The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was… — 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
Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining… — 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
When I was in Russia I found that I thought I was going to give these people that I was interviewing a… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First,… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“when people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The first thing we looked at, in what case were people more likely to be attracted to the jar or jam, so… — 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
As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think… — 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
About 60% of the people stopped when we had 24 jams on display and then at the times when we had 6… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
They [people] start asking themselves "Well which one is the best? Which one would be good for me?" And all those questions… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
People were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
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… — 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
People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
We began to look at "Why is that?" And a large part of that has to do with the fact that when… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others’ lives through observation,… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
In fact, even in that store Draeger's they had 348 different kinds of jam actually in the jam aisle. And what we… — 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