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A simple cued-approach training procedure can bias economic choices toward specific goods. It appears to work by drawing overt attention toward trained items, scaling up their judged value.

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Figure 1: An analogy in which a decision maker's subjective evaluation of an item is represented by the size of the shadow the item casts.

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