Hostile Holiday Shopping, Why Cats Love Boxes, Beethoven’s 10th
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Learn about psychological ownership; why cats love boxes; and how researchers—and AI—finished Beethoven’s 10th symphony.
"Psychological ownership" is why holiday shopping can get so hostile by Steffie Drucker
- Kirk, C. P. (2018, November 20). Why do Black Friday shoppers throw punches over bargains? A marketing expert explains “psychological ownership.” The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/why-do-black-friday-shoppers-throw-punches-over-bargains-a-marketing-expert-explains-psychological-ownership-106673
- Campbell Pickford, H., Joy, G., & Roll, K. (2016). Psychological Ownership: Effects and Applications. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2893092
- Kirk, C. P., Peck, J., & Swain, S. D. (2018). Property lines in the mind: Consumers’ psychological ownership and their territorial responses. Journal of Consumer Research, 45(1), 148–168. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx111
Why Do Cats Love Boxes? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Reese in Newton, Massachusetts) originally published September 5, 2018 https://omnystudio.com/p/curiosity-daily/clips/1adc7d26-de9f-48df-9a31-ab51000f8517
Musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven's 10th symphony by Briana Brownell
- Elgammal, A. (2021, September 24). How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-a-team-of-musicologists-and-computer-scientists-completed-beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-168160
- NPR. (2021, October 2). Team uses AI to complete Beethoven’s unfinished masterpiece. NPR.org; NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/02/1042742330/team-uses-ai-to-complete-beethovens-unfinished-masterpiece
- i24NEWS English. (2019). Artificial Intelligence to “Complete” Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu1GI0QNLSE
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Cody Gough, and I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about one psychological reason why holiday shopping can get so hostile |
| 0:12.3 | and how researchers completed Beethoven's |
| 0:14.4 | 10th Symphony. We'll also answer a listener question about why cats love boxes. |
| 0:18.8 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:20.8 | Today is Black Friday in the United States and that usually comes with some very bad behavior |
| 0:27.9 | from frantic shoppers. |
| 0:30.3 | A fellow shopper taking your parking spot or touching your PlayStation 5 before you've even bought it |
| 0:37.8 | can lead to heightened emotions and terse words. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, researchers have a name for this phenomenon. It's called psychological ownership. |
| 0:47.0 | Basically, we lay claim to stuff in our heads, even if it's not actually ours. |
| 0:54.2 | Psychological ownership can be beneficial. |
| 0:57.2 | When you feel ownership of your ideas or your work, |
| 1:00.4 | you might feel greater job satisfaction, but it can also bring out your dark side like it does on Black Friday. |
| 1:06.7 | Whether for good or for evil, researchers say psychological ownership has three ingredients. |
| 1:13.0 | First is the ability to touch or control something or even imagine doing so. |
| 1:19.0 | Think about putting stuff in your shopping cart, whether that's real or virtual. The second thing is a deep knowledge of the product. |
| 1:27.0 | You know everything about that PlayStation 5 and why you have to have it. |
| 1:32.0 | And finally, there's time and effort. and why you have to have it. |
| 1:33.0 | And finally, there's time and effort spent personalizing the product. |
| 1:38.0 | Basically, the secret to Build a Bear's success. |
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