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the cost of zero cost

pected pleasure for the truffle would now be 36 pleasure

units (50-14), and the total expected pleasure for the Kiss

would now be five pleasure units (5-0). The truffle leads by

the same 31 points, so it should be the same easy choice. The

truffle wins hands down.

This is how the pattern of choice should look, if the only

forces at play were those of a rational cost-benefit analysis.

The fact that the results from our experiments are so different

tells us loud and clear that something else is going on,

and that the price of zero plays a unique role in our decisions.

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