“…Appeals to variety are well‐documented in adults (see Kahn, , for a review), who have been shown to prefer variety, even in cases where it requires foregoing some preferred experience (e.g., Read & Loewenstein, ). For example, when given an opportunity to pick two candies, when the choices included both Snickers and Twix, adults typically picked one of each, even when explicitly providing a preference for one (e.g., “I was considering past experiences with the candy bars, and I took into consideration my enjoyment of Snickers more than Twix.”) (Mittelman, Andrade, Chattopadhyay, & Brendl, ). Similarly, when children 4–12 years were shown the same displays described above in the scarcity studies (e.g., a combination of novel artifacts of two types), they consistently selected varied to nonvaried sets (e.g., select A and B much more often than either two As or two Bs).…”