The paradox of choice

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Barry Schwartz

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TEDGlobal 2005

• July 2005

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

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