☆ Work on this paper has been supported by grants (2014-1735), the Fetzer Foundation, and the Cente Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford. The initial draf while Lee Jussim was a CASBS Scholar. We thank Ifat M “Wow Effect” developed in this paper. ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. Jussim), craw [email protected] (S.M. Anglin), seantstevens [email protected]...

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