Money can't buy happiness, but placing less value on the things it can buy may improve your mental health. The longest ever study on this topic finds that becoming less materialistic leads to more ...

In January 1848, James Marshall was building a sawmill by a river near present day Sacramento when he found a piece of glowing metal on the floor, which turned out to be gold. Once rumours of the ...

ACCORDING TO a semi-established consensus among the intellectual elite in the West, there is no such person as God or any other supernatural being. Life on our planet arose by way of ill-understood ...

A materialistic spouse increases likelihood of martial discord, study finds. Oct. 13, 2011— -- Focusing too heavily on the "for richer" part of the nuptial vows could spell disaster for a ...

In this reflective video, the speaker shares a personal journey of realizing the pitfalls of materialism, emphasizing how the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When self-esteem drops as children enter adolescence, materialism peaks. This study reveals a strong connection between an increase in materialism during adolescence and a decline in self-esteem.

Now that we’re a week into 2015, most of us have come down from the buzz of the holidays and returned to life as normal. And after spending weeks, if not months, obsessing over the gifts and goodies ...

“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, ...