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“There is a different attitude about, you know, how much differentiation there needs to be between our options and how many choices do I need to have in order to make a choice.”

Quote by Sheena Iyengar

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Sheena Iyengar is a distinguished professor of business at Columbia University, recognized for her work in behavioral economics. Born on November 29, 1969, she has made significant contributions to our understanding of consumer choice and decision-making processes. more

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“We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.”

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Author:Sheena Iyengar

“Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different biases, particularly if what you're deciding is something that you really, that expertise can be brought to bear on it, there is a way in which you can align the odds, so then you should really use reason.”

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“About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition. So that means the chess master or someone who has really thought about it and given themselves feedback on a particular activity for at least 10,000 hours or more.”

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“In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.”

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“About the only question that we would say and this is a big one in our lives that we would say you don't just use pure reason to decide the answer to is anything that affects your happiness, because then gut and reason answer very different questions. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?"”

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Author:Sheena Iyengar

“So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?" It doesn't tell me how I feel about it tomorrow or even a few minutes from now. It just tells me how I'm feeling right now.”

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Author:Sheena Iyengar

“So for decisions about happiness you essentially need at least both and probably even more than that, you probably also need to do analysis that doesn't involve yourself to get at the answer of what will make you happy in 10 years.”

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“What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.”

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“I've done a number of studies with speed dating and Match.com and what's interesting is that you know we still walk into a speed dating event, you know, thinking about what it is we're looking for in a mate and so you ask people, like women will say "I'm looking for somebody who is really kind and sincere and smart and funny."”

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Author:Sheena Iyengar

“And guys will say looks matter, but they'll also say things like "Well, she should be smart and kind." And you know those are... so the typical responses and if you give them just a few options, like five or six, then they will rate them on the very characteristics that they said were really important to them.”

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Author:Sheena Iyengar