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This is scientific Americans Sixty seconds Science. I am Careen Hopcan. This will just take a minute. It's a common complaint.Perhaps level by every generation about the ones that followed. Kids nowadays are too materialistic1 ,with their inflated sense of entitlement and now flashing screen and cellphones. Well,(it) turns out this gripe might finally be true because today's adolescence2 seems to want more in the way of worldly goods than teens thirty years ago. And they don't really want to work for it.This is according to a study published in the personality and social psychology3 bulletin. to do the analyses,researchers turn to a survey that was given to 15.000 high-school seniors every year since 1976.Among other questions,the kids were asked to rate the importance of having lots of money and the stuff money can buy like house, a new car and motor-powered recreational vehicle . Compared to the baby boomers graduated in 70 s, millennial4 teens plays more stocks in the trapping of success and they also express less interest in what they paid to obtain what they covered. And can you blame them? In an advertising5 heavy-consuming economy, why wouldn't you think that the good life involve getting hands in the goods?
1 materialistic | |
a.唯物主义的,物质享乐主义的 | |
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2 adolescence | |
n.青春期,青少年 | |
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3 psychology | |
n.心理,心理学,心理状态 | |
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4 millennial | |
一千年的,千福年的 | |
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n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的 | |
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