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How Your Brain Spends More When You Are Tired
Episode 84 of Behavioral Economics with Fexingo explores ego depletion: the finding that self-control is a finite resource that gets drained over the course of a day. Lucas and Luna walk through the landmark radish-and-chocolate experiment by Baumeister, then connect it to real spending patterns — like why grocery stores put candy at the checkout and why you spend more on Amazon after a long workday. They discuss a 2018 study from the Journal of Consumer Research showing that consumers who made a series of small decisions were 23 percent more likely to overspend on a subsequent purchase. The…
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