Hacker News with Generative AI: Behavioral Economics

Endowment Effect (wikipedia.org)
In psychology and behavioral economics, the endowment effect, also known as divestiture aversion, is the finding that people are more likely to retain an object they own than acquire that same object when they do not own it.
Behaviorist Genie (arbital.com)
We avoid effort even though it can improve our well-being (newscientist.com)
Understanding the “effort paradox” can help you reshape your relationship to exertion so that you commit to those hard but truly meaningful activities
The Insidious Elitist Upshot of Behavioral Economics (jacobin.com)
Professional poker players know the optimal strategy but don't always use it (scientificamerican.com)
The asymmetry of nudges (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Perverse Incentive (wikipedia.org)