1. Monkey Business( a short story about loss aversion and theendowmenteffect ) Haakon Spilde (hfs@knowit.no) XP2010 Trondheim
2. References M. Keith Chen, VenkatLakshminarayanan and Laurie Santos. âHow Basic Are Behavioral Biases? Evidence from Capuchin Monkey Trading BehaviorâJournal of Political Economy, 2006, vol. 114, no. 3 Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch and Richard H. Thaler. âAnomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion and Status Quo Biasâ, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991, vol. 5, no. 1
3. Loss Aversion The asymmetry between the evaluation of gains and losses
7. Skilled tool users A single alpha-male and several sub-alpha-males and females normally live together, with the alpha-male holding sexual monopoly over the females within the group
11. Endowmenteffect The asymmetry between the amount that a given individual would like to pay for a certain good and the amount that this individual would like to accept to sell the same good.
12. A few ideas on situations in software development where this knowledge may be useful
15. âIf you want to add this feature, you have to remove anotherâ
16. This implies giving one banana back. Also the one being given back is worth more.
17. Development in iterations and detailing as late as possible are ways to decrease the impact of loss aversion and the endowment effect.
18. Less likely you have to give bananas back and you are making sure that only a few bananas are given at a time.
Hinweis der Redaktion
Two persons, A and B, sellingfruit to themonkeyExperiment 1: A always displays one piece offruit, butsometimesadds an extra pieceB always displays two pieces offruit, butsometimesremovesoneofthemResult:Subjectsprefer A Theyprefer bonus over loss
Experiment 2:A always displays one piece offruit and gives itB always displays two pieces offruit, butalwaysremovesoneResults: Subjectsprefer A B was a âsure lossâ
