Hah! First I convince my wife that “talking about it only makes it worse” (though she forced me to amend my generalization to “goal-less talking about it”) but now some scientists, somewhere are saying that thinking about things yields worse decisions. The money line:
[F]or complex choices, once you have done a certain amount of thinking to gather relevant information, further thinking is counterproductive.
I love it! Read the rest of this popularization of complex and subtle psychological research at the Boston Globe online: Thought for thinkers – The Boston Globe
Hey sis – think you could dig up the full study for me?
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