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And more choices mean less satisfaction. For example, if you give people more chocolate bars to choose from, the story tells us, they think the one they choose
by ScottBurson 14y ago
And more choices mean less satisfaction. For example, if you give people more chocolate bars to choose from, the story tells us, they think the one they choose tastes worse than a control group who had a smaller selection.
Huh. It's the opposite for me -- the more possibilities I can check out, the better I feel about my choice in the end. (Maybe that's one reason I didn't marry until age 42 :-) HN readers -- do you agree with this study, or not?
- jvm 14y agoThe study didn't find that this was true in every case. It found that it was more often true than false in the task that they chose. I'm not totally up on this literature but I'm fairly sure that it's been replicated repeatedly in a variety of domains.
- ScottBurson 14y agoOh, I don't doubt that it's true of most people. I'm interested in the next question: are there interesting characteristics shared by people that this isn't true of?