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Train Your Brain to Spend Smarter: A Chat With BeyondThePurchase.org
A few months ago Linda Lombardi, a writer for the website Learnvest, asked us if she could conduct a Q & A to learn how our research helps people spend and save their money in ways that result in the most happiness. While … Continue reading
How can I Reduce my Compulsive Spending Habits?
Last week I wrote about how a lack of money management predicts individuals’ compulsive spending, regardless of their personality, gender, age, and income. These results were based on a study (Sadness, Identity, and Plastic in Over-shopping) published in the Journal of Economic Psychologywhich was conducted with two students of mine former … Continue reading
Are You a Happy Shopper? Research Website Helps You Find out
Psychologists have found that buying life experiences makes people happier than buying possessions, but who spends more of their spare cash on experiences? We now know that extraverts and people who are open to new experiences tend to spend more of … Continue reading
Posted in Research Findings
Tagged disposable income, excitement, experience shopper, experiential purchases, extravert, feelings of happiness, happiness, life experiences, life satisfaction, material things, openness, personality profile, personality traits, shopping habits, tony hsieh, zappos
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Purchasing Experiences Can Produce Emotional Benefits
Typically, amazement is what motivates people to alter their understanding of the world and awe brings people’s attention to the present moment and alters their subjective time experience. Awe is a sense of perceptual vastness (physical or conceptual). Because of this, the … Continue reading
Posted in Quality of Life, Research Findings
Tagged amazement, awe, generosity, happiness, jennifer aaker, kathleen vohs, melanie, perception of time, personal experience, present moment, rudd, self care, social behaviors, subjective time, tendencies, time experience, time perception, video clip, volunteer role, what motivates people
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Sunshine on my portfolio makes me happy
There are armies of very smart, very well educated, numbers- and facts-focused people on Wall Street and in other stock exchanges around the globe. The sharpest minds from the best schools compete at the highest levels for any advantage at … Continue reading
