I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition.… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I mean we might even go to war as to whether we love Coke or Pepsi and our whole identity is wrapped… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Are you going to be able to shave your legs? Are you going to be able to get married? So it was… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
One day I went to the manager and I asked him whether his model was working and he said, "Well, haven't you… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
This is at a time when you know most of us drank tap water, so I used to go to this store… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“move. For one thing, you’re going to start paying more attention. Yes, perhaps you’ll sometimes have a crazed, wild-eyed look, but that’s a price… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if you give… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I used to go to this store called Draeger's and you had a little bit of that same feeling because this was a store… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
