Why Do You Like What You Like?

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Why Do You Like What You Like? · 2:13 · Intellect Plus

In short: Twin studies, infant feeding experiments, an artificial music market and research with the Tsimane' suggest that taste grows from genes, early exposure, other people and culture together, and scientists have debated how much each one counts.

A 2:12 short film in the series “Rabbit Hole: Memory, Preference and the Brain”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.

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