Personality, Emotion Expressions, and Rapport

port, when everything clicks, everything seems suspended in time, and everything for that moment is perfect. This would be a suitable endpiece for the authors to aim for and, if that ideal conception can be kept in mind, it would keep the focus directly on the excellent value system that initially stimulated this research. In certain respects, the concept of the magical moment of rapport is very much like the magical sunset. In western skies most of the sunsets look fine, but once in a great while there is one that is just perfect. Most of the variables remain the same, but some few shift ever so slightly, such as the amount of dust or moisture in the air, leading to a magical sunset that is of unsurpassed glory for the human spirit. I think that the notion of rapport ultimately serves a similar function in humans' dealings with each other. The authors deserve a great deal of credit for pursuing such a beautiful notion and, as I noted earlier, one that is almost impossible to pin down. I hope that they will be able to keep their eyes on the magic as they pursue the mundane and grubby details of the analytic variables and their data.