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Shopping, Browsing - or Clubbing
Stores that sell blue jeans and T-shirts increasingly resemble nightclubs, with dark lighting and blaring dance tunes. In the latest installment of our May series "Sound Off," we examine how loud music reaches shoppers and gets you to spend more. Also: long-time New York singer Naomi Shelton performs in our studio with her band, The Gospel Queens.
How Music Makes You Spend
When stores, restaurants or bars pump up the volume on their sound systems it's believed to energize customers -- but it can also inflict hearing damage on employees. Joining us to explain the impact of loud music on shopping is Adrian North, a professor of applied psychology research at Heriot Watt University in England and author of the book The Social and Applied Psychology of Music.
Weigh in: Do you find that loud music influences your spending habits?
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