Thursday, October 10, 2013

Choice Overload (Day 11)

Schedule

8:00-9:15 Motivation lecture
11:00-12:15 Psychopharmacology lecture
2:00-3:15 Cognitive neuroscience lecture
3:30-5:30 Work

In my motivation lecture, we learned about a phenomenon called choice overload. It refers to the demotivating behavior caused by the presence of too many choices...

Student: Is that like... when I have so much homework that I don't even want to start?

Professor: Exactly! You think, "Well, I have eight-hundred things to do and all of them sound really hard, so I am not going to do any of them!"

Spot on, Professor. Spot on.

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