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59
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38341
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3613
National Ranking
2025

Overview

Tim Kasser is affiliated with Knox College in the United States and focuses primarily on research in the field of psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including applied psychology, social psychology, marketing, and clinical psychology.

Their research topics primarily cover behavioral health and interventions, cultural differences and values, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, as well as eating disorders and behaviors. These areas reflect a broad interest in how psychological factors influence individual and social behavior in diverse contexts.

Tim Kasser has contributed to recent publications that include:

  • Goals for Good: Testing an intervention to reduce materialism in three European countries, 2023, Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey)
  • Environmental Correlates of Adolescent' Materialism: Interpersonal Role Models, Media Exposure, and Family Socio-economic Status, 2021, Journal of Child and Family Studies

The publication venues where Tim Kasser has appeared include:

  • Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey)
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies

Frequent collaborators in their work are:

  • Natasha Parker
  • Anat Bardi
  • Angela Druckman
  • Birgitta Gatersleben
  • Anna Maria Zawadzka

Best Publications

  • Further Examining the American Dream: Differential Correlates of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals

    Tim Kasser;Richard M. Ryan

  • A Dark Side of the American Dream: Correlates of Financial Success as a Central Life Aspiration

    Tim Kasser;Richard M. Ryan

  • What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Andrew J. Elliot;Youngmee Kim;Tim Kasser

  • The High Price of Materialism

    Tim Kasser

  • Coherence and congruence: two aspects of personality integration.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Tim Kasser

  • Are Psychological and Ecological Well-being Compatible? The Role of Values, Mindfulness, and Lifestyle

    Kirk Warren Brown;Tim Kasser

  • The Independent Effects of Goal Contents and Motives on Well-Being: It’s Both What You Pursue and Why You Pursue It

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Richard M. Ryan;Edward L. Deci;Tim Kasser

  • Pursuing Personal Goals: Skills Enable Progress, but Not all Progress is Beneficial

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Tim Kasser

  • All goals are not created equal: An organismic perspective on the nature of goals and their regulation.

    Richard M. Ryan;Kennon M. Sheldon;Tim Kasser;Edward L. Deci

  • Employee and Supervisor Ratings of Motivation: Main Effects and Discrepancies Associated with Job Satisfaction and Adjustment in a Factory Setting1

    Barbara C. Ilardi;Dean Leone;Tim Kasser;Richard M. Ryan

  • The Structure of Goal Contents Across 15 Cultures.

    Frederick M. E. Grouzet;Tim Kasser;Aaron Ahuvia;José Miguel Fernández Dols

  • Be careful what you wish for: Optimal functioning and the relative attainment of intrinsic and extrinsic goals.

    Tim Kasser;Richard M. Ryan

  • The relationship between materialism and personal well-being: A meta-analysis.

    Helga Dittmar;Rod Bond;Megan Hurst;Tim Kasser

  • Materialistic values and well‐being in business students

    Tim Kasser;Aaron Ahuvia

  • The relations of maternal and social environments to late adolescents' materialistic and prosocial values.

    Tim Kasser;Richard M. Ryan;Melvin Zax;Arnold J. Sameroff

  • Materialistic values: Their causes and consequences.

    Tim Kasser;Richard M. Ryan;Charles E. Couchman;Kennon M. Sheldon

  • The Urge to Splurge: A Terror Management Account of Materialism and Consumer Behavior

    Jamie Arndt;Sheldon Solomon;Tim Kasser;Kennon M. Sheldon

  • Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts

    Tim Kasser;Steve Cohn;Allen D. Kanner;Richard M. Ryan

  • Of Wealth and Death: Materialism, Mortality Salience, and Consumption Behavior

    Tim Kasser;Kennon M. Sheldon

  • Getting older, getting better? Personal strivings and psychological maturity across the life span.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Tim Kasser

  • Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World

    Tim Kasser;Allen D. Kanner

Frequent Co-Authors

Kennon M. Sheldon
Kennon M. Sheldon University of Missouri
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Arnold J. Sameroff
Arnold J. Sameroff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Youngmee Kim
Youngmee Kim University of Miami
Edward L. Deci
Edward L. Deci University of Rochester
Kirk Warren Brown
Kirk Warren Brown Carnegie Mellon University
Helga Dittmar
Helga Dittmar University of Sussex
Katherine L. Rosenblum
Katherine L. Rosenblum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Netta Weinstein
Netta Weinstein University of Reading
Andrew J. Elliot
Andrew J. Elliot University of Rochester

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