1.) He's a pain in the chocolate market.
2.) (At a bar), hey babe, wanna get out of here? I want to explore your chocolate market.
2.) (At a bar), hey babe, wanna get out of here? I want to explore your chocolate market.
by Flung_Pu_Panda March 7, 2024
Get the chocolate market mug.Marketing is really what spam should be called, as they are essentially synonymous. Any fraudulent e-mails you get, marketing. Any unwanted phone calls from third world countries disguised as local numbers calling to inform you that you've won an all inclusive vacation in the Bahamas? Marketing. The reason marketing isn't called spam is because marketing is actually considered to be a real major in college/post-collegiate studies, and it's all based on bullshit. You couldn't have some fancy college with a "Spam" major. Never trust someone who majors in marketing, or even whose job/career is based on marketing, as these people would swindle their own mother for a quick buck.
Today I turned on my computer, went to check my e-mail, and I found 13 new marketing e-mails in my spam folder.
by Space Wrangler July 6, 2021
Get the Marketing mug.The study of how human psychology drives the collective behavior of buyers and sellers—the hopes, fears, and herd instincts that move prices, create bubbles, and trigger crashes. The market is often presented as rational, efficiently pricing all available information. Psychology reveals it's anything but: markets are driven by emotion (greed and fear), cognition (overconfidence and anchoring), and social dynamics (herding and fads). The psychology of the market explains why bubbles form (everyone convinced this time is different), why crashes happen (panic spreads like contagion), and why most investors underperform (they buy high out of greed, sell low out of fear). The market isn't a machine; it's a crowd, with all the psychology that implies.
Example: "He studied the psychology of the market after losing money in a crash he should have seen coming. The signs were there, but everyone was buying, and he got caught in the herd. Psychology explained it: not stupidity, but the overwhelming pull of collective behavior. The next time, he saw the herd forming and stayed out. Lonely but safe."
by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026
Get the Psychology of the Market mug.The study of how markets function as social institutions—not just as mechanisms for exchange but as systems of relationships, meanings, and power. Markets are often presented as natural and inevitable, but the sociology reveals that they're socially constructed, culturally specific, and politically maintained. The sociology of the market examines how markets are created (through laws, norms, infrastructure), how they're stabilized (through trust, reputation, regulation), and how they shape social life (creating winners and losers, defining value, organizing relationships). It also examines alternatives to markets—gift economies, commons, state allocation—and the ongoing struggle over what should be for sale and what shouldn't. Markets are not destiny; they're choices, made and unmade by societies.
Example: "She studied the sociology of the market after a financial crisis, watching how the supposedly 'free' market was bailed out by the state, how the losses were socialized while profits remained private, how the market was revealed as a political creation, not a natural force. The sociology showed that markets were made by people and could be unmade by people—if they had the will."
by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026
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