More materialistic participants, the researchers found, were unlikely to engage in reduced consumption. However, materialism did not seem to have an effect on their likelihood of practicing "green ...

Chinese were also more likely (46%) than the global average (32%) to express optimism for their country over the next year, lagging behind only Indians (53%), Canadians and Australians (47%). But ...

This post provided by GetRichSlowly.org. I’ve received a lot of interesting out-of-the-ordinary questions from readers recently. Two weeks ago, for instance, Rita asked about the moral ...

Materialistic people liked less by peers than 'experiential' people Date: April 16, 2010 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: People who pursue happiness through material possessions ...

If you had been born in any age of recorded history, the dominant story would have been either religious or physical-materialistic. At the present time, the physical/materialistic story is so dominant ...

· Materialistic expectations may cause a spouse to interpret a financial situation negatively, leading to more complaints and conflicts, even when another couple with similar financial resources won’t ...

Non-materialistic couples were about 10 percent to 15 percent better off in categories including marital satisfaction, marriage stability and lower levels of conflict, Carroll said.