How DiCaprio's Romeo And Juliet came out as the top movie tear-jerker
Watching Romeo wooing Juliet is almost guaranteed to set hearts a-flutter and pulses racing among movie fans. But it's not simply that the audience are hopeless romantics...it's all down to quantified electroencephalography. Scroll down for more... Smoochy: Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes in Romeo And Juliet, which a report has found is most likely to make us cry That's the tongue-twisting scientific name for a phenomenon in which neurons in our brains mirror the emotions we watch on screen - meaning we experience the same feelings. So the palpitations, increased heart rate, raised blood pressure, goose pimples and sweating palms depicted by the actors on screen are felt in real life by those watching. And an experiment has found that the movie which most gets our emotional empathy racing is Romeo And Juliet, starring Claire Danes and Leonardo Dicaprio . The study involved wiring up 1,000 volunteers to electrodes to measure their heart rate and blo...