This is a material world we live in, but we must never lose sight of the fact that we are essentially spiritual beings; our ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

I think there is a deep reason why: the left’s traditional commitment to a doctrine called materialism. Materialism is a very old theory of human behavior, most strongly identified with Marx and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.