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November 2009 meeting: Choice – Too much of a good thing?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 – 19H00-21H30 at KPMG
What are your plans for next Tuesday evening? You could go to the WPNG meeting, or stay at home and watch a movie, or catch up on emails, or get some work done …
Every day, we make dozens, if not hundreds, of choices. This proliferation of choices is generally seen as a sign of progress. Choice, after all, allows each of us to decide how best to live our lives – choosing jazz over pop, law over medicine, or Evian over Volvic. Recent research from the behavioral and decision sciences has shown, however, that although some choice is good, more is not better. Too many choices, in too many areas, can have detrimental effects on our well-being. Choice overload can lead to anticipated regret, decision paralysis, and decreased satisfaction. This presentation will discuss this research and suggest some initial steps each of us can take to avoid becoming overwhelmed by choice.
Evie Rosset is a behavioral scientist interested in bringing research out of the lab and into the real world. She earned her PhD from Boston University, where she is an adjunct professor. In France she continues to do research through affiliations with the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Université Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble. She recently created Aboutmind, an educational organization that gives workshops and seminars to schools and businesses to help them benefit from research in the brain and behavioral sciences.
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