Thank you! Very excited to welcome the psychologist Dr. Barry Schwartz to the podcast today. I first spoke with Barry for this piece I wrote for the Times and loved him , and was super grateful when he agreed to speak again for the Maybe Baby podcast. Barry is famous for his research on choice especially how, at a certain point, freedom of choice increases anxiety , but his work touches so many related topics, like luck, justice, and politics.
His most recent research is on how we respond when we believe our choices reflect who we are as people. In this conversation we touch on: comparison culture on social media, class differences when it comes to choice, the benefits and perils of individualism, political in-fighting, choice feminism lol , dating and marriage!
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