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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Valentine's Day approaches, what kind of love poems are people looking for? If we look at the top love-poem searches, they range from queries for the "best love poem" to the lovelorn request for "sad love poems" and the age-specific "teenage love poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Words of Love Online | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...study is interesting in a counterintuitive way,” said psychology professor Joshua D. Greene ’97. “You might think that if people are sad, everything seems lousy and material goods aren’t worth their money...

Author: By Michael J Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Psych Study Quantifies Therapeutic Spending | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...experiment involved 33 subjects, who were asked to watch either a sad video or a video designed to be emotionally neutral. Afterward, participants were given the opportunity to buy sporty water bottles with the $10 they received for participating. Results showed those who watched the sad video were willing to pay, on average, $2.11 for the bottle, nearly four times as much as the $0.56 that those who watched the neutral video were willing...

Author: By Michael J Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Psych Study Quantifies Therapeutic Spending | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...researchers explained their results with two possible theories: sad, self-focused individuals either indulge in material goods to seek self-enhancement or they feel reduced self-worth and consequently value other things more by comparison...

Author: By Michael J Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Psych Study Quantifies Therapeutic Spending | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...avoid these unconscious urges, Gross said, “people should find solace in other things when feeling sad, such as socializing or athletics, to curtail their spending...

Author: By Michael J Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Psych Study Quantifies Therapeutic Spending | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

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