# endowment effect

> the finding that people are more likely to retain an object they already own than to acquire that same object when they do not own it

**Wikidata**: [Q1340861](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340861)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/endowment-effect


## References

1. [Toward a positive theory of consumer choice. 1980](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=bdff85d6030a5ac71ccd4c49ea66bf882a7d5b02)
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. Quora
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)