People tend to make more extraneous purchases when they shop outside their own communities, says Indiana University professor Ruth Engs, who studies shopping addiction.

研究购物成瘾行为的印第安纳大学教授鲁思·恩格斯说，人们在所居住社区之外的其他地区购物时会更加挥霍无度。

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And women are nine times more likely than men to be affected - one study found up to half of all 14- to 18-year-old girls in Scotland, Italy and Spain displayed signs of shopping addiction.

并且，女性比男性多出了九倍跟入店盗窃扯上关系的几率。 一个调查为这个现象提出了原因：苏格兰、意大利和西班牙14到18岁的女孩们有一半存在着购物成瘾的征兆或问题。

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When you stop the shopping addiction, the stories within you signal to themselves that the way is clear, that the suffering is over.

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But not surprising, given that Oxygen is the home to such fare as My Shopping Addiction, The Bad Girls Club, and every possible incarnation of Tori Spelling and her husband.

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The American addiction to shopping has sustained the economy for so long that some economists may be taking it for granted.

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