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 ...

Thus, materialism is especially effective in the study of political economy and political contestation, even though it still has relevance in other spheres. From this follows an important conclusion.

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

It's more accurate to say that democracy dies in materialism, by which I mean our utilitarian attitude today that knowledge is rooted only in marketable skills. It changes our perception of ...

That partisanship was, in part, why I recently wrote an essay concerning the question of mind, matter and the perspective known as materialism. The piece appeared two weeks ago in Aeon.

Younger generations are shifting from prioritizing material goods to prioritizing experiences — yet, purchasing these experiences has become a new form of materialism. “Bucket list” trips perpetuate ...

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 ...