🌱 Babies' random choices become their preferences

When a baby reaches for one stuffed animal in a room filled with others just like it, that seemingly random choice is very bad news for those unpicked toys: the baby has likely just decided she doesn’t like what she didn’t choose.

People assume they choose things that they like, but the new research suggests that’s sometimes backward: We like things because we choose them, and we dislike things that we don’t choose.