Tips for Healthy Grocery Shopping
Healthy grocery shopping is not only about counting calories and checking food labels, but about selecting fresh and seasonal foods and cooking them right.
Healthy grocery shopping is not only about counting calories and checking food labels, but about selecting fresh and seasonal foods and cooking them right.
‘The results of the study can help bring to the awareness of retailers that deal susceptibility runs in families, and might suggest using parent-child, grandparent, or other family settings in communicating deals.’
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Past research has indicated that, to some degree, people become deal prone through being taught by their parents. But a new paper, "Born to Shop? A Genetic Component of Deal Proneness," published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, provides evidence that our genes also play a role in causing bargain-hunting enthusiasm.To demonstrate this genetic factor, authors Robert Schindler, Vishal Lala, and Jeanette Taylor compared the deal-proneness similarity among 78 pairs of identical (monozygotic) twins with that among 43 pairs of fraternal (dizygotic) twins reared together. They measured interest in various types of deals, like promotions that involve discounts (e.g., "Receiving cash rebates makes me feel good") and promotions that involve bonuses (e.g., "I enjoy buying products that come with a free gift"). The results indicated that 70 percent of the variability in deal proneness is associated with variability in genetic factors.
"The greater deal-proneness similarity among identical twins than among fraternal twins provides strong evidence for the existence of a heritable component to deal proneness," the authors write. However, the fraternal twins who lived together did show more similarity in deal proneness than those who did not live together, which the authors note is evidence that it's not all heredity - shared experience also is a source of deal proneness.
Keep Calm at Christmas / 11 Ways to Reduce Holiday Stress
Christmas’s emphasis on sharing and loved ones makes it special, but it also makes it harder for some. Depression at Christmas time has become increasingly problematic but can be easily kept at bay.
Christmas’s emphasis on sharing and loved ones makes it special, but it also makes it harder for some. Depression at Christmas time has become increasingly problematic but can be easily kept at bay.
Future research that will help answer this question may also guide us to a deeper understanding of the sources of consumers' often striking enthusiasm for retail bargains.
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Depressed, Self-conscious Women are Prone to Shopping Addiction
Neurotic people, who typically are anxious, depressive, and self-conscious, may use shopping as an excuse to stay away from their negative feelings.
Neurotic people, who typically are anxious, depressive, and self-conscious, may use shopping as an excuse to stay away from their negative feelings.
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Using Mobile Phones While Shopping may Lead to Unplanned Purchases
People who use their smartphones while shopping at a store are more likely to make unplanned purchases and forget things they had planned to buy, finds a new study.
People who use their smartphones while shopping at a store are more likely to make unplanned purchases and forget things they had planned to buy, finds a new study.
