and Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
is an advisor to the site. I went over to the blog to take a look and found a good post there on how to give holiday shopping stress the heave-ho. The post describes those who are satisficers --where one buys things that are "good enough" and maximizers--who are always looking for "the best." Guess which person is happier? The satisficers and maximizers are from the research of Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less.
Here is a quick video of Dr. Seligman explaining the problem of holiday gift giving: