The JoyScore Experiment.
Where Science Meets Joy and Human Connection
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 got alot of interest. Seethe detailed piece Welcome to joyspan, the hot new trend in longevity in San Francisco Standard and Joy Gets Measured published in Longevity Technology
Our pilot study included two stages (within-subject crossover):
Control Social Mixer
≤110 BPM
Neutral lighting (no rhythmic modulation)
No synchrony cues
Longevity Rave (Science Rave)
Tiered BPM arc from ≤110 BPM to > 160 BPM
Sober drug-free protocol (T−72h → T+72h)