Retail therapy: A strategic effort to improve mood

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The Benefits of Retail Therapy: Making Purchase Decisions Reduces Residual Sadness (2014, background): “Distress can also encourage unplanned purchases (e.g., Atalay & Meloy, 2011, Study 1).”
The Compensatory Consumer Behavior Model: How self-discrepancies drive consumer behavior (2017, unknown): “Indeed, this notion of escapism is so pervasive that it has even been dubbed “retail therapy” (Atalay & Meloy, 2011).”
Antecedents and consequences of chronic impulsive buying: Can impulsive buying be understood as dysfunctional self‐regulation? (2018, methodology): “For example, on the basis that their study participants showed no guilt or buyer’s remorse, Atalay and Meloy (2011) argue that impulsive buying often acts as an effective mood regulation strategy and that this ‘retail therapy’ behavior has little or no downside.”