女性天生爱购物，而且会通过购物来减压，从心理学的角度来分析是一种心理疗法，叫retail therapy(购物疗法)。
Retail therapy is shopping with the primary purpose of improving the buyer's mood or disposition. Often seen in people during periods of depression or transition, it is normally a short-lived habit. Items purchased during periods of retail therapy are sometimes referred to as "comfort buys"。
“购物疗法”指为了调整情绪或精神状态而进行的购物行为。这种情况多发于情绪沮丧或调整期，一般不会持续太长时间。这期间购买的物品有时被叫做“安慰购买品”。
 
Retail therapy was first used as a term in the 1980s with the first reference being this sentence in the Chicago Tribune of Christmas Eve 1986: "We've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy."
“购物疗法”(retail therapy)这个词使用是在上世纪80年代，出现在1986年圣诞前夜出版的《芝加哥先驱报》上：“我们已经变成了一个用购物袋衡量生活质量，用购物疗法抚慰心灵创伤的国家。”

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