Eu nu mai am motocicleta.
Am iesit cu baietii.
Uite si ceva sa completeze
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ccryder...snotmiserly.pdf
ABSTRACT—Misery is not miserly: Sadness increases the amount of money that decision makers give up to acquire a
commodity.
In one study, for example, decision makers who received a sadness induction subsequently gave up 30% more money to acquire a commodity than did those who received a neutral induction.
According to these theories, negative moods lead people to globally devalue what they perceive. Such devaluation could appear in contexts such as stock-market decisions or life-satisfaction judgments. Empirically, however, the effects of sadness on buying run counter to the predicted pattern. Even though sadness is negatively valenced, it leads people to increase, rather than decrease, their valuation of commodities that they might purchase.
Self-devaluation, in turn, triggers an implicit desire to enhance the self. Finally, the desire to enhance the self elicits increased valuation of possessions that one might acquire. In sum, we predicted that when self-focus is high, sad individuals
experience an implicit devaluation of the self, which in turn triggers increased valuation of new commodities.
Our working model proposes that sad and self-focused individuals spend more on commodities than other people do
because they seek self-enhancement. Another possible model is that sad and self-focused individuals experience reduced selfvalue or reduced sense of entitlement, and therefore value other things more by contrast.
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