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Christine Carter Wired to want stuff? Neuroscience can explain kids’ holiday gimmes

Christine Carter, director of Greater Good Parents | 12/17/12 | 4 comments

I’ll never forget a holiday moment a few years ago, when I found myself in a negotiation with my younger daughter over her gift list. (Which, by the way, I don’t believe in. In theory, I’ve never wanted my kids to make lists of things they want for Christmas and … More >

Claude Fischer Money and character

Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 2/23/11 | 4 comments

One of the criticisms that foreigners (and many of us, too) have long had about Americans, going back to the earliest years, is how materialist and money-grubbing we are. Tocqueville was gentler than most when he wrote that “the desire to acquire the good things of this world … More >

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