SciShow Psych: Why More Choices Don't Make You Happy

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: We're surrounded by choices in life, but psychologists have found that having those choices doesn't necessarily make us happy. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-16701-012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.007 https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/resources/mini-encyclopedia-of-be/choice-overload/


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