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Buyer Protection Program · Huge Savings · Huge Selection · Buy It Now AvailablePopular Links: Colorado · Rapala · Cuba · Mexico · DAVIDOFF · Books · Latina · Zara · Radio. Shop stocking stuffers · Explore top giftsService Catalog: Travel, Test Preparation, New Releases, Pharmacy and more. Choice is essential to autonomy, which is absolutely fundamental to well-being. Healthy people want and need to direct their own lives. On the other hand, the fact that some choice is good . In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice--the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish--becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. The Paradox of Choice investigates the counterintuitive effect of having too many choices: it’s not true that choices necessarily free us, but they can also paralyze us and make us unhappier. When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable. As the number of available choices increases, as it has in our consumer culture, the autonomy, control, and liberation this va-riety brings is powerful and positive. But as the number of choices keeps growing, negative aspects of having a multitude of options begin to appear. The Paradox of Choice investigates the counterintuitive effect of having too many choices: it’s not true that choices necessarily free us, but they can also paralyze us and make us unhappier. This chapter argues that choice, and with it freedom, autonomy, and self- determination, can become excessive, and that when that happens, freedom can be experienced as a kind of misery-inducing tyranny. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You switched accounts on another tab or window.
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