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supercool pulse rate during liftoff (only

110 beats per minute).

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But physical lack of cool may be more

socially valuable than we think. That

deep blush when a hard-bitten tester

puts his face an inch from yours and

asks if you’ve ever used cocaine turns

out to be a kind of social glue. In a recent

experiment, a team of psychologists

led by Corine Dijk asked sixty-odd

participants to read accounts of people

who’d done something morally wrong,

like driving away from a car crash, or

something embarrassing, like spilling

coffee on someone. The participants

were shown photographs of the wrongdoers,

who had one of four different facial

expressions: shame or

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