A study conducted in China has found that individuals who perceive themselves as physically attractive tend to be more ...

I think there is a deep reason why: the left’s traditional commitment to a doctrine called materialism. Materialism is a very old theory of human behavior, most strongly identified with Marx and ...

Materialism is one of those things that most of us don't want to think about, especially when it causes trouble in your marriage or stresses you out. As a stereotype, a materialistic person is a ...

Thus, materialism is especially effective in the study of political economy and political contestation, even though it still has relevance in other spheres. From this follows an important conclusion.

"Our study found that materialism was associated with spouses having lower levels of responsiveness and less emotional maturity. Materialism was also linked to less effective communication ...

But Dutch tweens who are happy with their lives are immune to the corrosive effects of materialism and watching hours of television, the study found. Only children who were both unhappy at the ...

Jason Carroll, BYU professor of marriage and family studies, and two graduate students, Ashley LeBaron and Heather Kelly, have provided more insight into what may be one of the roots of the ...

But having learned some lessons from the past, we must now content ourselves no longer with Marx’s dialectical materialism and his “scientific socialism” but with a science-besotted ...

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.

He lost his re-election bid in a landslide to Ronald Reagan 16 months later, at the dawn of a decade that glamorized materialism like few if any that had come before it. The decades that followed ...