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  1. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    WE'VE SEEN THAT AS THE NUMBER OF OPTIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION goes up and the attractive features associated with the rejected alternatives accumulate, the satisfaction derived from the chosen alternative will go down.
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  2. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    Bottom line-the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options."
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  3. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    Both books point out how the growth of material affluence has not brought with it an increase in subjective well-being. But they go further. Both books argue that we are actually experiencing a fairly significant decrease in well-being.
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  4. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    The choice of when to be a chooser may be the most important choice we have to make.
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  5. Tom Butler-Bowdon _ 50 Psychology Classics: Who We

    Barry Schwartz's distinction between maximizers and satisficers has given us the counterintuitive insight that restricting our choices in life can actually lead to greater happiness and satisfaction, and
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  6. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    Quite apart from the instrumental benefits of choice-that it enables people to get what they want-and the expressive benefits of choice-that it enables people to say who they are-choice enables people to be actively and effectively engaged in the world, with profound psychological benefits.
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  7. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    Seligman's discovery of learned helplessness has had a monumental impact in many different areas of psychology. Hundreds of studies leave no doubt that we can learn that we don't have control.
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  8. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    will argue that: We would be better off if we embraced certain voluntary constraints on our freedom of choice, instead of rebelling against them. We would be better off seeking what was "good enough" instead of seeking the best {have you ever heard a parent say, "I want only the 'good enough' for my kids"?}. We would be better off if we lowered our expectations about the results of decisions. We would be better off if the decisions we made were nonreversible. We would be better off if we paid less attention to what others around us were doing.
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  9. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    Over two centuries ago Adam Smith observed that individual freedom of choice ensures the most efficient production and distribution of society's goods. A competitive market, unhindered by the government and filled with entrepreneurs eager to pinpoint consumers' needs and desires, will be exquisitely responsive to them.
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  10. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    CHOICE HAS A CLEAR AND POWERFUL INSTRUMENTAL VALUE; IT enables people to get what they need and want in life.
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  11. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    At present, the potential causal role that the availability of choice has in making people into maximizers is pure speculation. If the speculation is correct, we ought to find that in cultures in which choice is less ubiquitous and extensive than it is in the U.S., there should be fewer maximizers.
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  12. Barry Schwartz _ The Paradox of Choice: Why

    While maximizers and perfectionists both have very high standards, I think that perfectionists have very high standards that they don't expect to meet, whereas maximizers have very high standards that they do expect to meet. Which may explain why we found that those who score high on perfectionism, unlike maximizers, are not depressed, regretful, or unhappy.
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