 Silkweaver says: In three different investigations of gift exchanges among adults, the researchers consistently found that givers wrongly assumed that money spent on gifts buys recipients’ appreciation. “I suspect we’d see different results if we studied gift appreciation among children,” Flynn predicts. Kids, more than adults, focus primarily on the nature of a gift rather than its source. Gift givers reported that relatively expensive purchases best conveyed their thoughtfulness and consideration, the Stanford researchers say. Givers apparently spent more on gifts to impress recipients with the givers’ caring, not their cash, the researchers suggest. Yet recipients preferred gifts that they really needed or that had special personal meaning, regardless of price. Receiving any gift from someone shows me the person had me on their mind and that is enough gift for me.  Silkweaver, I'm not sure, to understand your comment complete! You write a style, that's complicated for not native speakers - sorry! But the article I understand! It#s a skin-deep observation! If one makes expensive gifts (for his earnings), he mostly won't give that, what the presentee really want, like love, time, partnership or anything, that don't cost money. Sometimes parents work too much and have not enough time for their children - so they try to scale this with expensive gifts. If anybody has really much money, he won't think about the expenses. Men often make big presents to their wives, to show them, that theirselves are poor and dependent - the next time, if the wie grumbles ab... I think the research was generally conducted on present exchange between friends. The cases you mention are of much deeper emotional involvement. In such cases, I agree that presents have a completely different social function and therefore different meaning. |
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