choice (psychology)

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choice (psychology)

The paradox of choice

why more is less
2004
Explains how an abundance of choice can become detrimental to a person's psychological and emotional well-being, discussing how a recent explosion in choice in all aspects of society has become a problem instead of a solution.

Making smart choices

2013
Provides information to help children make smart choices for good health and safety.

The fate of the Willow Queen

2014
The Crows offer Faerie princess Soli a choice between saving her lifelong friend Lucy or her mother, but treachery is present whatever she chooses.

At the edge

daring acts in desperate times
2009
Shares twenty true stories of people who were forced to make critical decisions in circumstances that may have resulted in their own deaths or the death of others.

Why choose this book?

how we make decisions
2006
Examines how people make decisions, revealing the physical, emotional, and social factors that influence people's everyday choices.

No! Yes!

2006
As he gets up in the morning and goes to school, a boy alternates between saying "yes" and "no" to everything he is asked.

Winter games

2009
When Tori's parents allow her to invite five Lakeview girls on a California ski trip over President's Weekend, she agonizes over how to tell the others they cannot come, then learns that the camp reunion is scheduled for the same weekend.

At the edge

daring acts in desperate times
2010
Presents twenty-two stories that relate the real, life-threatening situations faced by children, men, and women, describing their decisions in the face of the Holocaust, the 2004 tsunami in Asia, Chernobyl, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, Tiananmen Square, and more.

You

2012
Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.

Weight

2005
The author examines loneliness, isolation, freedom, and responsibility through a retelling of the classic Greek mythological story of Atlas's punishment and temporary relief when Heracles takes the world off his shoulders.

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