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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .It's a common complaint, perhaps leveled by every generation about the ones that follow:
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3 .kids nowadays are too materialistic, with their inflated sense of entitlement, and now flat screens and cell phones.
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4 .Well, turns out this gripe might finally be true.
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5 .Because today's adolescents seem to want more in the way of worldly goods than did teens 30 years ago,
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6 .and they don't really want to work for it.
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7 .That's according to a study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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8 .To do the analysis, researchers turned to a survey that's been given to about 15,000 high-school seniors every year since 1976.
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9 .Among other questions, the kids were asked to rate the importance of having "lots of money",
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10 .and the stuff money can buy, like a house, a new car, or a "motor-powered recreational vehicle."
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11 .Compared to the Baby Boomers that graduated in the '70s, Millennial teens place more stock in the trappings of success.
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12 .And they also express less interest in working hard to obtain what they covet.
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13 .And can you blame them?
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14 .In an advertising-heavy consumer economy, why wouldn't you think that "the good life" involves getting handed the goods?
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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