Todorov and Colleagues Asked Princeton University Students to Pick Who

question 12

Multiple Choice

Todorov and colleagues asked Princeton University students to pick who won a series of U.S.Senate and U.S.House of Representative elections.Students correctly picked the winners the majority of the time.What were their guesses based on?

• A)their superior memory of the elections' actual outcomes
• B)picking who the more attractive candidate in the race was based on photographs
• C)mere exposure of the candidates' names
• D)the candidates' election platform

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