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KEN DOLAN, CNNfn ANCHOR, DOLANS UNSCRIPTED: Well, today`s the busiest shopping day of the year and the retailers want you to say charge, baby. Well, some are doing it responsibly, others are not so responsible.
DARIA DOLAN, CNNfn ANCHOR, DOLANS UNSCRIPTED: And what is the difference between just shopping a lot and being a compulsive shopper? Do you have some questions for me in the way of a true or false there to see what kind of shopper I am?
K. DOLAN: Are you going to take it? You`re going to take the test?
D. DOLAN: Do you have it? You don`t have it?
K. DOLAN: Well, I`ll get it here.
D. DOLAN: Well, I`ll just introduce our guest since you`re not ready.
K. DOLAN: Let`s do that first.
D. DOLAN: OK. Let`s go to a guest who`s going to help us differentiate between just shopping and compulsively shopping. He is Dr. Donald Black. He`s a professor of psychology at Iowa State University.
Dr. Black, thank you so much for joining us.
DR. DONALD BLACK, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: Thanks for having me.
K. DOLAN: Dr. Black what bothers me is that, and I don`t want to get political with you by any means and you don`t want that either, is that the president and politicals in Washington were telling us a year or two ago, shop, shop, shop, spend, spend, spend. Let`s get the economy out of the doldrums. And we did it. And the economy seems...
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