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Behavioral-finance experts say this stems from the “endowment effect”: a psychological bias where we overvalue what we already own and confuse familiarity with financial security.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

She also said they overvalue less-quantifiable perks like exclusive reservations at restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Purplebricks told us it doesn't overvalue properties and that while price reductions were once a target for rewarding staff, that was no longer the case.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

People tend to overvalue the tax break now versus the long-term consequences of a smaller benefit later, she says.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

They’re also more likely to remember true “predictions,” overvalue coincidences, and ignore everything else.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

I treat many adults who have severe eating disorders partly as a result of growing up in a society that overvalues thinness, promotes dieting for weight loss, and shames people who are overweight or obese.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

Data shows the draft value chart developed by Johnson in the early 1990s — which assigns each pick numerical value and is still used leaguewide — overvalues the top 50 picks and undervalues the rest.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2020

State lawmakers might revive a failed 2017 bill to reduced Sound Transit car-tab taxes, which are charged on a depreciation schedule that overvalues newer vehicles.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

One person overvalues himself while, at the same time, devaluing the contributions of others.

From Inc ● Apr. 10, 2013

I think it undervalues gifts and fine achievement, and overvalues the commonplace virtues of mediocre men.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The global race to build data centres hosting AI infrastructure has seen a meteoric rise in the firm's fortunes, despite concern the sector may be overvalued in a market bubble.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

SpaceX’s valuation has been a major point of contention among analysts, some of whom argue that the company was overvalued even before the stock surged soon after its public debut.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

Top Mexican players continue to be overvalued by their home clubs, which makes it difficult for European clubs to sign them when there are cheaper options with more impressive résumés.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

You think low-volatility stocks are an underappreciated hedge against overvalued technology shares?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The Securities and Exchange Commission later said that those figures were “false and misleading,” in part because the sale price for the headquarters had been overvalued by as much as $40 million.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Discovery is overvaluing the global networks business, which is not included in the deal with Netflix, and believes the business may be worth nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Panorama also investigated the online estate agency Purplebricks, after we heard concerns it had been trying to attract sellers by overvaluing properties.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

Instead, those who are most likely to evade detection are the people trying to hide their income in tax shelters, shifting their profits overseas, exaggerating their business deductions, or overvaluing their charitable donations.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025

Elsewhere in the segment, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin poked fun at Trump overvaluing his Mar-a-Lago resort and lying about the size of his three-story Trump Tower penthouse:

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023

It shall seem valour in despising and undervaluing danger; and it is but fear in an overvaluing of opinion and estimation, and a fear of losing that.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne