Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
“Would you like cake or broccoli?” If you ask a child under the age of 3, the answer—eight times out of 10—will be broccoli. But this has less to do with parents successfully instilling healthy food preferences than the order in which the choices are presented. A study led by the University of California, Irvine and published in the online journal PLOS One has found that toddlers are highly subject to “recency bias” when faced with “or” questions: They tend to pick the last option, even if it’s not what they actually want.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-toddlers-broccoli-cake.html