【Vox】Why you might feel the urge to overspend right now

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Why you might feel the urge to overspend right now
As the US opens back up, the impulse to spend money to alleviate tough emotions could take hold.

コロナ明けの反動で無駄遣い…はしてないけど香水にお金費やすことをためらわなくなったな。

turn out

意味 [it ~s out (that) 節]結局…ということがわかる

Our minds, it turns out, are not spreadsheets.

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Behavioral economics

意味 行動経済学

Behavioral economics has identified more than 100 ways people of all financial backgrounds fail to think straight when it comes to money.

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blurry

意味 〈形· 音· 記憶が〉ぼやけた; おぼろげな.

And as the pandemic shifts in the US, our thinking is about to get much blurrier.

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第一印象は「…スペルミス?」な単語だなーw

enormous

意味 (比較なし)[通例[名]の前で]ものすごい, 途方もない〈程度など〉

“What has been building up for a year and what is about to be released is an enormous amount of pressure,” said Brooke Struck, research director at the Decision Lab, a behavioral design think tank.

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toddler

意味 [C]よちよち歩き [歩き始め] の幼児

They reduce us to something less like adults and more like toddlers.

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repercussions

意味 影響

A drunk person, for example, isn’t known to carefully consider the future repercussions of their actions.

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forgo

意味 (かたく)〈楽しみなど〉を我慢する; …を差し控える, 遠慮する.

If you think that because you’ve been so good, perhaps by spending an entire year wearing your mask and forgoing public displays of Bon Jovi karaoke, you deserve to be a little bad now, that’s moral licensing.

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evolve

意味 〈物· 事が〉 (徐々に) 発達する, 発展する

Biases didn’t evolve to trip us up.

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