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Affluenza

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, describes the psychological and social effects of affluence and is used most commonly by critics of consumerism; some psychologists consider it a pseudo-scientific term, though the word continues to be used in scientific literature.

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