{"id":1599,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/chocolate-gifts-go-down-well-on-a-bad-day\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","slug":"chocolate-gifts-go-down-well-on-a-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/chocolate-gifts-go-down-well-on-a-bad-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate gifts go down well on a bad day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-23 16:15:00<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The gift of a bar of chocolate can give people a lift on a tough day.<BR><br \/>\nA study of over 3,600 individuals found that they would prefer a sweet treat to a shoulder to cry on during troubled times.<BR><br \/>\nThis is because gifts are seen as a greater &#8216;sacrifice&#8217; because they are more focused on benefiting the receiver than the person giving it out.<BR><br \/>\nHolly Howe, lead researcher and assistant professor of marketing at the HEC Montreal business school in Canada, said: &#8220;When people think about sacrifice, they take the sacrificer&#8217;s motives into account. When it comes to conversation, they assume that the supporter&#8217;s motive is to benefit both parties.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;When it comes to gifts, the supported person assumes that the supporter&#8217;s motive is more altruistic &#8211; that they are sacrificing solely to benefit the recipient.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-23 16:15:00 The gift of a bar of chocolate can give people a lift on a tough day. A study of over 3,600 individuals found that they would prefer a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}