sixes_and_sevens comments on Behavioral psychology and buying a warranty at Menards - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 16 November 2011 10:45:49AM *  1 point [-]

I'm pretty sure the feeling of being a chump (for me at least) is a social response to someone having gotten more out of you than you needed to give them, rather than a response to being unhappy with the exchange.

I sometimes get it when I retrospectively discover I paid more for something than I needed to, but it's at its strongest when there's an actual agent involved who I can point to and say "you, you took more money from me than you needed to, you scoundrel!" If I buy something online, when I could've gotten it somewhat cheaper on a different site, I just shrug it off.