Book Summary and Reviews of The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

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"Starred Review. [A] delightful, astonishing take on the pitfalls of making up one's mind." - Publishers Weekly

"A lucid work of popular science written by an accomplished practitioner." - Kirkus Reviews

"No one asks better questions, or comes up with more intriguing answers." - Malcolm Gladwell

"Sheena Iyengar's work on choice and how our minds deal with it has been groundbreaking, repeatedly surprising, and enormously important. She is someone we need to listen to." - Atul Gawande, author of Better and Complications

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Sheena Iyengar

Sheena Iyengar's groundbreaking research on choice has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Security Education Program. She holds degrees from UPenn, The Wharton School of Business, and Stanford University. She is a professor at Columbia University, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award. Her work is regularly cited in periodicals as diverse as Fortune and Time magazines, the NYT and the WSJ, in books such as Blink and The Paradox of Choice.

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