Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Toward an Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption -- Evolutionary Perspectives -- 1 Reciprocity in Primates -- 2 The Fundamental Motives for Why We Buy -- 3 The Evolutionary Instincts of Homo consumericus -- 4 Myopia, Hyperbolic Discounting, and Mental Time Travel: Evolutionary Accounts of Lifetime Decisions -- Food, Foraging, and Saving -- 5 Simple Heuristics for Deciding What to Eat -- 6 Decisions, Memory, and the Neuroecology of Food-Storing Birds -- 7 The Psychology of Acquisitiveness -- 8 Tightwads, Spendthrifts, and the Pain of Paying: New Insights and Open Questions -- Neurobiological Perspectives -- 9 Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain -- 10 Incentive Salience in Addiction and Over-Consumption -- 11 Balancing Consumption: Brain Insights from Pleasure Cycles -- 12 How Expectancies Shape Consumption Experiences -- Consumption Across the Life Span -- 13 The Development of Saving -- 14 Consumer Behavior Across the Life Span: A Life History Theory Perspective -- 15 Older Adults as Consumers: An Examination of Differences by Birth Cohort -- 16 Consumption as Pollution: Why Other People's Spending Matters -- Contributors -- Index.