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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Could suck balls and you will probably think it is great! You bought it and have to justify it to yourself. Just the way the mind works.
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As a marketing PhD student, I agree that this is usually true.
coping skills.
but cognitive dissonance persists, even if we don't express it...
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Tcoat and others, interestingly enough, we have a lot of research (and I did some of my own to recreate it in a more recent setting) that shows that the more alternatives and info/opinions you seek out in a given purchase, the less sure of you will be of your choice. There is a point, of course, because if you make a decision without some info on how it works, you can't use it, but after that....you're just hurting yourself.