Mental models/Scarcity Principle
Behavioral & Decision Making

Scarcity Principle

Robert Cialdini's principle that people assign more value to opportunities when they are rare or becoming less available.

In plain language

Limited availability increases perceived value. "Only 3 left" works because scarcity signals that others want it too.

In the wild

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

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