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Agree with lots of the article but:

> One study used ‘mood-freezing candles’ to trick some volunteers into thinking their low mood was frozen and, in this case, they didn’t bother procrastinating.

What?

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In "The Regulation of Emotion": "the experimenter burned scented candles in the room, which she presented as part of her research on aromatherapy. She told some participants that the candles would freeze their current mode state for about an hour. The rest were told that the candles would not affect their moods."

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