Dr. Suzanna Forwood

It's kind of hard to know.

One is the flip of the other.

But if you think about something like the bubble bath, which is probably free or at least, you know, once you've got a bottle of bubble bath in the house.

It's not as expensive as a takeout.

And similarly, an alcoholic drink or a bar of chocolate, yeah, okay, clearly there's a cost with having that in the house.

But if you've got it in the house and you do consume it in your kind of day-to-day routine, we're probably not talking the same amount of cost as a takeout.

So those things you might be inclined to do on the average day.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

What we found actually was that all of the behaviors, apart from the shopping spree, were more likely on the bad day.

But it was only the takeout that was also more likely on the good day.

So people, I think, are thinking differently about how they congratulate themselves for good days and how they console themselves for bad days.

That's a really good question.

Now, because we randomize people, we didn't ask them.

We didn't say how much of this is because you had a good day.

And the people in all the different conditions were kind of equally likely to be male or of a certain age.

So the demographics were kind of balanced across those conditions.

So we would have to follow up to find that out.

I suspect people are very aware of this behavior.

I suspect no one is hugely surprised.