The price thing is probably a cognitive bias but not really the story thing. People go to a bar for a good time. If you took the time to tell them a story abou

The price thing is probably a cognitive bias but not really the story thing. People go to a bar for a good time. If you took the time to tell them a story about a wine, they probably had a good time hearing about that and were willing to pay to continue participating in that story. I'm laughing that you're citing your philosophy degree and seem to have missed the boat about people searching for meaning in their life, jumping straight to cognitive biases (which aren't even a philosophical subject).