Why Being Relaxed Makes Us Spend Too Much Money | Wired Science | Wired.com
[…] subjects who were more relaxed thought less about particulars – the specific cost of the gadget or the dangers of the risky behavior – and more about the abstract pleasures they were trying to purchase.
That’s why people tend to spend too much money when they’re on vacation and get a heart attack when they get their credit card bill back home.
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ayaros reblogged this from gabrielayuso and added:
guilty. i kept a surprisingly accurate mental tab but that didn’t stop me.
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