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This presumably places anticipation together with excitement and fear -- an aspect of human experience, but not a useful concept for decision theory.
I'm not convinced that "It turns out that pi is in fact greater than three" is a mere aspect of human experience.
If you appeal to intuitions about rigor, it's not so much an outlier since fear and excitement must be aspects of rigorously reconstructed preference as well.