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Re:Unfolding the IKEA Effect: Why We Love the Things We Build by marknutter on Friday September 23, 2011 @09:35AM (#3029903)
This may actually be an obsessive compulsive effect.
Re:Unfolding the IKEA Effect: Why We Love the Things We Build by marekmroz on Monday September 26, 2011 @09:30AM (#3038799)
I don't think it is. To me the frustration stems from having to put in my time and effort into putting a piece of furniture together only to have it turn out not quite as expected because of forces beyond my control such as sloppiness of the drill operator/machinery (holes drilled in wrong place anyone?).