<story><title>You almost never see a clock at the mall</title><url>https://thehustle.co/originals/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt; After 40 minutes, their brains effectively shut down. They struggled to make any logical decisions.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m dubious. I haven&amp;#x27;t read the study they take this conclusion from, but it does not accord with my experience of the world. Your brain shuts down after 40 minutes in a supermarket, really? Anyway, it&amp;#x27;s about supermarkets and not malls, and most of the other evidence in this article is about casinos. Thin soup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidWoof</author><text>If you follow through to the study, they displayed products on a screen to people in an MRI scanner, and asked them to evaluate the offers they were seeing. Unsurprisingly, after about 40 minutes their minds start to wander.  Because in some warped researchers mind, being in the dark staring at a screen for an hour is &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; like being walking through a supermarket.&lt;p&gt;Sociology studies are such a joke.</text></comment>
<story><title>You almost never see a clock at the mall</title><url>https://thehustle.co/originals/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt; After 40 minutes, their brains effectively shut down. They struggled to make any logical decisions.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m dubious. I haven&amp;#x27;t read the study they take this conclusion from, but it does not accord with my experience of the world. Your brain shuts down after 40 minutes in a supermarket, really? Anyway, it&amp;#x27;s about supermarkets and not malls, and most of the other evidence in this article is about casinos. Thin soup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>You (and I) are in the minority I think. The only time I browse a shop is when looking for a unique gift. Otherwise I go into the mall with a shopping list, get what I intended to get and leave. I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve ever bought an item on clothing on a whim. I also can&amp;#x27;t stand casinos, I find the manipulative atmosphere disturbing.</text></comment>