( University of Gothenburg ) The stereotypical Christmas gift shopper is a stressed-to-the-max individual with a filled-to-the-rim shopping cart in a busy shopping mall. The shopping hysteria during the weeks before Christmas is frequently debated in the media. Professor Helene Brembeck from the University of Gothenburg is moving the focus from the Christmas overflow as something entirely bad to ...

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