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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 We Learn and Make Connections Better When Information Comes from People We Like The way we’re “wired” to learn may divide us Scientific American Europe 21 May, 2024 | 782 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ The human brain tends to play favorites. Its prejudices, well demonstrated by psychological studies, include the “halo effect”: if we like a certain quality in a person, we’re more likely to perceive their unrelated traits positively as well. There’s also “affinity bias,” which refers to how we gravitate toward people with backgrounds or characteristics similar to our own. Now a study shows how cognitive biases could profoundly affect our most basic learning and memory processes. “What we show is not that people are biased; that we already kind of know,” says Inês Bramão, a psychologist at Sweden’s Lund University and co-author of the new study, published in Communications Psychology. “We give an explanatio ………………………………