Curbing Unplanned Purchases 

Making your list and checking it twice could help you avoid picking up the extra unplanned purchases this year and curb your spending while shopping.
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business, Rosellina Ferraro talks about her new research that offers easy tips that can help consumers cut back on unplanned purchases.
Ferraro is an assistant professor of marketing. Her research focuses on consumer behavior, and specifically, the effects of nonconscious social influence on choice and preference and the effects of external threats on consumption behavior. Her work has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Marketing. She has presented research papers at the Association of Consumer Research and the Society for Consumer Psychology conferences. She teaches consumer behavior in the undergraduate and MBA programs and information processing in the PhD program.