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The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262325387
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Interdisciplinary Science of ConsumptionDDC classification:
  • 339.4/7
LOC classification:
  • HF5415.32
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
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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.

Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.

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