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Howell, R. T., Kurai, M , & Tam, L. (2013). Money buys financial security and psychological need satisfaction: Testing need theory in affluence. Social Indicators Research, 110, 17-29.
Donnelly, G., Ksendzova, M., & Howell, R.T. (2013). Sadness, identity, and plastic in over-shopping: The interplay of materialism, poor-credit management, and emotional buying motivation in predicting compulsive buying. Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 113-125.
Donnelly, G., Iyer, R., & Howell, R.T. (2012). The Big Five personality traits, material values, financial well-being of self-described money managers. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33, 1129-1142.
Howell, R. T., Pchelin, P, & Iyer, R. (2012). The preference for experiences over possessions: Measurement and construct validation of the experiential buying tendency scale. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 7, 57-71.
Howell, R. T & Hill, G. (2009). The mediators of experiential purchases: Determining the impact of psychological needs satisfaction and social comparison. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 511 – 522.
Howell, R. T., & Howell, C. J. (2008). The relation of economic status to subjective well-being in developing countries: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 536 – 560.
Howell, C. J., Howell, R. T., & Schwabe, K. A. (2006). Is income related to happiness for the materially deprived? Examining the association between wealth and life satisfaction among indigenous Malaysian farmers. Social Indicators Research, 76, 499 – 524.
Howell, R. T. & Rodzon, K.S. (2011). An exploration of personality-affect relations in daily life: Determining the support for the affect-level and affect-reactivity views. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 797-801.
Zhang, J. & Howell, R. T. (2011). Do time perspectives predict unique variance in life satisfaction beyond personality traits?Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 1261 – 1266.
Purvis, A., Howell, R. T., & Iyer, R. (2011). Exploring the role of personality in the relationship between maximization and well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 370 – 375.
Howell, R. T., Rodzon, K. S. Kurai, M., & Sanchez, A. H. (2010). A validation of well-being and happiness surveys for administration via the Internet. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 775-784.
Howell, R. T., Kern, M. L., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2007). Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes. Health Psychology Review, 1, 83 – 136.