The other flowers a bee has visited recently will influence how it judges this one.
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Context, perceptions and expectations affect the choices both bees and people make.
How might a house that comes on the market today affect what you think of this one?
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Cognitive scientists are investigating the ways relative factors like new options and the order they’re presented influence your choices and beliefs.
Because you’ve never seen it before, right?
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Does gold go to the best snowboarders or the ones with the best place in the order?
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Whether it’s items in a shop, potential speed-dating matches or athletes competing one after another, the order in which they’re presented affects our judgments.