Visit Your Local PBS Station PBS Home PBS Home Programs A-Z TV Schedules Watch Video Support PBS Shop PBS Search PBS

This Emotional Life  Shopping for stress

Behavioral scientist Peter Whybrow provides... Details

 
 

Program: This Emotional Life

Episode: Shopping for stress

Peter Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, comments on the effects of our consumer lifestyle. Saying that (People) have been told somehow that if they gather material goods, they will feel better in the process of gathering these goods they've stressed themselves to the point where they're extraordinarily anxious, depressed.

Your purchase helps support PBS and the programs you love.
Buy DVD

Duration: (1:17)
Premiere Date: 08/18/2009
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


To view the full experience of this website, please download and install Adobe Flash Player 9.

Did you know? Viewers like you are our largest single source of support.

More Videos from This Emotional Life

Full episodes
42 VIDEOS

Your Friends' Friends Can Make You Happy
1:30 Air Date 01/04/10

Asperger's Syndrome
2:27 Air Date 12/31/09

The Price of Being Human
2:07 Air Date 12/31/09

Born on a Sunny Day
2:07 Air Date 12/31/09

A Special Emotion
0:58 Air Date 12/31/09

The First Connection
1:14 Air Date 12/31/09
+ MORE FULL EPISODES