Todorov and Colleagues Asked Princeton University Students to Pick Who

Multiple Choice

Todorov and colleagues asked Princeton University students to pick who won a series of U.S.Senate and U.S.House of Representative elections.Students correctly picked the winners the majority of the time.What were their guesses based on?

A) their superior memory of the elections' actual outcomes
B) picking who the more attractive candidate in the race was based on photographs
C) mere exposure of the candidates' names
D) the candidates' election platform