a revolution of values: psychological research on materialism &...
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A Revolution of Values:
Psychological Research on
Materialism & its Alternatives
Tim Kasser
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
We as a nation must undergo
a radical revolution of values.
We must rapidly begin the shift
from a “thing-oriented society”
to a “person-oriented society.”
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Materialism’s allure
• The percentage of incoming American
First-year college students reporting it is
“very important” or “essential” to be
“financially well-off”:
– 42% in the mid 1960s
– 75% in the mid 2000s
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Corporate Power
• In 2000, 52 of the largest 100 economic
organizations in the world were not nations,
but corporations (Mander et al., 2001)
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Political Discourse
• “…the American people have got to go about their business. We cannot let the terrorists achieve the objective of frightening our nation to the point where we don’t conduct business, where people don’t shop” (reported in The New York Times, October 12, 2001)
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Messages
• Can purchase happiness
• Important to work and consume
• Life is meaningful and people are
successful to the extent they have money,
possessions, and the right image
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Is this true?
• Psychological costs
• Social costs
• Ecological costs
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Measuring Materialism
• Values strategy (e.g., Kasser & Ryan, 1993, 1996)
• Rate many goals, guiding principles, (e.g., family, spirituality, fun, etc.)
• Sample materialistic items• You will have a job that pays well
• You will have many expensive possessions
• You will achieve the “look” you’ve been after
• You will be admired by many people
• Examine relative importance of goals
• All of us are somewhat materialistic
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Measuring Materialism
• Survey methods (e.g., Belk, 1985, Richins & Dawson, 1992)
• Rate agreement with statements• Sample Items
– My life would be better if I owned certain things I don’t have.
– I like to own things that impress people.
– I like a lot of luxury in my life.
– I would rather buy something I need than borrow it from someone else.
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Psychological Costs
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Diminished HappinessKasser & Ryan, 1993, 1996, 2001; Sheldon & Kasser, 1995, 1998, 2001
• Higher:
– Anxiety
– Depression
– Physical Symptoms
– Unpleasant emotions
– Drug & Alcohol Use
• Lower
– Self-actualization
– Vitality
– Life Satisfaction
– Pleasant Emotions
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Other researchers
• Consumer Research Literature
• Cohen & Cohen (1996) concluded that:
– “The priority put on being rich was associated
positively to almost every … diagnosis assessed
in this study.”
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Found in many samples
• Types of people
– Middle & High School
students
– College Students
– Adults
– Business People
• Countries
– Australia
– Denmark
– Germany
– Hungary
– India
– Russia
– Singapore
– S. Korea
– United Kingdom
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Social Costs
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Social Behavior
• Less pro-social and more anti-social behavior
– Cohen & Cohen (1996); McHoskey (1999); Kasser & Ryan (1993)
• More objectification
– Less empathy (Sheldon & Kasser, 1995)
– More Machiavellian (McHoskey, 1999)
– More competitive (Sheldon et al., 2000)
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Social Behavior
• Priming studies (Vohs et al., 2006)
– Unscramble sentences
– Control sentence: “cold it desk outside is”
– Money sentence: “high a salary desk paying”
– Measured various helping behaviors
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Time spent helping
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Time spent helping
Money
No Money
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# Pencils Gathered
17
17.5
18
18.5
19
19.5
20
# Pencils gathered
Money
No Money
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Amount Donated
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
Monetary Donation
Money
No Money
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Ecological Costs
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Valuing the Earth less
• Schwartz (1994)
– Less value on protecting the environment,
world of beauty, and unity with nature
• Saunders & Munro (2000)
– Lower biophilia
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Ecological Footprint
• Number of acres people use to support their
lifestyle
• Transportation, food, housing
• Brown & Kasser (2005)
– Higher materialism, higher Ecological
Footprint
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Tragedy of the Commons
• Sheldon & McGregor (2000) assigned people to one of three groups:
– All high materialistic
– 2 high/ 2 low materialistic
– All low materialistic
• Played a forest-management game
• High materialist groups harvested more forest more quickly
• And made less profit
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Tragedy of the Commons
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Alternatives to Materialism
• Need to decrease the extent to which the
environment encourages materialistic pursuits
• Need to pursue an alternative set of values and
aims that oppose materialism
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Organization of GoalsGrouzet, Kasser et al. (2005)
• Assessed aspirations in 11 domains
– e.g., Spirituality, Hedonism, Affiliation, Health,
etc.
• >1800 College students in 15 nations
• Circular Stochastic Modeling
– Adjacent goals are consistent
– Opposing goals are conflictual
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Self-transcendence
Physical self
Extrinsic Intrinsic
Spirituality
Community
Affiliation
Self-acceptance
Physical health
SafetyHedonism
Financial
success
Image
Popularity
Conformity
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Self-transcendence
Physical self
Extrinsic Intrinsic
Spirituality
Community
Affiliation
Self-acceptance
Physical health
SafetyHedonism
Financial
success
Image
Popularity
Conformity
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Self-transcendence
Physical self
Extrinsic Intrinsic
Spirituality
Community
Affiliation
Self-acceptance
Physical health
SafetyHedonism
Financial
success
Image
Popularity
Conformity
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Intrinsic ValuesKasser & Ryan (1996)
• Self-acceptance
“I will follow my interests and curiosity where
they take me.”
• Affiliation
“I will express my love for special people.”
• Community Feeling
“I will help the world become a better place.”
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Psychological Benefits
• More happiness
• More life satisfaction
• Higher vitality
• Less depression
• Less anxiety
• Fewer physical
symptoms
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Social Benefits
• More prosocial
behavior
• More empathy
• More cooperation
• Less antisocial
behavior
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Ecological Benefits
• More environmentally
friendly behaviors
• Lower Ecological
Footprint
• Less consumption in
forest dilemma game
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Policy Avenues
• Kids and Marketing
• Voluntary Simplicity
• Time Affluence
• Varieties of Capitalism
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Kids and Marketing
• Children in schools with Channel One have
stronger consumer orientation (Brand &
Greenberg, 1994)
• Children who watch more TV have higher
consumer values and lower well-being (Nairn,
Omrod, & Bottomley, 2007; Schor, 2004)
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TV Use
High
Consumer
Orientation
TV Use and Consumer OrientationSchor (2004)
Other
Media
Use
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TV Use
High
Consumer
Orientation
Parental
Conflict
Anxiety
TV Use and Consumer OrientationSchor (2004)
Other
Media
Use
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Kids & Marketing - Policies
• Tax ads to children
• Remove ads from schools
• Ban advertising to kids
• Restore FTC’s power to regulate advertising
to kids
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Voluntary Simplicity
• Lifestyle focused on being “inwardly rich”
and caring about personal growth, family,
volunteer activity, and ecology (Elgin,
1993)
– Work, earn, & consume less
• Brown & Kasser (2005) compared 200
VSrs with 200 mainstream U.S. citizens
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VS
Lifestyle
Happiness
Ecologically
Responsible
Behavior
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VS
Lifestyle
High
Intrinsic &
Low
Extrinsic
Values
Happiness
Ecologically
Responsible
Behavior
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Voluntary Simplicity - Policies
• Educate people about happiness, values, &
ecology
• Educate people about debt
• Reform Health Insurance
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Time Affluence
• Time Poverty in America
– Americans work 160 hours per year more than
30 years ago
– Americans work ~9 weeks more per year than
most Europeans
• Time Affluence studies (Kasser & Sheldon,
in press)
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Time Affluence - Study 4
• 145 adults
• Completed measures of life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect
• Completed Time Affluence measure
– I have had plenty of spare time
– I have felt like things have been very hectic
• Mediational variable
– Need satisfaction from Intrinsic pursuits
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TA SWB
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TA SWBIntrinsicPursuits
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Ecological Benefits of
Time Affluence
• Kasser & Brown (2003)
• Same sample of VSrs and Mainstream Americans
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Ecological Benefits of
Time Affluence
• Rosnick & Weisbrot (2006)
• “If, by 2050, the world works as many hours as do Americans, it could consume 15-30 percent more energy than it would by following Europe. The additional carbon emissions could result in 1 to 2 degrees Celsius in extra global warming.”
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Time Affluence - Policies
• Provide family leave
• Pass minimum vacation laws
• Enact overtime laws
• Move towards shorter work weeks
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Varieties of CapitalismHall & Gingerich (2004)
• Liberal Markets
• Competitive Strategies
• High focus on profit
• USA & UK
• Co-Ordinated Markets
• Strategic Solutions
• Lower focus on profit
• Germany & Austria
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Varieties of Capitalism
• Kasser (in prep) studied 20 economically developed nations
• Assessed extent to which institutions focus on profit (liberal vs. co-ordinated market economies; Hall & Gingerich, 2004)
• Assessed citizens’ ideologies focusing on profit (values for achievement and power; Schwartz, 2007)
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Results
• Significant associations with
– Ecological Footprint
– UNICEF Children’s Well-Being Ranking
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Ef vs Capitalism
U.S.A.
CanadaNew Zealand
Australia
United KingdomIreland
NorwayFrance
Finland
Sweden
SwitzerlandSpain
PortugalDenmarkJapan Austria
GermanyBelgium
NetherlandsItaly
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2
Capitalism
Ef
Countries
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EF vs Powach
U.S.A.
CanadaNew Zealand
Australia
United KingdomJapanPortugal
Ireland
Norway France
Finland
Italy
Belgium
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
SwitzerlandDenmark
Austria
Sweden
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
2.5 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.5
Powach
EF Countries
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Unicef vs Capitalism
AustriaPortugalFrance
GermanyBelgium
Italy
Norway
United Kingdom
U.S.A.
Canada
Ireland
SwitzerlandSpain
FinlandDenmark
FranceNetherlands
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
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Capitalism
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Countries
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Unicef vs Powach
Finland
Ireland
Denmark
NorwaySpain Switzerland
SwedenNetherlands
U.S.A.United Kingdom
Austria PortugalFrance
GermanyCanada
ItalyBelgium
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
2.5 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.5
Powach
Un
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Countries
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Results
• Significant Correlations with
– % eating meals with parents
– % in relative poverty
– % feel like “an outsider”
– Infant mortality rate
– Teen pregnancy rate
– % Overweight
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Varieties of Capitalism -
Policies
• Increase national control of labor relations
• Move from a shareholder to a stakeholder model – “economic democracy”
• Change laws regarding corporate aims and power - return to Smith’s moral virtues
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
We as a nation must undergo
a radical revolution of values.
We must rapidly begin the shift
from a “thing-oriented society”
to a “person-oriented society.”