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Choice Overload and Decision Fatigue

Author
Alexander Chernev
Published
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://chernev.com/customerscience

This episode discusses how having too many options can lead to choice overload, reducing decision satisfaction and purchase likelihood. It explores strategies for simplifying choices, such as limiting assortments, using defaults, or helping customers clarify preferences. The episode also examines decision fatigue—how mental depletion from repeated decision-making can impair judgment and self-control across contexts.

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