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" ... Stressed-out people do extreme things, as anyone who has been in a supermarket as a hurricane or blizzard approaches can attest. During wartime, hoarding and black marketeering are common. But Ruvio, who is from Israel ("I can tell you that terror attacks are very stressful"), notes that materialistic people often turn toward objects as a way to cope with stress and uncertainty. "In the same manner that materialistic people think that they can be happier if they will buy things, they believe that they can relieve stress in the same manner," she told me. "Except that under stressful situations, buying behaviors tend to get out of control and become maladaptive buying behaviors." ... "