Benjamin Felix
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5,821 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Benjamin Felix’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They wanted to upgrade their seats to the lie flat business class seats and their spouse just wouldn't do it.
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They can afford it.
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It's no problem, whatever, but they just wouldn't do it because they can't bring themselves to spend the money.
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I think that's a good example.
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content.
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That shows up a ton in the happiness literature.
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The effects of social comparison are unequivocally horrific for happiness.
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Yeah.
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We're getting a little bit sidetracked here, which is fine.
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But back to how this relates to marriage.
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So we've got these tightwads and we've got these spendthrifts.
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The evidence here gets quite interesting.
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Tightwads and spendthrifts are more likely to marry each other
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than to marry a tightwad or another spendthrift.
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So if you're a tightwad, you're more likely to marry a spendthrift is what their research showed, at least in the sample that they had studied there.
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So it's kind of like we hear opposites attract, but I think the findings may be a little bit counterintuitive when you consider that in reality, people do tend to find spouses who share some characteristics, which without seeing the research, you might expect that to include spending tendencies, but
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The research shows the opposite, which I guess is why it was an interesting finding.
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They do suggest a couple of reasons for the disconnect or for why opposites attract.
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People tend to have poor introspective awareness of what they'll actually find attractive when encountering real potential partners.
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And when tightwads and spendthrifts encounter similar behaviors to their own in others, they
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