{"id":58489,"date":"2025-11-12T00:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-phenomenon-of-the-luxury-trap\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:08:38","slug":"the-phenomenon-of-the-luxury-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-phenomenon-of-the-luxury-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The phenomenon of the &#8220;luxury trap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sociological and psychological effect, in which luxury turns into a necessity and generates new needs. As soon as a person gets used to a new convenience, he takes it for granted, and therefore counts on it. There comes a time when it is no longer possible to do without the familiar. Scientists call a variety of things as examples of this phenomenon (the so-called &#8220;benefits of civilization&#8221;, but not only &#8211; for example, supporters of geographical determinism cite the example of the agrarian revolution (transition to agriculture)). From a psychological point of view, the &#8220;luxury trap&#8221; is often considered within the framework of applied counseling psychology in determining the true values and preferences of the client.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sociological and psychological effect, in which luxury turns into a necessity and generates new needs. As soon as a person gets used to a new convenience, he takes it for granted, and therefore counts on it. There comes a time when it is no longer possible to do without the familiar. Scientists call a variety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-social-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}