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From: "Sampo Syreeni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:33 PM
Subject: [armchair] Re: Too many choices
Schwartz's Parade article does not provide enough information for analysis,
but is this a
On 2004-01-06, Fred Foldvary uttered:
>> He says that as the number of choices we have grows (for products) we
>> become less happy,
>
>Is he just guessing, or is there evidence for this?
I seem to have heard of some controlled experiments to this effect, in the
psychological literature, so I thi
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> He says that as the number of choices we have grows (for products) we
> become less happy,
Is he just guessing, or is there evidence for this?
> that it is too hard to know which toothpaste, for example, to buy.
That seems ridiculous. People tend to settle on one
In a message dated 1/4/04 2:55:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>The number of people describing themselves as very happy has declined
>5% in the last 30 years. We are also more depressed than we used to be.
The growing social acceptance of depression might well explain the reported
change. Thir
This week's edition of Parade Magazine has an article by Barry Schwartz, author of the book "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less." He is a professor of psychology at Swarthmore.
He says that as the number of choices we have grows (for products) we become less happy, that it is too hard to k
