Can loving and supportive parents unintentionally encourage their children to define their self-worth through possessions? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, children who ...

You look across the crowded room and see her, standing with her friends at the bar. Instantly, you are smitten. It might be that flyaway strand of hair that just refused to be put up and now whispers ...

One thing I hear quite often is “It’s awful, people are so materialistic. They think that buying things can make them happy, but it can’t.” Well, that statement contains more than one idea. The first ...

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, ...

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 ...

How do we keep our celebration of Christmas from getting too materialistic? I have bad news: If it is this point in the year and you are just now worrying about it, it’s probably too late. The way we ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Loving money may not be good for your love life, according to new research that finds that ...