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Strange, because I have met people who always like the last person they spoke to best.


I think it depends a lot on priming, IQ, memory capacity, ability to notice details, etc.

Donald Trump tends to like the last person he spoke to best, but probably because that's the person who comes to mind when asked, and anyway he doesn't really care one way or the other.

Unless the topic of conversation was himself: Donald Trump, in which case he cares a lot, will remember details, and will like whichever person said the nicest things about him, regardless of sequencing.


Maybe they weren't speaking to bachelor contestants.




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