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The Price of Pleasure

Researchers at Stanford University have found that the more wine costs, the more people enjoy it (regardless of how it tastes). Because people expect wines that cost more to be of higher quality, they trick themselves into believing high-priced wines are more pleasurable than less expensive ones.

01-15-08 in Science | Link | add to del.icio.us | Digg this story