You have views about what makes a life happy and successful. You have, in short, a philosophy. Your philosophy affects how you live and how you evaluate people's lives, including your own. It's not ...

When is it enough for a materialistic person? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. I’m a ...

Madonna may have loved living in a material world as a material girl, but a recent study shows that married couples should avoid living according to this '80s jam at all costs. Jason Carroll, BYU ...

(LiveScience) Finally some good news for parents of tweens: A new study shows that marketers may not influence kids as much as many think. Many parents already know older children can be materialistic ...

“One of the most common of current phrases is that of having a good time, and too generally it is employed as an excuse for some gross evasion of duty, some ignoble yielding to a shameful egotism, ...

Kids are facing a host of influences that are relatively new in the history of kid-dom—clever advertising and social media are creating pulls toward products and appearances that must be very strong.

Mark Promislo is a husband, father of two young girls, and a management professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, who recently published a study in the Journal of Occupational and ...

Materialism as an attitude if not a philosophy is all around us. In the house, on the streets, in the parties, in our offices, in the very air, we breathe. No god but Mammon is reigning ideology. The ...