Sentence examples for materialistic consumers from inspiring English sources

This research outlines implications of how marketers can design CSS so that they are also attractive to the critical target segment of materialistic consumers.

"Too many have the wrong idea of Americans as shallow, materialistic consumers who care only about getting rich and getting ahead," Mr. Bush said.

Too many have the wrong idea of Americans as shallow, materialistic consumers who care only about getting rich or getting ahead.

However, because money increases focus on product possession, the reverse effect can occur in cases where merely owning the product reflects the self (i.e., for prestige possessions, or for highly materialistic consumers).

… We predict that for [such] prestige possessions and materialistic consumers, priming money (vs. time) will instead increase feelings of personal connection by increasing focus on product possession".

Although Americans are seen as highly materialistic consumers, they are also despised and feared for their spiritual interests, their participation in religious worship and their subscription to creeds of morality.

The pressure on young children to be indoctrinated into our excessively materialistic consumer culture is unrelenting.

In that study, published in 2010 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, participants viewed enactments, in which actors played the role of either a experiential or materialistic consumer.

In the sad, materialistic, consumer-driven metropolis of this book, everyone exists in "the colourful pulsing mosaic" world of smart-phones that burst with "every last stinking detail"; "books only know the minds of their authors".

If there is a mismatch between the prosperity of our material culture and the enrichment of our spiritual world, it would be easy for the upper social class to develop a highly materialistic consumer attitude that will weaken the whole society's developmental value.

The conditions in this case are an unregulated free-market within a materialistic, consumer-driven culture.