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Originally Posted by Dizzy

In decision making theory, Schwartz distinguished to types:
Maximizers and satisfiers. Although people can vary within decisionmaking in these two types, they mostly stick to it.
Maximizers: aims to maxmize his or her outcomes in that domain, desires the know an ultimate amount of information before making the optimal decision.
Satisfier: who chooses to satisfice. The satisficer is looking for something that crosses the threshold of acceptability - something that is good enough.

In studies the following things have been found about maximizers:
- Maximization is correlated with regret, perfectionism and depression.
- Maxmizers are more likely to engage in social comparison, and this effects their mood.
- Maximizers are more regretful and less happy with their consumer decisions than satisfiers.
- Although maximizers may be in general achieve better objective outcomes than satisficers, they are likely to experience these outcomes as worse subjectively.


I think as being an ISTJ I perfectly fit the maximizer description, since I always want to know a full array of options, to buy the best thing out there, choose the best job/study etc. I seldomly regret my purchases though, since I probably buy the best thing outthere, due to extensive research.
How do you guys feel about that? Are ISTJs maximizers? Is this personality bound?

the minimizer does not exist of course ..