{"id":10629,"date":"2006-12-07T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/07\/hence-the-usefulness-of-amazon-wish-lists.html"},"modified":"2006-12-07T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T14:30:15","slug":"hence_the_usefulness_of_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/hence_the_usefulness_of_a.html","title":{"rendered":"Hence the usefulness of Amazon wish lists …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People do worse at picking out gifts for others<\/a> the closer they are to them (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n

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Past research has argued that lack of diagnostic information causes this sort of misperception, but Davy Lerouge (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) and Luk Warlop (Katholieke University, Belgium) found that we buy unwanted gifts even when we have plenty of knowledge. In fact, we frequently have the most trouble understanding the tastes of those we know a lot about. Not only do we feel overconfident that we\u2019ll pick something they like, but our tendency to assume that we are extremely similar to the
\nones we love also motivates us to ignore cues that don\u2019t support preconceived notions<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

“Our results suggest that familiarity caused [people] to put an overly heavy weight on pre-stored information,\u201d write the authors. \u201cThe pre-stored information that people possess about their partner is extensive. This elaborate knowledge makes predictors overly confident, such that they do not even attend to product-specific attitude feedback.\u201d <\/p>\n

In fact, the couples who participated in the study (all of whom had been dating for at least six months), were more likely to pay attention to feedback about their partner\u2019s preferences when they were told they were the attitudes of a complete stranger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Margie, I hasten to point out, usually buys gifts I really like. Really, honey! (And she’s always very polite about the gifts I give her. “Just the thing I need, how nice …”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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