-Not only is social connection at work good for our health, studies have shown that it is beneficial for team dynamics in the workplace.

At the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Michael Platt explores the phenomenon of synchrony in which brain activity and physiological states align among two or more people.

-So what we're looking at here is a very simple study collecting data from two human participants here.

One is eye tracking.

And then the other piece of data we get from these headbands is electroencephalography data, so these are brainwaves.

We're trying to get a measure of synchronization amongst people who might be in an audience.

Synchrony is a biomarker of connection, and when it's higher, it means you're likely to work better together.

And so we've been trying to understand what is the impact of synchrony in terms of group outcomes, team dynamics.

And are there any ways to turn it up, take it to 11?

That small increment in performance could be the difference.

In one of our earliest studies, we worked with the Penn rowing team.

Rowing depends on synchronized movement.

And so we had these four-person boats, and we studied them in their dryland training.

While they were on these rowing machines lined up next to each other, we measured brain activity, heart-rate activity.

And what we found is they were able to achieve some brain synchrony that would later predict good collaboration, good teamwork.

So this was a kind of breakout moment for us.

We take those insights about how we're wired to connect with each other into business settings.

We've been able to measure brain activity in people while they're working with each other, and we've found amazing patterns of activity at work that predict social connection.

So if you're more synchronized, you are more likely to cooperate, the communication's better, higher trust, et cetera.