Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Where Is the Psychology of Consumer Culture? / Tim Kasser, Allen D. Kanner -- Problems of Materialism, Capitalism, and Consumption -- Materialistic Values: Their Causes and Consequences / Tim Kasser, Richard M. Ryan, Charles E. Couchman, Kennon M. Sheldon -- Why Are Materialists Less Satisfied? / Emily G. Solberg, Edward Diener, Michael D. Robinson -- Globalization, Corporate Culture, and Freedom / Allen D. Kanner, Renee G. Soule -- Shopping for Sustainability: Psychological Solutions to Overconsumption / Deborah Du Nann Winter -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Materialism and the Evolution of Consciousness / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Mindfulness and Consumerism / Erika L. Rosenberg -- Lethal Consumption: Death-Denying Materialism / Sheldon Solomon, Jeffrey L. Greenberg, Thomas A. Pyszczynski -- Clinical Issues -- Acquisitive Desire: Assessment and Treatment / Jeffrey Kottler, Marilyn Montgomery, David Shepard -- Self-Control and Compulsive Buying / Ronald J. Faber -- Money, Meaning, and Identity: Coming to Terms With Being Wealthy / Stephen Goldbart, Dennis T. Jaffe, Joan DiFuria -- The Influence of Commercialism on Child Development -- The Commercialization of Childhood: Understanding the Problem and Finding Solutions / Diane E. Levin, Susan Linn -- Commercialism's Influence on Black Youth: The Case of Dress-Related Challenges / Velma D. LaPoint, Priscilla J. Hambrick-Dixon -- "The More You Subtract, the More You Add": Cutting Girls Down to Size / Jean Kilbourne.

"Psychology and Consumer Culture" provides an in-depth psychological analysis of consumerism that draws from a wide range of theoretical, clinical, and methodological approaches. The contributors demonstrate that consumerism and the culture that surrounds it exert profound and undesirable effects on both people's individual lives and on society as a whole.