Abstract Intended as a branch of synthetic biology, xenobiology aims to design and build non-standard life forms, that is constructively venture into biological otherness. According this creative speculative character, it challenges the principles biology itself, which tied fundamentally reductionist approach. Xenobiology does not treat closed code, but rather field ontological innovation; in s...

The implications of waning desire for ownership on materialism are not well understood. This study examines the interface between and consumption asks, is manifest in absence centrality, if so, how? Drawing from an interpretive investigation digital nomads, it suggested that has broadened to adapt non-ownership we define as a logic consumption, which manifests preoccupation with objects, access...

Two studies were conducted to examine the impact of two basic self-regulatory orientations—locomotion and assessment (Higgins, Kruglanski, & Pierro, 2003)—on materialistic values. We hypothesized that, because assessment is associated with great concern over self-evaluation—particularly as it applies to social comparison and extrinsic motivation— it should promote materialistic concerns which i...

Compulsive buying has received increased research attention in the last decade. This study explores the relationship between compulsive buying and reactive and regulative temperament while controlling for depression and materialism. One hundred and thirty female psychology students filled out the Compulsive Buying Scale, the Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Scales, and the Effortful Control Sca...

In this article, we introduce a model on the unintended effects of advertising. This model describes the existing hypotheses about the impact of advertising on (a) materialism, (b) parent–child conflict, and (c) unhappiness. The validity of each of these hypotheses was investigated using a vote-counting analysis. Our analyses yielded a small to moderate effect size for the relation between adve...

In this study, we examine chronic materialism as a possible motive for Facebook usage. We test an explanatory mediation model predicting that materialists use Facebook more frequently, because they compare themselves to others, they objectify and instrumentalize others, and they accumulate friends. For this, we conducted two online surveys (N1 = 242, N2 = 289) assessing demographic variables, F...