For many, holidays bring the joy of giving and the need to shop for the right gift for the right person. For the 5% of adults who are compulsive shoppers (sometimes termed compulsive buyers), the ...

The 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11; World Health Organization [WHO], 2018) includes an “other specified” residual category among impulse-control disorders. One ...

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A clinical study of treatment-seeking patients reveals that compulsive buying disorder affects men and women in similar ways psychologically, but gender differences emerge in what people buy and how ...

Research has investigated compulsive online shopping behavior in India, with a specific focus aimed at unzipping the triggers and antecedents related to the purchase of jeans. The research is ...

“Shopaholics are still referred to in a tongue-in-cheek way,” says Terrence Shulman of the Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft and Spending. Hence why the new flick “Confessions of a Shopaholic” — ...

Research in the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development has looked at whether what we might refer to as brand addiction leads to compulsive buying of fast-moving consumer goods. By brand ...

I Can’t Stop Buying Running Shorts With Pockets for My PhoneBecause if I can’t run without a device to listen to music or record my distance, I may as well not run at all.

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As I scrolled through various Instagram captions that mused on what quarantining would actually be like, I saw a photo of an amazing dress. It was lavender-hued, tiered and overlaid in a delicate lace ...

I Can’t Stop Buying Products Meant for Babies“Not only are they more stringently tested for sensitive skin, but they make me feel like I’m as unjaded as the infants they’re meant for.” I Pretty Much ...