The “recency effect” is especially pronounced in children – an important finding for researchers and parents | School of Social Sciences

Keen to test if the same is true in young children, or if one of the effects is more dominant, a team led by Emily Sumner, a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, conducted two experiments and published their findings in a recent paper in PLOS One fantastically titled “Cake or Broccoli: Recency Biases Children’s Verbal Responses”.

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