But it isn't just the greedy consumer sect that's susceptible to materialism blues, says lead researcher Galen V. Bodenhausen; this applies to pretty
much anyone bombarded with messages that trigger the urge to acquire stuff:
The perpetrator was a sophisticated, tech - savvy and unscrupulous sort, based abroad, and while my lawyer friend pursued the matter through appropriate legal channels, getting the offending material removed from major search engines was a cumbersome, lengthy and expensive process, during which time
anyone searching my friend's name online was
bombarded with an array of falsified documents, quotes and images intended to inflict as
much reputational damage as possible.