Word: behavior
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Poterba, who could not be reached yesterday, has conducted extensive research on taxation and the financial behavior of households...
...everyone going crazy? Is it something in the water, the crushing weight of soulless international imperialistic consumer capitalism, or perhaps those accursed trans-fats? Christiopher Lane, the author of “Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness” has a different suggestion. Lane argues that psychiatrists have been systematically narrowing the acceptable range of human behavior by increasing the number of diseases afflicting the human mind. To illustrate his point, Lane explores the expansion of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)—the handbook listing the types of mental disorders and their...
Most consumers are unaware that the banks constantly monitor all their borrowing behavior. Even if you just get too close to your borrowing limit (a figure you probably don't know) on your cards and mortgages, as Groves did, you can trigger what the industry calls universal default...
...company must take on the trickier challenges inherent in the new consumer-lifestyle business--like defining the category. "This notion of the consumer-electronics company," Kleisterlee says, is "of the past." These days, state of mind and body are increasingly what matters, Philips reckons. And both will influence shoppers' behavior to a greater degree. So for lifestyle, read products "that cater for those consumers interested in health and well-being." Take your alarm clock, for one. Instead of a loud buzzer jolting you out of bed, Philips wants to sell you a wake-up light that mimics a sunrise...
...start out that way. Even as I write this, I am watching my 2-year-old run around in circles. In the last paragraph alone, she has made six circumnavigations of the house. Kids seem to be born in constant motion, but along the way that behavior gets hijacked...