Predicting Elections: Child’s Play!
Abstract
In two experiments, children and adults rated pairs of faces from election races. Naïve adults judged a pair on competence; after playing a game, children chose who they would prefer to be captain of their boat. Children’s (as well as adults’) preferences accurately predicted actual election outcomes.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- February 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.1167748
- Bibcode:
- 2009Sci...323.1183A
- Keywords:
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- PSYCHOLOGY