{"id":6112,"date":"2014-11-02T03:53:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2014-11-02T03:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:53:45","slug":"another-reason-to-spend-money-on-experiences-rather-than-things-the-positive-benefits-of-anticipation-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/02\/another-reason-to-spend-money-on-experiences-rather-than-things-the-positive-benefits-of-anticipation-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to spend money on experiences rather than things\u2014the positive benefits of anticipation \u2013 Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of the studies indicated that\u00a0anticipation of an experience is\u00a0more exciting and pleasant than the anticipation of a material purchase\u2014regardless of the price of\u00a0the purchase. In the case of crowds queuing\u00a0up to make purchases, those in line for an experience (such as a play or admission to a theme park) generally are in better moods and on better behavior than those in line to buy material goods. In a press release, Gilovich said one reason the research is important to society is that it \u201csuggests that overall well-being can be advanced by providing an infrastructure that affords experiences\u2014such as parks, trails, beaches\u2014as much as it does material consumption.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/255963\/another-reason-to-spend-money-on-experiences-rather-than-things-the-positive-benefits-of-anticipation\/?utm_content=buffera7bf9&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Another reason to spend money on experiences rather than things\u2014the positive benefits of anticipation \u2013 Quartz<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; All of the studies indicated that\u00a0anticipation of an experience is\u00a0more exciting and pleasant than the anticipation of a material purchase\u2014regardless of the price of\u00a0the purchase. In the case of crowds queuing\u00a0up to make purchases, those in line for an experience (such as a play or admission to a theme park) generally are in better &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/02\/another-reason-to-spend-money-on-experiences-rather-than-things-the-positive-benefits-of-anticipation-quartz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another reason to spend money on experiences rather than things\u2014the positive benefits of anticipation \u2013 Quartz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}