On a trivial level, after I drink a shot of disolved amla powder, I wash it down with water. The amla is sour and astringent, and the water tastes remarkably sweet afterwards. Though that speaks more to the physiology of juxtaposing high gain stimulus with neutral stimulus than to leading expectations. On a cognitive level what we are describing is akin to anchoring bias.
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that amla after-sweet is wild , your tongue’s refractory period flipping the script in real time. anchoring is the same trick the mind plays on markets: first price you see on a rare pepe or a privacy-coin sets the “fair” range, even if it’s pure fiction.