Will economic uncertainty make you save more — or spend more? The answer may depend on your childhood experience, a new …
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For Love and Money: Why Men Spend More When Women Are Few
When women are in short supply, they expect men to pay more for engagement rings, dinner dates and Valentine’s Day gifts.
It’s True: We Shop Till it Hurts
Feel like going out to dinner at that trendy new spot but can’t justify paying $120 for the tasting menu everyone’s talking about? Then take a date, spend twice as much and call it an investment in the relationship. There, that …
How Retail Therapy Works: Spending Money for Social Acceptance
It was a pattern that Nicole Mead had seen over and over. Her friends would break up with their romantic partners and then go on a shopping spree to compensate: break up and buy, break up and buy, break up and buy. As a marketing …