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Humans find many creative ways to manage our emotions.
- Why?
- Mood repair
- Mood maintenance
- to manipulate ourselves into performing better (maybe)
- How?
- Psychologists have a lot of evidence about what works better or worse, but in CB there is
- Consuming emotions (to produce the desired state)
- “Retail therapy” (streams of goal achievement and a sense of control
- Impulsive buying can be enjoyable
- Compulsive buying is a trait where it reaches a destructive level in some people
- Self-gifts (often carefully thought out to be personally symbolic)
- Psychologists have a lot of evidence about what works better or worse, but in CB there is