The bliss of what we never knew
The leap of faith
The sting of the empty space
The trap of comparison
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Master of The grass is always greener and other brain lies
007skaty The Invisible Hand Illusion
Lead: When they stab the empty space Response: (Oh, you feel the panic there)
007skaty Half of the study participants received coffee mugs, triggering the endowment effect as their brains quickly bonded with
007skaty A modern luxury car sits parked inside a garage under dramatic warm spotlighting.
007skaty Compare two different scenes to discover why we only appreciate things once they are gone.
Loss aversion: Neuroimaging shows that losing money activates the amygdala, the brain's fear center, far more intensely than winning the same amount activates reward centers.
The state of being away from a place or companion. Ben Tennyson confronts this silent reality when Jimmy Jones leaves Earth to assist Azmuth.
What happens to a person's baseline happiness over time after experiencing a major positive change?
What economic and psychological theory describes how humans evaluate losses and gains asymmetrically?
What specific everyday object was used in Richard Thaler's famous 1990 experiment on the endowment effect?
According to prospect theory, how much stronger is the psychological pain of losing compared to gaining?
Which researchers coined the term 'hedonic treadmill' in 1971 to describe human adaptation to luxury?
What is the term for valuing an item more highly simply because you already own it?