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Your Brain Lying to You About Wine — The Stanford MRI Experiment Pt. 3
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Your Brain Lying to You About Wine — The Stanford MRI Experiment Pt. 3

Ever wonder why wine tastes better when someone tells you it's expensive? Pricing strategist Claire Wang breaks down the science — and it goes deeper than you think.

Guest: Claire Wang (Pricing Strategist) 

Upcoming Book: The Price of Influence — September

Topics covered:

  • The Stanford/Caltech MRI wine experiment — identical wines, different price tags, measurably different brain activity

  • The "marketing placebo effect" — believing you paid more makes you genuinely enjoy more

  • Journal of Wine Economics blind tasting study: untrained drinkers preferred cheaper wine without context

  • The pricing "sweet spot" — too cheap triggers quality suspicion, too expensive reads as a ripoff

  • Why wine never speaks for itself — storytelling as a sales and perception tool

  • How knowing the winemaking process increases personal enjoyment

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