Thursday, October 15, 2009
Psyblog Time!!! on Conceptual Consumption
So i found a blog called "Why Do People Watch Scary Movies, Stay in Ice Hotels or Eat Bacon-Flavoured Ice-Cream?" and to be honest i didn't really know why people do such things. According to the article it claims the reason we do crazy things like that is to be able to 'possess the experience' and 'look like interesting people.' This I find a little bit weird of an explanation but yet it just might be true.It is also said that people by thing that they never use just to show the object off and rub in other people's faces. Of course there is the giving things and money to charity which makes you feel good and others think you're a nice person. If you think about it people always buy and do things for a certain reason. People usually do things for one of three main reasons. They do it for the experience, the positive feeling they get afterwords, or for negative experiences.
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I think you make a good point about how we like to do things just for the experience. To say that we did do it. Whether it is a negative thing or positive thing. some people may try smoking just because they want the experience. other may jump off a bridge with friend just to have the experience. it is very interesting and does make sense. I will admit i have tried things just to say i did it before.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree that people do things just to look interesting. Why do we watch scary movies? We know that they’re not real, but we still watch them. We watch these movies because we think we are “cool” to those who haven’t seen the movies. I also agree that we do things just for the experience. Even I have done things just for the experience, so that I can say that I done something.
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