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suitcase through a midnight airport.
Gore seems genuinely puzzled that no
one paid attention: “I actually thought
and believed that the story would be
compelling enough to cause a real sea
change in the way Congress reacted to
that issue. I thought they would be
startled, too. And they weren’t.”
But if Gore had known then what we
know now about Kagan’s research, and
Aron’s, he might have been less surprised
by his colleagues’ reactions. He
might even have used his insight into
personality psychology to get them to
listen. Congress, he could have safely
assumed, is made up of some of the
least sensitive people in the country—people
who, if they’d been kids in
one of Kagan’s experiments, would
have marched up to oddly attired
clowns and strange ladies wearing gas
masks without so much as a backward
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