Economics endows prospective businessmen with quite a few desirable qualities, such as intelligence and intuition.

Successful business people do use their intuition, their intelligence, and their experience to make decisions. But economics could add something to the repertoire of business people that goes beyond these eminently desirable qualities. Economics should give people a different perspective on things.

Watch two people talking. If you observe them closely you’ll see that over time they start to imitate each other’s body language. Tanya had people sit down and talk with a confederate who would make various gestures and movements in a planned way. The participants in the study would unconsciously start to imitate their confederates.