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Everything's Psychology
Chatting with incredible minds about the psychology of our everyday world.
Join Paul Davies, behavioural psychologist, as chats with guests about the mechanisms of human behaviour and the motivations behind people’s actions.
Everything's Psychology
Bias: Choice Overload
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Something different for Christmas. I share a short story based on a behavioural bias.
This week, the story is called Spaghetti Sauce and is about choice overload. Choice is a paradox. We convince ourselves that we want it, and certainly rebel when it’s taken away from us, but when we get too much of it, we regularly struggle to make a choice. This story follows a young girl in Atlanta as she struggles with the choices of daily life, with dire consequences.
Spaghetti Sauce was written by me, Paul Davies, and forms part of a book I'm writing called ‘Bias: Twelve Tales of Influence’.
Would I love your feedback? Hmm? If it's positive or constructive, then I think so. If you don't like it, that's of course fine, but please keep it to yourself and don't break the little writing confidence I have.
More interview episodes will be coming in the New Year.
You can watch the video of this episode on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingsPsychology
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