▲Click 'CHINADAILY' above to follow usIt's the end of October, which means China's Singles Day, or the annual online shopping carnival — the "Double Eleven" — is coming. Are you ready to "chop off your hands"? Every Nov 11, hundreds of millions of buyers surge in online shopping websites in a wild spree. Thanks to the seemingly irrational discounts, loneliness can be replaced with the satisfaction of shopping.As a study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science argues, material purchase — buying stuff — provides happiness over time, and the more you buy, the more happiness you gain. This is when shopping goes right.However, when shopping goes wrong, if you buy a large amount of goods without any practical use, it will be a waste of time and money. "Hands-chopping people", or online shopping addicts, are more prone to this problem. The
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