Ecological challenges, materialistic values, and social change

Positive Psychology as Social Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 89-108

  Kasser, Tim ^a  

^a KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84860348713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9938-9_6     Document Type: Chapter

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