How do Identity, Spirituality, and Life Purpose Interface with Compulsive Buying?
Dr. Kathleen Galek and Ms.Marcela Torres of StoppingOvershopping, LLC are currently conducting a research study among an urban female college […]
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What might your life be like if you gave up shopping for a year? The question may not be your
Money Behaviors, Money Psychology, Retail Psychology
Recommended Reading Green with Envy: Why Keeping Up With The Joneses is Keeping Us In Debt
Haven’t we been taught to believe that envy, the only vice warned against in both the Ten Commandments and the
Compulsive Buying, Online Shopping Addiction
Study Suggests That 5.8% of U.S. Population Are Compulsive Buyers
The results of a long-awaited and large-scale prevalence study were published in the October issue of the American Journal of
Control Shopping, Money Psychology
Recommended Reading: I Want it Now: Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World Donna Bee-Gates (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Scheduled for publication in January (Palgrave Macmillan), Donna Bee-Gates’ I Want It Now: Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World is
Money Behaviors, Money Psychology
Shopping: A National Pastime in Asia
Shopping for shopping’s sake has become a “national pastime” for many Asian countries, a global online survey done by AC
Compulsive Buying, Debt, Money Behaviors
Financial Education in the Workplace
On August 16th, a persuasive online article appeared about the harmful effects that financial stress has in the workplace. Jeffrey
Compulsive Buying, Money Behaviors, Money Psychology
Extreme Overshopping Leads To Legal Troubles
Lisa Walker, 42, of New York City, more commonly known as Antoinette Millard, charged nearly a million dollars of goods
Money Psychology, Retail Psychology
Recommended Reading: Hooked: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume Stephanie Kaza, ed. (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2005)
Buddhism contains some wonderfully apt messages that concern “affluenza” and “luxury fever,” our modern day plagues of materialism and overconsump-tion,
Compulsive Buying, Online Shopping Addiction
Overshopping Goes Increasingly Global
Within the past few years, research and anecdotal reports of compulsive buying in Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Korea,