Screen LibraryThe interdisciplinary science of consumption /
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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| Published: |
MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts: |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262027670 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0262027674 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HF5415 |
| CLC: | F713.55 |
| Call Number: | F713.55/I611 |
| Contents: |
Reciprocity in primates / The fundamental motives for why we buy / The evolutionary instincts of Homo consumericus / Myopia, hyperbolic discounting, and mental time travel : evolutionary accounts of lifetime decisions / Simple heuristics for deciding what to eat / Decisions, memory, and the neuroecology of food-storing birds / The psychology of acquisitiveness / Tightwads, spendthrifts, and the pain of paying : new insights and open questions / Appetite, consumption, and choice in the human brain / Incentive salience in addiction and over-consumption / Balancing consumption : brain insights from pleasure cycles / How expectencies shape consumption experiences / The development of saving / Consumer behavior across the life span : a life history theory perspective / Older adults as consumers : an examination of differences by birth cohort / Consumption as pollution : why other people's spending matters / |