Dr Jane Major returns to discuss the psychology behind giving and receiving expensive gifts and grand gestures. How much is generosity, how much is people-pleasing or covering for low self-esteem and how much is a manipulative urge to put another person in your debt or buy a pass for bad behaviour past or future? What about receiving gifts? How do we communicate our preferences or concerns and how can we learn to accept a genuine gift that may feel like “too much”?