Paradox of the compulsive buyer

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FEDERALNOYE GOSUDARSTVENNOYE AUTONOMNOYE OBRAZOVATELNOYE UCHREZHDENIYE VYSSHEGO OBRAZOVANIYA "NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY "HIGH SCHOOL EKONOMIKI" submitted data on emotionally loaded consumption About 10% of Russians are inclined to make purchases on a panic from news, 20% give in to impulsive desires to buy something, and 25% use shopping as remedy for alarm and a depression. These are results of poll of FEDERALNOYE GOSUDARSTVENNOYE AUTONOMNOYE OBRAZOVATELNOYE UCHREZHDENIYE VYSSHEGO OBRAZOVANIYA "NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY "HIGH SCHOOL EKONOMIKI" Approximately every tenth Russian is inclined to panic purchases against disturbing news, and every fourth has episodes of compulsive purchases (when purchase is made for the sake of the most purchases, instead of because of need for goods; such shopping brings to people pleasure in itself). Results of poll are that...
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Vadim Radaev
Last position: First vice rector, head of the department of economic sociology (NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY "HIGH SCHOOL EKONOMIKI", NIU "HIGH SCHOOL EKONOMIKI", HIGH SCHOOL ECONOMIES, HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY, HSE)
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