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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

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It's a common complaint, perhaps leveled by every generation about the ones that follow:

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kids nowadays are too materialistic, with their inflated sense of entitlement, and now flat screens and cell phones.

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Well, turns out this gripe might finally be true.

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Because today's adolescents seem to want more in the way of worldly goods than did teens 30 years ago,

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and they don't really want to work for it.

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That's according to a study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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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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Among other questions, the kids were asked to rate the importance of having "lots of money",

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and the stuff money can buy, like a house, a new car, or a "motor-powered recreational vehicle."

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Compared to the Baby Boomers that graduated in the '70s, Millennial teens place more stock in the trappings of success.

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And they also express less interest in working hard to obtain what they covet.

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And can you blame them?

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In an advertising-heavy consumer economy, why wouldn't you think that "the good life" involves getting handed the goods?

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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