Mental models/Endowment Effect
Motivation & Engagement

Endowment Effect

The tendency for people to ascribe more value to things merely because they own them, discovered by Richard Thaler.

In plain language

People value things more once they own them. Free trials, personalisation, and data investment all create ownership feelings before commitment.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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