Kids are probably more strategic about swapping Halloween candy and other stuff than you might think

The Conversation – Margaret Echelbarger

“To see whether kids realize that preference can be used as leverage, I worked with two other psychologists, Kayla Good and Alex Shaw. Across three studies, which will appear in Judgment and Decision Making, an academic journal, we asked 314 children as young as 5 and up to 10 years old to predict whether someone we called Mr. Frog would agree to make a specific swap. In two of these studies, our team told some of these kids that Mr. Frog preferred chocolates to cookies and others learned that he liked these two foods equally.” (more)