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Babies’ random choices become their preferences | Hub – The Hub at Johns Hopkins
We assume we choose things that we like, but research suggests that’s sometimes backwards: We like things because we choose them, and we dislike things that we …
When a baby reaches for one stuffed animal in a room filled with others just like it, that seemingly random choice is very bad news for those unpicked toys: the baby has likely just decided she doesn’t like what she didn’t choose.
Though researchers have long known that adults build unconscious biases over a lifetime of making choices between things that are essentially the same, findings from Johns Hopkins University indicate that even babies engage in this phenomenon, suggesting that this way…
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