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Why a $500 shirt makes $200 feel cheap

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First impressions literally bankrupt you. Anchoring bias means your brain violently latches onto the very first piece of information it gets. If you see a shirt for five hundred dollars, suddenly a two hundred dollar t-shirt feels like a charitable steal, even though you are still being heavily scammed.

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