TY - BOOK AU - Preston,Stephanie D. AU - Kringelbach,Morten L. AU - Knutson,Brian AU - Whybrow,Peter C. AU - Brosnan,Sarah F. AU - Proctor,Darby AU - Griskevicius,Vladas AU - Redden,Joseph P. AU - Ackerman,Joshua M. AU - Saad,Gad TI - The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption T2 - The MIT Press Series SN - 9780262325387 AV - HF5415.32 U1 - 339.4/7 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - Consumer behavior KW - Consumption (Economics) -- Psychological aspects KW - Consumers -- Psychology KW - Neuropsychology KW - Evolutionary psychology KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Toward an Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption -- Evolutionary Perspectives -- 1 Reciprocity in Primates -- 2 The Fundamental Motives for Why We Buy -- 3 The Evolutionary Instincts of Homo consumericus -- 4 Myopia, Hyperbolic Discounting, and Mental Time Travel: Evolutionary Accounts of Lifetime Decisions -- Food, Foraging, and Saving -- 5 Simple Heuristics for Deciding What to Eat -- 6 Decisions, Memory, and the Neuroecology of Food-Storing Birds -- 7 The Psychology of Acquisitiveness -- 8 Tightwads, Spendthrifts, and the Pain of Paying: New Insights and Open Questions -- Neurobiological Perspectives -- 9 Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain -- 10 Incentive Salience in Addiction and Over-Consumption -- 11 Balancing Consumption: Brain Insights from Pleasure Cycles -- 12 How Expectancies Shape Consumption Experiences -- Consumption Across the Life Span -- 13 The Development of Saving -- 14 Consumer Behavior Across the Life Span: A Life History Theory Perspective -- 15 Older Adults as Consumers: An Examination of Differences by Birth Cohort -- 16 Consumption as Pollution: Why Other People's Spending Matters -- Contributors -- Index N2 - Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3339838 ER -