As such, TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager not too long ago put her personal like to the check and met with an professional who makes use of brainwave expertise to see who sparks amore in her thoughts.
Sandra Langeslag, Ph.D., an affiliate professor in psychological sciences on the University of Missouri, St. Louis, match Jenna with an electrode cap for an electroencephalogram (EEG), a check that screens and measures electrical exercise within the mind.
The aim was to see how Jenna responded to quite a lot of photos, together with photos of her husband of almost 15 years, Henry Hager.
Over the course of greater than 20 years of analysis, Langeslag has discovered that, whereas she will’t really see love on a check, topics’ brains create extra intense electrical alerts when proven a photograph of their romantic love than when proven photos of different individuals.
The TODAY co-host was additionally proven pictures of a complete stranger as a baseline, her shut pal Al Roker, and another person who has a maintain on her coronary heart — her cat, Hollywood Hager.
“I’m just curious to see what’s going to happen,” Jenna mentioned moments earlier than the check started.
After six minutes of viewing the pictures in random order, Langeslag put that curiosity to relaxation: Jenna’s brainwave response to her husband surpassed the others.
In reality, in line with Langeslag, it proved to be “loads greater” than Jenna’s reactions to Al or the stranger. There was just one different contender to even come shut.
“Your response to the cat is just not fairly as sturdy to your husband, however it’s there,” Langeslag famous. “Which is smart, since you’re in all probability additionally very connected to the cat.”
In case Henry was watching, Jenna added, “But extra connected to the husband.”
And, as she realized when her session with Langeslag aired on TODAY, Feb. 13, Henry already knew all in regards to the EEG’s findings — and even ready a response to all of it.
“Jenna, I perceive you simply completed a love examine and that I got here out on high,” he mentioned in a video message to his spouse. “You do really love me, (and) I like you.”
“It’s onerous to imagine,” he mentioned of the outcomes, particularly since he joked that her decisions have been between “Harry Styles, our cat, Tom Brady and,” with a gesture towards himself, “this man.”
That man then went on to want her a cheerful Valentine’s Day.
This article was initially printed on TODAY.com
