Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World
This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well-being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is
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Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World
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Editor Miriam Tatzel Empire State College State University of New York Nanuet New York USA
ISBN 978-94-007-7367-7 ISBN 978-94-007-7368-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7368-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2013949030 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
1 Consumption and Well-Being, An Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miriam Tatzel Part I Money and Consumption for Well-Being 2 Money for Happiness: The Hedonic Benefits of Thrift. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Joseph Chancellor and Sonja Lyubomirsky 3 Getting the Most for the Money: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Travis J. Carter and Thomas Gilovich 4 Loneliness, Material Possession Love, and Consumers’ Physical-Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 John L. Lastovicka and Laurel Anderson Part II Individual and Cultural Variations 5 Value Seekers, Big Spenders, Non-Spenders, and Experiencers: Consumption, Personality, and Well-Being. . . . . . . 75 Miriam Tatzel 6 Money, Materialism, and the Good Life: Cultural Perspectives . . . . . 109 Christie Napa Scollon and Derrick Wirtz Part III Consumption and Sustainable Well-Being 7 Happy Planet, Happy Economy, Happy Consumers?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Charles Seaford 8 Measuring What Matters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Eric Zencey v
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9 Epilogue-Confessions of a Closet Materialist: Lessons Learned about Money, Possessions, and Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Miriam Tatzel Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Contributors
Laurel Anderson W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4106, USA e-mail: [email protected] Travis J. Carter Department of Psychology, Colby College, 5550 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME 04901, USA e-mail: [email protected] Joseph Chancellor Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA e-mail: [email protected] Thomas Gilovich Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA e-mail: [email protected] John L. Lastovicka W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-41
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