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Natural Materials – Nature of Materials [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of DRS, 2018
The material world is recently and very rapidly changing; altering the relationships between materials – the substance of everyday life – and designers – the professionals who are responsible for transforming materials into daily life objects. This vibrant context prompts us to explore and attempt to conceptualise these fluid relationships and review ...
Tonuk, D, Fisher, T
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Consumer impulse buying behavior: the role of confidence as moderating effect

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
Many indicators have been proposed that can contribute to impulse buying. However, few studies have examined the role of social comparison in impulse buying, materialism, and negative affect, and even less is known about the underlying processes that may
Van Dat Tran
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The Materialism of Georges Bataille. A Reading from the Perspective of Nietzsche and Marx [PDF]

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2015
Georges Bataille’s notion of materialism can be seen as a critique of metaphysical or idealist conceptions of materialism. On the basis of the reconstruction of Bataille’s statements in his different early writings, the paper provides an interpretation ...
Vicente Montenegro Bralic
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The Effect of Ostracism on Adults’ Materialism: The Roles of Security and Self-Construal

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
With consumer culture becoming more prominent, the value of materialism is growing rapidly. This study explored the formation of materialism in adults, based on the temporal need–threat model of ostracism and the theory of materialistic values ...
Jiaxi Feng   +3 more
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The Not-So-Dark Side of Materialism: Can Public Versus Private Contexts Make Materialists Less Eco-Unfriendly?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Materialism, a way of life characterized by pursuing possessions, image, and status, has always been looked upon as self-interested and unkind. Previous studies have widely verified that materialism has a negative impact on individuals’ pro-environmental
Luxiao Wang   +3 more
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The Silence of the Digital Flock and the Decline of Western Democracy

open access: yesPolítica Internacional
In the digital age, monopolistic platforms control the flow of information, manipulating public discourse through algorithms and data mining, creating a “digital flock” devoid of critical reflection.
Ph.D. Nguyễn Vân Hạn
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Experiential Materialism? An Essay on the Development of Materialism from the Behavior of Publication Related to Experiential Consumption

open access: yesTeoria e Prática em Administração, 2020
Purpose - This essay aims to discuss the development of an experiential materialism based on the behavior of publications related to consumption.
Mikaela Daiane Prestes Floriano   +1 more
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Notes Toward an Extimate Materialism: A Reply to Graham Harman

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2021
This article mounts a defense of my and Slavoj Žižek’s co-edited anthology, Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism, against the two main criticisms of it made throughout Graham Harman’s article “The Battle of Objects and Subjects”: (
Sbriglia Russell
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Materialism, Self-Objectification, and Capitalization of Sexual Attractiveness Increase Young Chinese Women’s Willingness to Consider Cosmetic Surgery

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Research reveals significant positive associations between materialism and cosmetic surgery consideration, yet little is known about why this relationship exists.
Qingqing Sun
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ECONOMIC MATERIALISM AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION IN ROMANIAN STUDENTS [PDF]

open access: yesManagement & Marketing, 2021
This study intends to analyze the correlation between economic materialism and entrepreneurial intention in a sample of University students from Romania.
Bogdan Ioane MARCULESCU   +2 more
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