Tim Kasser

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.

He has authored over 120 scientific articles and book chapters on materialism, values, goals, well-being, and environmental sustainability, among other topics. His first book, The High Price of Materialism, was published in 2002 ({{ISBN|978-0262611978}}); his second book (co-edited with Allen D. Kanner), Psychology and Consumer Culture, was released in 2004. In 2009 he co-authored a book (with Tom Crompton) Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity. In 2013 he wrote Lucy in the Mind of Lennon, a psychological biography that explores the meaning of John Lennon's song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Most recently, in 2018, he collaborated with the cartoonist Larry Gonick on HyperCapitalism: The modern economy, its values, and how to change them. Kasser's books have been translated into twelve languages.

Since the early 2000s, Kasser has consulted with activist and civil-society organizations who work against the commercialization of children and who work towards a more inwardly rich lifestyle than what is offered by consumerism. While at Knox College, Kasser lived with his wife, two sons, and assorted animals in the western Illinois countryside; he now lives in the Southern Tier region of New York state.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

Kasser initiated a line of research showing that people who pursue intrinsic goals for personal growth, affiliation, and community feeling report higher well-being than those focused on extrinsic goals for money, image, and status.{{Cite web|url=https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/nine_scientists_share_their_favorite_happiness_practices|title=Nine Scientists Share Their Favorite Happiness Practices|website=Greater Good|accessdate=26 April 2023}}

• Kasser, T. in Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context (Chirkov, VI; Ryan, RM & Sheldon, KM, eds), Capitalism and autonomy, 191-206 (Springer, Netherlands, 2011).{{cite news |author=Tom Crompton |title=Finding Cultural Values That Can Transform the Climate Change Debate |url=http://www.thesolutionsjournal.org/node/969 |access-date=26 April 2023 |work=Solutions |volume=2 |issue=4 |date=August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402122319/http://www.thesolutionsjournal.org/node/969 |archive-date=2 April 2012}}
• {{cite journal | last1=Kasser | first1=Tim | last2=Crompton | first2=Tom | last3=Linn | first3=Susan | date=March 2010 |title=Children, commercialism and environmental sustainability | journal=Solutions |volume=1 |number=2 |pages=14–17 | url=http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/571 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615174558/http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/571 | archive-date=15 June 2012 | url-status=dead | access-date=10 December 2021}}
• Kasser, T, Cohn, S, Kanner, AD, & Ryan, RM. Some costs of American corporate capitalism: a psychological exploration of value and goal conflicts. Psychological Inquiry 18, 1–22 (2007).
• Kasser, T, Ryan, RM, Couchman, CE & Sheldon, KM in Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World (Kasser, T & Kanner, AD, eds), Materialistic values: Their causes and consequences, 11–28 (American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2004).

• Anti-consumerism
• Cultural Creatives
• Economic materialism
• Post-materialism
• Time affluence
• Voluntary simplicity

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• [https://www.timkasser.org/ Tim Kasser's personal homepage]
• [https://www.knox.edu/academics/faculty/kasser-tim Knox College homepage about Tim Kasser]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJyqN8gGtU Capitalism, Commercialism, and Children's well-being: Empirical Analyses Across Wealthy Nations] video of a talk by Tim Kasser at the 2008 summit of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

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