shminux comments on How To Have Things Correctly - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Alicorn 17 October 2012 06:10AM

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Comment author: gwern 16 October 2012 06:04:31PM *  43 points [-]

Better reading: "If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right", Dunn et al 2011, Journal of Consumer Psychology

Comment author: shminux 16 October 2012 06:21:09PM 2 points [-]

participants who knew they could exchange their poster anytime were deprive of this emotional benefit of commitment

Cognitive dissonance FTW. "I cannot return it, so I better enjoy it!"