Barry Schwartz

Person · Open Library

Born

1946

Works

34

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1981-07-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,205

Total plays

3,435

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: Revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1)

   · 2009 · cited 25,066x

2. One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in <i>Escherichia coli</i> K-12 using PCR products

   · 2000 · cited 14,093x

3. <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations

   · 1983 · cited 13,595x

4. Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions

   · 2001 · cited 11,540x

5. Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

   · 2008 · cited 11,229x

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Quotes

• “When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable. As the number of available choices increases... the autonomy, control and liberation... are powerful and positive. But as the number of choices keeps growing, negative aspects... begin to appear. As the... choices grow further, the negatives escalate until we become overloaded. At this point, choice no longer liberates, but debilitates. It might even be said to tyrannize.”
• “[I]ncreased choice among goods and services may contribute little or nothing to the kind of freedom that counts. ...[I]t may impair freedom by taking time and energy we'd be better off devoting to other matters.”
• “We would be better off if we embraced certain voluntary constraints on our freedom of choice... better off seeking what was "good enough" instead of... best... better off if we lowered our expectations... if... decisions were nonreversable... if we paid less attention to what others around us were doing.”
• “Americans spend more time shopping than the members of any other society. ...more often than they go to houses of worship, and Americans now have more shopping centers than high schools. ...[P]eople are shopping more now but enjoying it less.”
• “A large array of options may discourage customers because it forces an increase in the effort that goes into making the decision. ...[T]hinking about the attractions of some of the unchosen options detracts from the pleasure derived from the chosen one.”
• “Filtering out extraneous information is one of the basic functions of our consciousness.”

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