Tillery and Fishbach also engaged other participants in what they claimed was a test of how young adults perform on skills they hadn’t used much since childhood. They handed people a stack of five cards, each of which had a shape drawn on it. The shape was always the same, but it was rotated into a different position on each card. They gave people scissors and asked them to cut out the shapes as carefully as possible. Then the researchers presented the cutout shapes to lab workers not involved in the experiment and asked them to rate, on a 1-to-10 scale, the cutting accuracy of the five
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