What Drives People To Become Collectors?

Inside the World of New York Sneakerheads: http://dne.ws/1BI3mOu

We all know someone that feels the urge to collect things. Why do humans feel compelled to collect?

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Why You Can't Stop
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...
“Do you look for flaws as if your life depended on it?”

Why do we collect things? Love, anxiety or desire
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandsty...
“About a third of people in the UK collect something. Their reasons and manner vary hugely.”

Brain hubs boil when hoarders face pitching their own stuff
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/...
“In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others' possessions, but over-activated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things, a new study has found.”

PET Study Finds Neurobiology Of Hoarders Differs From Other Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/...
“A PET imaging study conducted at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute indicates the neurobiology of America's estimated 1 million compulsive hoarders differs significantly from people with other obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms.”
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