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Retail therapy fails to deliver happiness

It鈥檚 not unusual for people to try and cheer themselves up with a trip to the shops to buy themselves something special. We all like to treat ourselves occasionally. But this strategy might actually backfire and be making us unhappy. Nailay Ordabayeva is Professor of Marketing at Boston College in the US.

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