In an age where billionaires and conspicuous consumption are increasingly on display, new Otago-led research shows a simple ...

A new study published in the International Journal of Psychology has found that people who strongly admire celebrities tend ...

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.

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 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 ...

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

Materialism, Spending, and Affect: An Event-Sampling Study of Marketplace Behavior and Its Affective Costs. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17: 2277-2292. Burroughs, James E. & Aric Rindfleisch. 2002.

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 ...

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?

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A young person's level of materialism is directly connected to self-esteem, two U.S. researchers found in studies among three age groups.