A silly study? But think of the use cases! The Wristband monitors everyone's heat rate and knows the correct response to each media input. "It seems you have stopped paying attention to your targeted advertising. Shall I replay your ads now?"
“Your response during the two-minutes hate did not show wide enough variation in response to scenes of our enemy Oceania and images of Big Brother. Please report for conditioning.”
Sure, it may not be at the government level except at certain agencies, however imagine when this sort of mentality is used to measure corporate culture. Your subconscious responses during your annual reviews and corporate pep rallies may take on a whole new dynamic.
either this or the other obvious dystopian application, monitoring employees attention in meetings.
1: https://spectrum.ieee.org/smartphone-camera-senses-patients-...