Understanding Mental Book Value

Exploring Replacement Decisions and Lifetime Expectations

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025-10328

Keywords:

Mental Book Value, Lifetime Expectations, Replacement decisions, Sustainable consumer behavior, Electric appliances

Author Biography

Jelle Thomas Emiel Westervaarder, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

PhD Candidate at TU Delft working on prolonging consumers' expected lifetimes of products in a circular economy.

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24-06-2025

How to Cite

Westervaarder, J. T. E., Mugge, R., Van den Hende, E., & Vock, M. (2025). Understanding Mental Book Value: Exploring Replacement Decisions and Lifetime Expectations. Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025), (6). https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025-10328

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Track 2: Enduring Consumption – Extended Abstracts