3.2.5 Heuristics and spending
One reason why people sometimes pay higher prices for certain goods and services is that they think a higher price equates to higher quality. The price of a product is often used as a mental short cut to assess quality. Such short cuts are called heuristics and they’re used to help assess situations when there’s limited information available.
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