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

Minimalism, materialism, the life-changing magic of the container store. Gen-Z are drowning in competing schools of thought ...

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.

Materialism was also linked to less effective communication, higher levels of negative conflict, lower relationship satisfaction, and less marriage stability," said Jason Carroll, a BYU professor ...

Materialism is a philosophy that's associated with unhappiness. It holds that a life is better - happier, more successful - to the extent it's full of more and nicer things.

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.

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 ...

Materialism is good enough, except for its reputation; and the ideas which arc to follow will not be so precise as to call for great, nicety in name.

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 ...