Materialism. The bedrock of consumer culture. The fuel that powers our economic - and in many ways our social – engines. Where would we be without our designer clothes, handbags, cars, mc-mansions, ...

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 ...

Clothes, cars, travel, followers: People with a materialistic mindset always want more and, above all, more than others. Social media provides them with ideal opportunities to compare themselves with ...

Generational Changes in Materialism and Work Centrality, 1976-2007 (via Pacific Standard): We examined whether culture-level indices of threat, instability, and materialistic modeling were linked to ...

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 ...