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The Agony of Perfectionism (Atlantic)

The Agony of Perfectionism (Atlantic)

三月 10, 2014

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean to be a perfectly rational consumer today.

Before buying a fridge, you would have to know the price of every similar fridge in the world; the qualities of every similar fridge; the durability and trustworthiness of every similar fridge; how much it would cost to ship and install every similar fridge; and how much time it would take to obtain that one perfect fridge with the ideal (whatever that means) combination of price, quality, and durability.

Happiness? When It Comes to Rewards, Don't Count On It (WSJ)

三月 15, 2013

By Daniel Akst

Unequal treatment tends to make people unhappy. But unequal rewards make people less unhappy when those rewards can’t be counted.

In a series of nine experiments, mostly involving Chinese volunteers, a pair of researchers found that offering unequal rewards for some arbitrary task—in the form of different sized slices of cake, for example—provoked less dissatisfaction than unequal rewards consisting of money.