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@DianneDHarman Just looked your books up. I liked Nice and the novels of Peter Mayle. Naturally, had to buy" Coyote in Provence"
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From Thinking:Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Bill: Frown! You will think more logically.
Half the students were told to puff out their cheeks during the task, while the others were told to frown. Frowning, as we have seen, generally increases the vigilance of System 2 and reduces both overconfidence and the reliance on intuition. The students who puffed out their cheeks (an emotionally neutral expression) replicated the original results: