In a small office, Chidubem puts a surprise present for Priya in the break room before anyone else arrives, with a note that says "For Priya, enjoy!". Meanwhile, Emiko, who is Priya's good friend, is aware that Chidubem wanted to surprise Priya today but didn't see Chidubem putting the present in the break room. When Priya arrives, she goes straight to her desk without noticing the present. Later, Kendall arrives and sees the present. Kendall reads the note but does not tell Priya about it and leaves the break room. Later that day, Emiko sees Priya and tells her that Chidubem planned a surprise. Without checking the break room, Priya thanks Emiko and texts Chidubem to say thank you for the flowers he left her. If Priya later goes to the break room and finds the present, why would she be surprised to see that it was not flowers?

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Priya would be surprised because, based on Emiko's statement that Chidubem planned a surprise, she formed an expectation that the surprise involved flowers. This expectation was likely influenced by the prior knowledge that Emiko had about the planned surprise and the common association of flowers with surprises. Since Emiko did not specify the nature of the surprise, and Priya did not go to the break room to check before texting Chidubem, her only source of information about the surprise was the text she received from Emiko. Therefore, she inferred that the surprise was probably something Emiko didn't know had already been placed. The confirmation bias led her to assume Chidubem's surprise was flowers, which is a culturally common surprise gift. When Priya texted Chidubem thanking him for the flowers, she did so under this mistaken assumption. Upon discovering the present in the break room and seeing that it was not flowers, her surprise stems from the inconsistency between her expectations and reality.