"Science" has just published an article that shows that adults and children use the same strategies in deciding how to vote.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5918/1183 You have to pay to read the whole article but there is a very nice review of the work at Ed Yong's Not Exactly Rocket Science blog. http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/02/voters_use_child-like_judgments_when_judging_political_candi.php Stephen
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