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Ina Ganguli interviewed about how people tend to be attracted to the first item on a list, citing example of a weekly list of academic research papers she and her colleagues studied

Ina Ganguli, economics, is interviewed about how people tend to be attracted to the first item on a list. She cites the example of a weekly list of academic research papers that she and her colleagues studied. They found that the first papers on the list were read more often than those further down the list and those papers were used more often in research. (Morning Edition [NPR], 7/15/15)