IKEA Effect

Helping create or build something changes how a person values the situation or product above just owning it. When we build something, we tend to think it is worth more and we are more invested in it.

Applications

• Consider how you can involve communities in creating and building products and systems instead of dropping in a top-down solution.

• Consider if there is a way to engage individuals in putting together their own behaviors or treatment plan to get to the desired outcome.

Considerations

Valuing something more just because you own it is the endowment effect.