“…Thus, the current meta-analysis does not include assessments regarding (a) philosophical materialism (i.e., the belief that physical laws concerning matter can answer most questions), (b) beliefs about the goals that a society (as opposed to an individual person) should pursue (as captured, e.g., by Inglehart's, 1981, 1997, materialist andpostmaterialist values), (c) attitudes toward budgeting money or money as good or bad in general (e.g., Tang, Kim, & Tang, 2002), (d) measures of purchases made with the intention of acquiring material possessions (as opposed to obtaining experiences; Carter & Gilovich, 2012;Van Boven & Gilovich, 2003), or (e) measures of power values (which are primarily concerned with having dominance and status over other people ;Schwartz, 1992; see Kasser & Ahuvia, 2002, for discussion of this latter distinction). The measures that fit our definition and are included in the meta-analysis vary in some respects but, generally speaking, follow one of two broad methodological approaches (see Table 1).…”