What is the Inaction Inertia Effect? - Deepstash

What is the Inaction Inertia Effect?

The Inaction Intertia Effect states that when users don't take an opportunity to gain value or accept an offer, they are less likely to get it the second time.

This could be related to the Cognitive Dissonance theory, which states that users want their actions to be consistent with what they already did.

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