I like it when it's sunny.
I like being around smart people.
I like it when my husband brings me coffee in bed.
I like payday.
I like it when people post comments on my blog.
I like presents.
I like surfing and snowboarding.
I like to laugh.
I like getting a pedicure.
I like nice wine.
I am in a good mood today and am grateful there are so many things out there that I like. I notice that a lot of blogs talk about things people don't like (including mind) and I thought it would be a nice change to talk about what I do like.
Of course, this blog isn't just blubbering about what I like. I read an article last week about a study that showed that people rated wine based on the price, rather than the taste. For example, they gave people the same wine but just changed the price. People rated the wine with the higher price as better! The full story is below.
This makes me question some of the things I like. Have I been sucked into a high-price mirage? Can a 20 dollar pedicure really be as pleasurable as a 40 dollar one? Is a Coach purse truly worth more than one from Target? Can I trust my own likes? I think I am going to focus on experiences more than products this year. The experience of riding a wave, of drinking a great cup of coffee (sorry, but the vanilla creamer is worth the price), of watching a sunset, of being with my family. Those are things that are worth it, no matter what the price!
With wines, does price = pleasure?
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University published a recent study showing that people were more likely to prefer a wine they thought was expensive, versus the same wine labeled at a lower price. Even their brains reacted differently; they registered more activity in an area of the brain related to pleasure when they thought they were drinking a $90 bottle of wine than when they drank the same stuff labeled at $10.
But here's the kicker: When they didn't know the price of the wines, they preferred the least-expensive one.
Keep that in mind when you're shopping for wines. Don't automatically equate high price with high quality. It's true that many pricier wines are superb, and that the world's very best wines never cost $5 or $10. But in Consumer Reports blind wine tests, in which our expert testers know neither the label nor the price, some relatively inexpensive wines earn the highest Ratings. Conversely, some $20 or even $30 wines garner mediocre scores.
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2 comments:
I've noticed that too, most blogs do talk about what they don't like (including my own) Thanks for the positive note.
I don't like when people comment on my blog. I disabled it. Maybe it was just the comments that I didn't like. People were offering me their validation and I didn't feel as if I needed it or that it was particularly valuable.
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