# Prof. Adam Alter on exceptional expenses

1 June 19, 2012 The Globe and Mail ![The Gobe and Mail logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030719.jpg?itok=syM8EjNA)>

Excerpt from [The Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/household-finances/beware-those-little-splurges-really-add-up/article4324598/?cmpid=rss1) -- "'In each instance, it seems reasonable to make a budgeting exception given the special nature of the spending and the low likelihood that a similar situation will recur any time soon,' the authors Abigail Sussman, a doctoral candidate of psychology at Princeton University, and [Adam Alter](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter), an assistant professor of marketing at New York University, wrote."

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Additional coverage appeared on [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2012-06-consumers-overspend-exceptional.html).