Neural correlates of overvaluation and the effort to save possessions in a novel decision task: An exploratory fMRI study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People exhibit a strong attachment to possessions, observed in behavioral economics through loss aversion using new items in the Endowment or IKEA effects and in clinical psychology through pathological trouble discarding domestic items in Hoarding Disorder. These fields rarely intersect, but both document a reticence to relinquish a possessed item, even at a cost, which is associated with feelings of loss but can include enhanced positive states as well.

Methods

To demonstrate the shared properties of these loss-related ownership effects, we developed the Pretzel Decorating Task (PDT), which concurrently measures overvaluation of one's own over others' items and feelings of loss associated with losing a possession, alongside enhanced positive appraisals of one'

SUBMITTER: Liu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9911144 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature