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 ...

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.

Presidential hopeful and former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ing Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, has issued a passionate appeal to members of the party to return to its foundational ...

Materialism was also linked to less effective communication, higher levels of negative conflict, lower relationship satisfaction, and less marriage stability," said Jason Carroll, a BYU professor ...

For decades, Marxism and the socialist tradition more generally — of which Marxism is just apart — were associated with a doctrine known as materialism. But in the recent past, this approach ...

Materialism makes you a broke jerk, says science Being obsessed with stuff is eating your money, relationships, and soul, according to psychologist Tim Kasser.

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.

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 ...

Jimmy Carter Was Right About Materialism but, Alas, Wrong About Us “Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” he said in his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech.

Materialism is good enough, except for its reputation; and the ideas which arc to follow will not be so precise as to call for great, nicety in name.