Person/Barry Schwartz

• Barry Schwartz

  • American psychologist, emeritus professor of psychology at Swarthmore College.[1]
  • First author of the 2002 paper "Maximizing versus satisficing: happiness is a matter of choice," which measured maximizing as a trait and linked it to lower happiness and more regret: Satis/fice.[2]
  • Wrote Barry Schwartz/Book/2004/The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, which argues that an excess of choice harms well-being.[1]

  • Footnotes

    • [1] https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/resources/books/the-paradox-of-choice-why-more-is-less-barry-schwartz/

    • [2] https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/101/