And something interesting happened: when the boxes containing only 18% baseballs were opened, the preschoolers usually chose to give one of the baseballs to the Squirrel.

这时有趣的事情发生了：当打开那个包含18%棒球的箱子的时候，孩子们通常会选择一个棒球。

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The kids were told that a puppet that looked liked a squirrel (which was creatively called "Squirrel") liked one group of toys — either the baseballs or the basketballs — but not other.

研究人员告诉他们一个像松鼠（称为松鼠是非常有创造性的)一样的木偶喜欢其中一种玩具—棒球或篮球。

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And when the boxes that contained all baseballs were opened, the kids would often just sit there.

而当最后一个箱子被打开的时候，这些孩子们只是坐在那里没有行动。

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