BOOKS by Tim Kasser

The High Price of Materialism more books like this

by Tim Kasser

In this volume, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to improve our well-being. Kasser goes beyond these ...

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Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World more books like this

by Tim Kasser, Allen D Kanner

This book provides an in-depth analysis of consumerism that draws from a wide range of theoretical, clinical and methodological approaches. Contributors demonstrate that consumerism and the culture that surrounds it exert profound and often undesirable effects on both people's individual lives and on society as a whole. Far from being distant ...

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Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity

by Tom Crompton, Tim Kasser

In addressing environmental challenges like climate change, governments, charities and business tend to focus either on changing policy or business practice, or on urging individuals to adopt different behaviour. The role of human identity is largely absent from the debate. And yet, our identities - who we see ourselves as being - have a profound ...

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