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Compensating emotions

The choices we make reveal that we are sometimes quite content to make material sacrifices for emotional utility, and indeed to accept material compensation for emotional damage. But how far can we go in this?

Koen Smets
6 min readOct 30, 2020

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“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”, Mary Poppins used to sing

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Koen Smets

Accidental behavioural economist in search of wisdom. Uses insights from (behavioural) economics in organization development. On Twitter as @koenfucius