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Psychology of collecting, an Uncommon card
The psychology of collecting is an area of study that seeks to understand the motivating factors explaining why people devote time, money, and energy making and maintaining collections.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- There exist a variety of theories for why collecting behavior occurs, including consumerism, materialism, neurobiology and psychoanalytic theory.
- The psychology of collecting also offers insight into variance between similar behavior that can be recognised on a continuum between being beneficial as a hobby and also capable of being a mental disorder.
- The large diversity of different types of collected objects and variance of collecting behaviors across these types has also been subject to research in psychology, marketing and game design.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Psychology of collecting article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Psychology of collecting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : BrayLockBoy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.