More lovely stuff from the Edge Question…
Daniel Gilbert, of Stumbling on Happiness fame changed his mind about changing your mind
“people are generally happier with decisions when they can’t undo them. When subjects in our experiments were able to undo their decisions they tended to consider both the positive and negative features of the decisions they had made, but when they couldn’t undo their decisions they tended to concentrate on the good features and ignore the bad. As such, they were more satisfied when they made irrevocable than revocable decisions. Ironically, subjects did not realize this would happen and strongly preferred to have the opportunity to change their minds”
Silver | 06-Jan-08 at 8:54 am | Permalink
I wonder if this is related to the paradox of choice. When every choice can be revoked it means there is never relief from the descion process. Choices result in more choices. My head is spinning just thinking about it..
admin | 06-Jan-08 at 2:10 pm | Permalink
I started going down that line of thinking and backed out.