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This Or That? How Babies' Picks Become Preferences

Wow in the World

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Unconscious Bias in Babies

Babies are just like adults in the sense that they tend to like things they choose better. And even when they just make a choice randomly between two things that are basically the same. But what if the element of choice were taken away? What would happen if we chose the boo boo, beany bopper for each baby to play with? The researchers actually did this in some follow up experiments. They discovered that when they didn't give the baby a choice, the baby didn't really have a strong preference or feeling for either toy. So for unconscious bias to exist, the person must be able to make a choice - which suggests that we like things because we choose them, and we dislike

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