ABSTRACT
In 5 studies, the authors examined people's perceptions of the endowment effect, or the tendency to value an object more once one owns it. In the 1st 2 studies, the authors documented egocentric empathy gaps between owners and buyers regarding the endowment effect: Both owners and buyers overestimated the similarity between their own valuation of a commodity and the valuation of people in the other role. The next 2 studies showed that these empathy gaps may lead to reduced earnings in a market setting. The final study showed that egocentric empathy gaps stem partly from people's misprediction of what their own valuation would be if they were in the other role.
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Attitude , Choice Behavior , Empathy , Self Concept , Social Perception , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , United StatesABSTRACT
In 1988 three families were described in this journal with Fabry's disease, an X-linked recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by the deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A. A fourth family contained four affected men of whom one was unavailable for evaluation. The other three had the same mutation in de alpha-galactosidase gene, notably Gln386Stop, leading to the change of a glutamine codon into a stop codon. Genetic investigation in one of the other families revealed the Met72Arg mutation. The classical symptoms of the disease (angiokeratomata, acroparaesthesias, hypohidrosis and lucid areas in the cornea) are frequently only recognized after a doctor's delay that may be as long as decades. The recognition of this disease is even more important now, as therapeutic possibilities are in sight.
