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summer edited the memorable quotes of The Paradox of Choice Wednesday, March 6, 2013.
- Added a quotation: “Faced with this inevitable disapointment, what do people do? Some simply give up the chase and stop valuing pleasure derived from things. Most are driven instead to pursue novelty, to seek out new commodities and experiences whose pleasure potential has not been dissipated by repeated exposure. In time, these new commodities also will lose their intensity, but people still get caught up in the chase, a process that psychologists Phillip Brickman and Donald Campbell labelled the hedonic treadmill. No matter how fast you run on this kind of machine, you still don't get anywhere. And because of adaptation, no matter how good your choices and how pleasurable the results, you still end up back where you started in terms of subjective experience.”
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Timothy Gray edited the memorable quotes of The Paradox of Choice Monday, May 31, 2010.
- Added a quotation: “Now students are required to make choices about education that may affect them for the rest of their lives. And they are forced to make these choices at a point in their intellectual development when they may lack the resources to make them intelligently.”Barry Schwartz
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