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Minimalism, materialism, the life-changing magic of the container store. Gen-Z are drowning in competing schools of thought ...
A new study published in the International Journal of Psychology has found that people who strongly admire celebrities tend to score higher in both materialistic values and narcissistic ...
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Morality in decline

IRFAN ALI SOOMRO ...
Materialism is often seen as a driving force in today’s consumer-driven society. People strive to acquire more possessions, usually equating material wealth with success and happiness.
I’m a consumer psychologist who has been researching materialism for 30 years. Materialists are more motivated and excited by the purchase of a product more than the actual use of the product.
Rebecca Mead reviews Lauren Greenfield’s book “Generation Wealth,” which features glossy images of high rollers in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and beyond, from the nineteen-nineties to the mid ...
3 Tips to Tame Your Materialism and Be Happier Materialism can make you miserable, science shows. Here’s how to weaken its grip on your life.
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart (Yale, 365 pp., $28) Despite what its title seems to promise, this book is not really about “the experience of God ...
Materialism, sometimes called naturalism, is the belief that matter — molecules in motion — is all that exists. Everything else: mind, consciousness, spirit — must somehow be reduced to the ...
The researchers concluded that low life satisfaction caused materialism, and only in kids who frequently saw TV advertising. "It's really about the way that advertising tries to sell products ...
But our materialism makes it more difficult. David Smith is a lecturer in American history at Baylor University. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News. What's your view?
The knowledge you gain by doing things yourself can pay off later in unexpected ways.