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Marsha L. Richins publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marsha L. Richins sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 54 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Marsha L. Richins D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marsha L. Richins sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Marsha L. Richins is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and business, management, and accounting, with significant contributions in subfields such as marketing, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, human-computer interaction, and social psychology.

Their scholarly work engages with several main topics, including:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Color perception and design
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies

Recent publications by Marsha L. Richins include the following papers:

  • Object attachment, transitory attachment, and materialism in childhood (2020), published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Visualization ability and the elaborations that sustain product desire (2021), published in Psychology and Marketing

Their work is featured in publication venues such as Current Opinion in Psychology and Psychology and Marketing. Richins has frequently collaborated with co-authors Lan Nguyen Chaplin and Bitty Balducci.

Best Publications

  • A Consumer Values Orientation for Materialism and Its Measurement: Scale Development and Validation

    Marsha L. Richins;Scott Dawson

  • Negative Word-of-Mouth by Dissatisfied Consumers: A Pilot Study:

    Marsha L. Richins

  • Measuring Emotions in the Consumption Experience

    Marsha L. Richins

  • The Material Values Scale: Measurement Properties and Development of a Short Form

    Marsha L. Richins

  • Valuing things: The public and private meanings of possessions.

    Marsha L. Richins

  • Social Comparison and the Idealized Images of Advertising

    Marsha L. Richins

  • A Theoretical Model for the Study of Product Importance Perceptions

    Peter H. Bloch;Marsha L Richins

  • Special possessions and the expression of material values.

    Marsha L. Richins

  • After the New Wears Off: The Temporal Context of Product Involvement

    Marsha L. Richins;Peter H. Bloch

  • The Role of Evolvement and Opinion Leadership in Consumer Word-Of-Mouth: an Implicit Model Made Explicit

    Marsha L. Richins;Teri Root-Shaffer

  • Some theoretical and popular notions concerning materialism.

    Susan Fournier;Marsha L. Richins

  • Media, Materialism, and Human Happiness

    Marsha L. Richins

  • A Multivariate Analysis of Responses to Dissatisfaction

    Marsha L. Richins

  • Shopping Without Purchase: an Investigation of Consumer Browsing Behavior

    Peter H. Bloch;Marsha L. Richins

  • An Analysis of Consumer Interaction Styles in the Marketplace

    Marsha L. Richins

  • Word of Mouth Communication As Negative Information

    Marsha L. Richins

  • Post-purchase product satisfaction: Incorporating the effects of involvement and time

    Marsha L. Richins;Peter H. Bloch

  • How Enduring and Situational Involvement Combine to Create Involvement Responses

    Marsha L. Richins;Peter H. Bloch;Edward F. McQuarrie

  • Materialism and economic psychology

    Marsha L. Richins;Floyd W. Rudmin

  • Social Comparison, Advertising, and Consumer Discontent

    Marsha L. Richins

Frequent Co-Authors

C. F. Sirmans
C. F. Sirmans Florida State University

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