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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Incidentally, Nagel has also gone out of his way to praise Stephen Meyer. Materialism, sometimes called naturalism, is the belief that matter — molecules in motion — is all that exists.

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 ...

The only thing that keeps us out of Heaven is not having faith in Jesus Christ.” Touchstone said materialism is antithetical to holiness and obedience to the precepts of God. “It’s that old ...

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 ...