(LiveScience) Finally some good news for parents of tweens: A new study shows that marketers may not influence kids as much as many think. Many parents already know older children can be materialistic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present research tests the longitudinal role of life satisfaction on materialism among Chinese adolescents, and provides empirical ...

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. However, this ...

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Mark Promislo is a husband, father of two young girls, and a management professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, who recently published a study in the Journal of Occupational and ...

Kids are facing a host of influences that are relatively new in the history of kid-dom—clever advertising and social media are creating pulls toward products and appearances that must be very strong.

Loving money may not be good for your love life, according to new research that finds that materialists have unhappier marriages than couples who don't care much about possessions. The effect holds ...

In January 1848, James Marshall was building a sawmill by a river near present day Sacramento when he found a piece of glowing metal on the floor, which turned out to be gold. Within a few weeks, once ...

Scholar and author George Weigel proposed that World War I was caused and prolonged not only by political struggles and complex intra-continental alliances, but by materialism, Social Darwinism, and a ...

Pope Francis urged Christians on Monday to forgo the greed, gluttony and materialism of Christmas and to focus instead on its message of simplicity, charity and love. Francis celebrated a Christmas ...