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.

In part II, we noted that education plants the seeds of potential, but leadership provides the climate in which they grow. In Africa, a crisis of leadership has become a crisis of values. Corruption, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

That is, materialism may be both good and bad. We develop a model that reconciles these two contrasting viewpoints by asserting that materialism may lead to life dissatisfaction when materialistic ...

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Materialism, 'rejection' of Christianity factors in World War I WWI Battle of the Hindenburg Line.

But the opposite held true: Life satisfaction had an effect on materialism, but only in children who watched a lot of television. Unhappy children became more materialistic over time only if they ...