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The study of 33 volunteers, to be published in the June 2008 edition of Psychological Science,by U.S. researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh has found that people who feel sad are more prone to spending money, compared directly to people who are not sad.Lead study author Cynthia Cryder, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University said that a high degree of self-focus can carry over to spending.