Purchasing may have a negative impact on happiness because consumers often buy “joyless” material possessions，resulting in comfort but not pleasure.In general，people adapt to experiences more slowly than to material purchase.This can be seen in both negative and positive purchases：hedonic adaptation would result in a positive experience causing more happiness but a negative experience causing less happiness than the comparable material purchase with the same initial happiness level.

　　Experience，however，seems to be more resistant to these sorts of unfavourable comparisons.It is because of the unique nature of experience.It’s more difficult to make an unfavourable comparison when there is nothing directly comparable.After all，each of our youthful summers is different.

　　It’s well established that social comparisons can have a huge effect on how we view what might seem like positive events.One striking example is the finding that people prefer to earn 50,000 a year while everyone else earns 25,000, instead of earning 100,000 themselves and having other people earn 200,000.

　　A similar effect is seen for possessions.When there are so many flat­screen HD TVs to choose from，it’s easy to make unfavourable comparisons between our choice and the others available.

　　36．An abstract sense in the passage refers to awareness of something ________.

　　A．you cannot think about

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