Exactly. I’m sure this phenomenon has been studied and documented somewhere but I don’t know what it’s called.
Typically they refer to these as “windfall gains,” and there seems to be significant psychological literature that uses that term.
Ah, yes! I’ll be studying that literature now thanks to you!
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Exactly. I’m sure this phenomenon has been studied and documented somewhere but I don’t know what it’s called.
Typically they refer to these as “windfall gains,” and there seems to be significant psychological literature that uses that term.
Ah, yes! I’ll be studying that literature now thanks to you!