# Professor Priya Raghubir is interviewed about her research on the connection between payment methods and spending

1 Faculty News December 8, 2016 ![Consumer Reports logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Consumer%20Reports%20Logo.jpg?itok=V4v81egy)>

Excerpt from [Consumer Reports](http://www.consumerreports.org/shopping-retail/how-you-pay-can-affect-how-much-you-spend/) -- "'There’s just something painful about taking money out of your wallet,' says [Priya Raghubir](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/priya-raghubir), professor of marketing at New York University. When you hand over cash or a check, you part with something of value. Yet after you swipe a credit or debit card, you put the same object back in your wallet. Paying feels less real, which encourages more spending."

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