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To assess the experimental causal effects of materialistic cues on individual and societal dimensions of well-being.

June 21, 2020Psychology and MarketingOpen Access

Materialistic cues make us miserable: A meta‐analysis of the experimental evidence for the effects of materialism on individual and societal well‐being

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To assess the experimental causal effects of materialistic cues on individual and societal dimensions of well-being.
Conducted a meta-analysis of 27 independent experimental studies that primed materialism and measured well-being outcomes (N = 3,649; 62 effect sizes).
Applied multilevel modeling to estimate overall effects and examine potential moderation across well-being indicators.
Materialistic cues caused significant reductions in both individual well-being (δ = −0.39) and societal well-being (δ = −0.41).
Moderation analyses indicated that materialistic cues exerted a larger detrimental effect on interpersonal well-being compared to self-evaluation indicators.

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Meta-analysis reveals reduced individual and societal well-being following exposure to materialistic cues, indicating direct negative effects of consumer-oriented messaging.

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Moldes et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dcc76ec099bcfdbb13387e https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21387

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Meta-analysis reveals reduced individual and societal well-being following exposure to materialistic cues, indicating direct negative effects of consumer-oriented messaging.

Materialistic cues make us miserable: A meta‐analysis of the experimental evidence for the effects of materialism on individual and societal well‐being

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Materialistic cues make us miserable: A meta‐analysis of the experimental evidence for the effects of materialism on individual and societal well‐being

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