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...Ellen Davis, an NRF vice president, says shoppers were intensely focused on staying within budget. "Shoppers were looking for deals on lower-priced items - such as $10 toys and $9 books, not $1,000 flat-screen TVs," said Davis during a conference call on Sunday...
...lure of cheap goods, though, is incredibly strong, even once we've reached the point of substantial creature comfort. In her book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, writer Ellen Ruppel Shell devotes the better part of two chapters to how inexpensive goods mess with our minds. She describes one experiment in which researchers used brain scans to show that the joy of a discounted item comes before it's bought; by the time a person is at home with his new thing, the luster is gone. On Black Friday, I watched shoppers on TV proudly state how much...
...panelists were Mary Ruggie, adjunct professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, Carole K. Hooven, a lecturer in anthropology and human evolutionary biology, and Mary Ellen Galante, a Cambridge-area midwife...
...they all still exist. These are all different personas I’ve adopted in my life. I was born Ellen Steinberg, and I created the person I wanted to be, who was Annie Sprinkle, kind of sex goddess. And then Anya...let’s say I was a liberated slut, and then I became Anya who was a sex goddess. And it just kind of evolved over time and I integrated different personalities over the years...
...Ellen R. Meara, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the research, suggested there could be several explanations for the disparity...