Tim Kasser
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- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tim Kasser is an American psychologist and book author known for his work on materialism and well-being. Career Kasser received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Rochester in 1994, and after one additional year of teaching at Montana State University, he accepted a position at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was a professor of psychology. He retired from Knox in 2019 and was named Emeritus Professor.
Tim Kasser's Published Works
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Published Works
- Further Examining the American Dream: Differential Correlates of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals (1996) (2395)
- A dark side of the American dream: correlates of financial success as a central life aspiration. (1993) (2059)
- What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs. (2001) (1545)
- Coherence and congruence: two aspects of personality integration. (1995) (945)
- The High Price of Materialism (2002) (935)
- The Independent Effects of Goal Contents and Motives on Well-Being: It’s Both What You Pursue and Why You Pursue It (2004) (844)
- Are Psychological and Ecological Well-being Compatible? The Role of Values, Mindfulness, and Lifestyle (2005) (818)
- Pursuing Personal Goals: Skills Enable Progress, but Not all Progress is Beneficial (1998) (779)
- Employee and Supervisor Ratings of Motivation: Main Effects and Discrepancies Associated with Job Satisfaction and Adjustment in a Factory Setting1 (1993) (688)
- The structure of goal contents across 15 cultures. (2005) (678)
- Materialistic values and well‐being in business students (2002) (544)
- Be careful what you wish for: Optimal functioning and the relative attainment of intrinsic and extrinsic goals. (2001) (543)
- All goals are not created equal: An organismic perspective on the nature of goals and their regulation. (1996) (538)
- The relationship between materialism and personal well-being: A meta-analysis. (2014) (518)
- The relations of maternal and social environments to late adolescents' materialistic and prosocial values. (1995) (513)
- Of Wealth and Death: Materialism, Mortality Salience, and Consumption Behavior (2000) (436)
- Materialistic values: Their causes and consequences. (2004) (422)
- The Urge to Splurge: A Terror Management Account of Materialism and Consumer Behavior (2004) (409)
- Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts (2007) (389)
- Getting older, getting better? Personal strivings and psychological maturity across the life span. (2001) (386)
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals: Their Structure and Relationship to Well-Being in German and U.S. College Students (2000) (334)
- Personal goals and psychological growth: testing an intervention to enhance goal attainment and personality integration. (2002) (308)
- Materialistic Values and Goals. (2016) (287)
- The relationship between materialistic values and environmental attitudes and behaviors: A meta-analysis (2013) (278)
- Changes in materialism, changes in psychological well-being: Evidence from three longitudinal studies and an intervention experiment (2014) (264)
- Some Benefits of Being an Activist: Measuring Activism and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being (2009) (243)
- Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World (2003) (233)
- Sketches for a self-determination theory of values. (2002) (230)
- Psychological threat and extrinsic goal striving (2008) (225)
- Goals, Congruence, and Positive Well-Being: New Empirical Support for Humanistic Theories (2001) (205)
- Generational Changes in Materialism and Work Centrality, 1976-2007 (2013) (196)
- Can Coloring Mandalas Reduce Anxiety? (2005) (188)
- When what one has is enough: Mindfulness, financial desire discrepancy, and subjective well-being (2009) (172)
- Frugality, Generosity, and Materialism in Children and Adolescents (2005) (160)
- Self-Concept, Aspirations, and Weil-Being in South Korea and the United States (2003) (159)
- Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity (2009) (158)
- Time Affluence as a Path toward Personal Happiness and Ethical Business Practice: Empirical Evidence from Four Studies (2009) (152)
- Motivation and employee-supervisor discrepancies in a psychiatric vocational rehabilitation setting. (1992) (140)
- Psychological Need Satisfaction, Personal Well-Being, and Ecological Sustainability (2009) (133)
- Early Family Experiences and Adult Values: A 26-Year, Prospective Longitudinal Study (2002) (132)
- Cultural Values and the Well-Being of Future Generations: A Cross-National Study (2011) (126)
- Contextual risk and resiliency during late adolescence (1993) (124)
- Living both well and sustainably: a review of the literature, with some reflections on future research, interventions and policy (2017) (117)
- What Makes for a Merry Christmas? (2002) (115)
- Adult attachment and psychological well-being in cancer caregivers: the mediational role of spouses' motives for caregiving. (2008) (105)
- Differences in Life Satisfaction and School Satisfaction Among Adolescents From Three Nations: The Role of Perceived Autonomy Support (2011) (100)
- Doing one's duty: chronological age, felt autonomy, and subjective well‐being (2005) (86)
- The dreams of people high and low in materialism (2001) (84)
- Reproductive Freedom, Educational Equality, and Females' Preference for Resource-Acquisition Characteristics in Mates (1999) (82)
- Guns, Testosterone, and Aggression (2006) (74)
- Americans Recommend Smaller Ecological Footprints When Reminded of Intrinsic American Values of Self-Expression, Family, and Generosity (2011) (69)
- Human Identity: A Missing Link in Environmental Campaigning (2010) (68)
- Motivation and Employee-Supervisor Discrepancies in a Psychiatric Vocational Rehabilitation Setting (2005) (58)
- FRICTIONAL FORCE BETWEEN A SHARP ASPERITY AND A SURFACE STEP (1997) (55)
- Overcoming societal addictions: What can we learn from individual therapies? (2017) (51)
- Where is the psychology of consumer culture (2004) (50)
- Does autonomy increase with age? Comparing the goal motivations of college students and their parents (2006) (49)
- The Good Life or the Goods Life? Positive Psychology and Personal Well‐Being in the Culture of Consumption (2012) (46)
- Why do Adolescent Girls Idolize Male Celebrities? (2005) (44)
- Longitudinal predictors of adult socioeconomic attainment: The roles of socioeconomic status, academic competence, and mental health (2011) (43)
- Attitude change in response to information that male homosexuality has a biological basis. (1999) (41)
- The Urge to Splurge Revisited: Further Reflections on Applying Terror Management Theory to Materialism and Consumer Behavior (2004) (41)
- Two versions of the American dream: Which goals and values make for a high quality of life? (2000) (40)
- Measuring childhood materialism: Refining and validating Schor's Consumer Involvement Scale (2010) (39)
- Capitalism and Autonomy (2011) (36)
- Psychological Adaptation to the Threats and Stresses of a Four Degree World (2009) (36)
- Ecological Challenges, Materialistic Values, and Social Change (2011) (34)
- Lucy in the Mind of Lennon (2013) (34)
- Materialism, Spending, and Affect: An Event-Sampling Study of Marketplace Behavior and Its Affective Costs (2016) (30)
- Growing Up under Corporate Capitalism: The Problem of Marketing to Children, with Suggestions for Policy Solutions (2016) (28)
- Personal Goals, Socio-Economic Context and Happiness: Studying a Diverse Sample in Peru (2015) (26)
- Psychology and American Corporate Capitalism: Further Reflections and Future Directions (2007) (25)
- Increasing collaborative, pro-environmental activism: The roles of Motivational Interviewing, self-determined motivation, and self-efficacy (2018) (23)
- Non-becoming, alienated becoming, and authentic becoming: A goal-based approach (2004) (19)
- Aspirations and Well-Being in a Prison Setting1 (1996) (18)
- Can Thrift Bring Well‐being? A Review of the Research and a Tentative Theory (2011) (18)
- Communicating climate change to mass public audiences (2010) (17)
- Strangers in a Strange Land: Relations Between Perceptions of Others' Values and Both Civic Engagement and Cultural Estrangement (2019) (15)
- Materialistic Value Orientation (2011) (15)
- Integrating psychobiography into psychology's mainstream: Introduction to the special section. (2017) (15)
- Materialistic Values and Well-being (2016) (14)
- Teaching About Values and Goals (2014) (13)
- Mortality Salience Increases Defensive Distancing From People With Terminal Cancer (2014) (13)
- INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC GOALS : THEIR STRUCTURE AND RELATIONSHIP TO WELL-BEING (2000) (13)
- Pain and Insecurity, Love and Money (2008) (13)
- A public opinion survey of four future scenarios for Australia in 2050 (2019) (13)
- Is value-free science possible? (2000) (12)
- Guilt, shame, and apologizing behavior: A laboratory study (2018) (12)
- The effect of materialistic social models on teenagers’ materialistic aspirations: Results from priming experiments (2019) (11)
- Materialism and Living Well (2019) (11)
- No Cause is an Island: How People are Influenced by Values Regardless of the Cause (2014) (11)
- Personal Aspirations, the 'Good Life', and the Law (2005) (10)
- Longitudinal Pathways between Maternal Mental Health in Infancy and Offspring Romantic Relationships in Adulthood: A 30-year Prospective Study (2011) (9)
- Openness to experience predicts intrinsic value shifts after deliberating one’s own death (2018) (7)
- Values and Prosperity (2007) (7)
- Values and Human Wellbeing (2011) (6)
- Effects of sexual orientation of interviewer on expressed attitudes toward male homosexuality. (1996) (6)
- Materialism: A teaching tool for disengaging from materialism: The commercial media fast. (2013) (5)
- Limitations of Environmental Campaigning Based on Values for Money, Image, and Status Eight Psychologists Reflect on the Disagreement between the Value Modes and Common Cause Approaches (2011) (5)
- Societal addiction therapy: from motivational interviewing to Community Engaged Scenario Planning (2017) (5)
- Goals for Good: Testing an Intervention to Reduce Materialism in Three European Countries. (2020) (4)
- Scanning force and friction microscopy at highly oriented polycrystalline graphite and CuP2(100) surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum (1996) (4)
- Instruction in Problem-Solving Skills Increases the Hedonic Balance of Highly Neurotic Individuals (2013) (4)
- Values, food and bags: A study of consumption decisions in a laboratory supermarket (2013) (4)
- Environmental Correlates of Adolescent’ Materialism: Interpersonal Role Models, Media Exposure, and Family Socio-economic Status (2022) (3)
- The Science of Values in the Culture of Consumption (2015) (3)
- Americans recommend smaller ecological footprints when reminded of traditional American values (2011) (2)
- The valuing process: A study of favorite songs and the inner experience of persons diagnosed with schizophrenia (1992) (2)
- I-D Compensation Theory and Intrinsic/Extrinsic Goals (2016) (2)
- A Values-Based Set of Solutions for the Next Generation (2014) (2)
- Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility (2013) (1)
- I Collect Data (2003) (1)
- Need-Satisfaction Questionnaire (2012) (1)
- Personal Goals, Socio-Economic Context and Happiness: Studying a Diverse Sample in Peru (2014) (0)
- Environmental Correlates of Adolescent’ Materialism: Interpersonal Role Models, Media Exposure, and Family Socio-economic Status (2021) (0)
- The Next Songs (2013) (0)
- Recipe for a Song (2013) (0)
- The Man, His Recent Past, and His Son’s Picture (2013) (0)
- Aspiration Index--Modified Version (2021) (0)
- P ERSONAL A SPIRATIONS , THE “ G OOD L IFE ” AND THE (2005) (0)
- Changes in materialism, changes in psychological well-being: Evidence from three longitudinal studies and an intervention experiment (2013) (0)
- An Experimental Laboratory Test of the Effects of Alternative Indicators of Progress (2018) (0)
- Celebrity Idolization Scale (2013) (0)
- Materialism, Spending, and Affect: An Event-Sampling Study of Marketplace Behavior and Its Affective Costs (2015) (0)
- Human Identity : by Tom Crompton and Tim Kasser A Missing Link in Environmental Campaigning (2010) (0)
- LENNON, LuCy, AND THE EXPLORATION OF AN ENIGMATIC LIFE: METHODS FOR MEANING (2014) (0)
- The Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Human Wellbeing (2011) (0)
- "Approaches to the Future: The Essential 12 Percent of Thoughts": Erratum. (1995) (0)
- An Experimental Laboratory Test of the Effects of Alternative Indicators of Progress (2019) (0)
- Approaches to the Future: The Essential 12 Percent of Thoughts. (1995) (0)
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