling

  2. Longevity Rave (Science Rave)

    • Tiered BPM arc from ≤110 BPM to > 160 BPM

    • Sound + light designed for co-regulation

    • Sober drug-free protocol (T−72h → T+72h)

Every participant receives:

  • AWEAR mobile brain-EEG tracking

  • A free BLEO stress+recovery wearable

  • Premium access to Humanity biological-age app

  • First look at their emotional and synchrony patterns

  • Participation in a global open-science movement


    See article Welcome to joyspan, the hot new trend in longevity in San Francisco Standard Joy Gets Measured published in Longevity Technology