The endowment effect is the tendency:

A. to place a higher value on something a person already owns simply because they own it.
B. to have a harder time parting with wealth people have held the longer the amount of time they hold it.
C. for a person to believe they hold a particular skill because someone told them they do.
D. for people to want to bestow their own beliefs on others when making decisions.


A. to place a higher value on something a person already owns simply because they own it.

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