Discover and Value Your Unique Spirit: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing To Waste (Part VI)
This is the last of six posts (scroll down to see all of my previous posts) on how overshoppers can […]
Compulsive Buying, Mastering Your Emotions
Control Shopping, Money Psychology
Use Your Emotions and Intellect to Access “True Wealth”: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing To Waste (Part V)
In this series of posts, we’ve been exploring ways to seize the opportunity that the economic crisis emotions and intellect
Control Shopping
See and Hear Your Way to Solvency: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing To Waste (Part IV)
In this series of postings, we’ve been coloring the landscape of self-kindness, examining healthier alternatives to shopping. The catalyst for
Compulsive Buying, Mastering Your Emotions
Using Your Senses to Save: A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste (Part III)
We’ve been exploring the centrality of self-kindness to the process of stopping overshopping. It’s the all-important lubricant that keeps the
Compulsive Buying, Mastering Your Emotions
Activities to Reduce Your Need to Shop: A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste (Part II)
In my last posting, I introduced the idea that the current downturn might just be a tipping point for overshoppers,
Control Shopping
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How the Recession Can Help Overshoppers
“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good” says a familiar proverb, and as with most proverbs, there’s a nugget
Compulsive Buying
Current Research
Astrid Müller, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher from Erlangen University in southern Germany, has been studying compulsive buying for the past
Compulsive Buying, Money Behaviors, Money Psychology, Retail Psychology
Consumer Behavior: Messages into the Void?
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Viking, 2009) . An old philosopher’s question asks: “If a tree falls in the forest
Money Behaviors
Credit Card Act of 2009
On May 20th, Congress passed the Credit Card Act of 2009, which offers some long overdue protections to consumers. New
Mastering Your Emotions, Money Behaviors, Money Psychology
Women’s Spending Behavior Linked to Their Menstrual Cycles
In a study that applies to some 40% of all overshoppers, spending behavior has been demonstrably linked to menstrual cycles.