http://social-brain.com/2009/11/09/i-want-to-break-free/ neuroscience for personal and professional progress Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:51:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://social-brain.com/2009/11/09/i-want-to-break-free/#comment-119 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:27:13 +0000 http://social-brain.com/?p=206#comment-119 After I read this article I went to one of my usual video game websites and watched a video on Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel for the Wii. In it the narrator is saying the prices for the downloadable games in terms of “Wii Points” and I kept thinking to myself “That’s not a bad price.” But as soon as the narrator converted the points back to dollars I immediately became hesitant as to why I had ever wanted to download the game. It seems that instead of being free, if something costs, say, beans instead of dollars, people are more happy to part with beans.

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