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According to Cohen, narcissism makes us "unknowingly inherently selfish because we’re always thinking about me." This cultivates, he says, "a very materialistic relationship to life" and to other people. NARCISSISM: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=narcissism 
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A team of researchers led by Galen Bodenhausen, a professor of psychology and marketing at Northwestern University, has published the results of a new study about materialism and happiness in the journal Psychological Science. When participants were labeled as “consumers,” they were more likely to selfishly focus on their own individual consumption. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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If the desire for ever-more material goods is not itself a mental disorder, it is associated with higher rates of depression, anxiety and anti-social behavior.
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Money doesn’t buy happiness. Neither does materialism: Research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not. Now new research shows that materialism is not just a personal problem. It’s also environmental. “We found that irrespective of personality, in situations that activate a consumer mindset, people show the same sorts of problematic patterns in wellbeing, including negative affect and social disengagement. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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The researchers evaluated nearly 2,000 couples in the United States, and found that those who claimed not to care much about money scored up to fifteen percent better on marriage quality measures than couples where one or both members were materialistic.
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Learn about children and materialism in this child psychology video from Howcast.
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Is John Lennon's line 'imagine no possessions' not as idealistic as it once seemed? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, globalization has led to a new class of 'global nomads' who are less attached to material objects.
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People who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not, say researchers. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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That’s probably enough for one day, but just to take this one step further; we know that what we see is not the world. The image we see is a mental construction of the world, and psychology has identified numerous examples of how we each see the world a little differently. An obvious example is colour-blindedness. Since the brain is constructing the world we see around us, and if we assume that the neural code and the image are different things… where is reality? Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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The Hard Problem of consciousness lies centrally to the Mind-Body Problem, concerning itself with the metaphysics (ontology) of mind. That is to ask ‘What is our understanding of the mind’s nature and what are the implications for its relationship with the physical world?’ This question traditionally leads to two distinct lines of thought; Dualism versus Materialism.
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