> That's like saying "choose a cup with your left or right hand -- if you choose correctly with your left hand, you get $5, and if you choose correctly with you

> That's like saying "choose a cup with your left or right hand -- if you choose correctly with your left hand, you get $5, and if you choose correctly with your right hand, you get $6". Everyone would use their right hands. From the article it seems that placing the chosen cup in front of the subject, to make it feel like they "own it", is an important part of the experiment.