What Would Make You Go All Will Smith?

The science of self-control.

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Will Smith’s infamous slap has been autopsied by everyone other than the Martians. People were divided. Some felt he was in the wrong while others felt he was justified in doing so.

Either way, it boils down to his reserves of self-control. We have all lost it with someone in the heat of the moment and regretted it later. It…