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Today you learn about why having too many choices stresses us out,

how wormholes might cast a visible shadow and an adorable test that measures

how well children understand the rules of language.

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Having too many choices stresses us out and new research shows why from a physiological point of view

there is definitely such a thing as too much choice. You know what I'm talking about you walk into the store and you just want like a thing of ice tea or something and there are 45 brands of ice tea

Well, yeah and you and I were in New York this last week and when we would try to choose a restaurant looking up on

yelp there are all these restaurants with like four and half stars how do you make a

choice yeah and it turns out we're not the only ones that feel overwhelmed sometimes.

As reported by the conversation,

research from July 2019 looked at what happens to our bodies

when we're making decisions.

And the results are a little concerning.

Plenty of previous research has shown that too much choice can lead to things like decision

paralysis or dissatisfaction or just plain old regret.

But it wasn't clear what people were actually experiencing physically

when they were in the middle of making decisions.

So a team of researchers from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York,

set out to discover whether people genuinely feel confident about their ability to make a good decision.

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