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Material Desire

Material Desire is an academic construct within commodity culture theory that denotes the psychological and social predisposition toward acquiring goods not merely for utility but as symbols of identity, status, and fulfillment, distinguishing it from basic needs or functional consumption by its embeddedness in cultural meaning and ideological mediation.

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8.8K

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118

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72

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2017–2026

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Publications

63

Materialism: Trait Aspects of Living in the Material World

Russell W. Belk · Journal of Consumer Research · 1985 · 1.9K citations

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Material Culture and Mass Consumption.

Robert J. Foster, Daniel Miller · Man · 1991 · 1.4K citations

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The Social Life of Things

Arjun Appadurai · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 1988 · 1.1K citations

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Cross-cultural differences in materialism

Russell W. Belk · Journal of Economic Psychology · 1996 · 610 citations · Full text

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Growing up in a Material World: Age Differences in Materialism in Children and Adolescents

Lan Nguyen Chaplin, Deborah Roedder John · Journal of Consumer Research · 2007 · 523 citations

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Authors

118

  1. RW
    Russell W. Belk

    York University, Canada

    4 publications · 2.6K citations

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  2. DM
    Daniel Miller

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. AR
    Aric Rindfleisch

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    2 publications · 74 citations

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  4. AA
    Aaron Ahuvia

    University of Michigan–Dearborn, United States

    2 publications · 77 citations

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  5. JL
    Jeffrey L. Meikle

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    2 publications · 128 citations

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Institutions

72

  1. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    2.5K citations

  2. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    114 citations

  3. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    43 citations

  4. Murray State University

    Murray, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    85 citations

  5. University of Lausanne

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  6. Centre d'Investigation Clinique de Nantes

    Nantes, France

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    60 citations

  7. University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Greensboro, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    26 citations

  8. Western University

    London, Canada

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    111 citations

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Venues

  1. ACR North American Advances

    4 publications · 115 citations

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  2. Journal of Economic Psychology

    3 publications · 991 citations

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  3. Journal of Consumer Research

    JCR · 3 publications · 2.6K citations

    3

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  4. Social Indicators Research

    2 publications · 67 citations

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  5. Journal of Business Ethics

    2 publications · 227 citations

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