Ryan Howell

Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University

San Francisco , California, United States of America

Research Expertise

Happiness
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
History and Philosophy of Science
Applied Psychology
Social Psychology
Economics and Econometrics
Sociology and Political Science
Marketing
Law
Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health (social science)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Religious studies
Business and International Management
Finance
Applied Mathematics
Education
Gender Studies
Computer Science Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Strategy and Management
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Developmental Neuroscience
Pharmacology (medical)
Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Neuroscience
Health Informatics
Biophysics
Surgery

About

Dr. Ryan Howell is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University. His research interests include the psychology of goals and how people pursue and achieve them. Dr. Howell received his PhD in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 2005.

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Publications

Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes
Health Psychology Review
2007
The relation of economic status to subjective well-being in developing countries: A meta-analysis.
Psychological Bulletin
2008
Comparing Three Methods to Measure a Balanced Time Perspective: The Relationship Between a Balanced Time Perspective and Subjective Well-Being
Journal of Happiness Studies
2012
Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being
Journal of Environmental Psychology
2014
Do time perspectives predict unique variance in life satisfaction beyond personality traits?
Personality and Individual Differences
2011
The mediators of experiential purchases: Determining the impact of psychological needs satisfaction and social comparison
The Journal of Positive Psychology
2009
The Big Five personality traits, material values, and financial well-being of self-described money managers
Journal of Economic Psychology
2012
To have in order to do: Exploring the effects of consuming experiential products on well‐being
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2014
The preference for experiences over possessions: Measurement and construct validation of the Experiential Buying Tendency Scale
The Journal of Positive Psychology
2012
Regularities in eyewitness identification.
Law and Human Behavior
2008
Reliability of Bidimensional Acculturation Scores
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
2009
Momentary Happiness: The Role of Psychological Need Satisfaction
Journal of Happiness Studies
2009
Validating a brief measure of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory
Time & Society
2013
Exploring the role of personality in the relationship between maximization and well-being
Personality and Individual Differences
2011
The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test and Its Shortened Form: A Meta-Analytic Inquiry Into Score Reliability
Substance Use & Misuse
2007
Sadness, identity, and plastic in over-shopping: The interplay of materialism, poor credit management, and emotional buying motives in predicting compulsive buying
Journal of Economic Psychology
2013
A validation of well-being and happiness surveys for administration via the Internet
Behavior Research Methods
2010
Money Buys Financial Security and Psychological Need Satisfaction: Testing Need Theory in Affluence
Social Indicators Research
2012
Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self
Review of General Psychology
2016
The hidden cost of value-seeking: People do not accurately forecast the economic benefits of experiential purchases
The Journal of Positive Psychology
2014
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t: Material buyers are not happier from material or experiential consumption
Journal of Research in Personality
2014
Does Wealth Enhance Life Satisfaction for People Who are Materially Deprived? Exploring the Association among the Orang asli of Peninsular Malaysia
Social Indicators Research
2006
Re-examining Religiosity as a Protective Factor: Comparing Alcohol Use by Self-Identified Religious, Spiritual, and Secular College Students
Journal of Religion and Health
2012
Moderators and mediators of pro-social spending and well-being: The influence of values and psychological need satisfaction
Personality and Individual Differences
2014
Time Perspectives and Subjective Well-Being: A Dual-Pathway Framework
Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application
2014
Your personality on a good day: How trait and state personality predict daily well-being
Journal of Research in Personality
2017
A Brief Money Management Scale and Its Associations With Personality, Financial Health, and Hypothetical Debt Repayment
Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning
2017
Buying Life Experiences for the “Right” Reasons: A Validation of the Motivations for Experiential Buying Scale
Journal of Happiness Studies
2012
Living in wealthy neighborhoods increases material desires and maladaptive consumption
Journal of Consumer Culture
2014
Psychometric properties of time attitude scores in young, middle, and older adult samples
Personality and Individual Differences
2016
The File Drawer Problem in Reliability Generalization
Educational and Psychological Measurement
2007
An exploration of personality–affect relations in daily life: Determining the support for the affect-level and affect-reactivity views
Personality and Individual Differences
2011
Cross-cultural similarities and differences in the experience of awe.
Emotion
2016
The portrait of a hedonist: The personality and ethics behind the value and maladaptive pursuit of pleasure
Personality and Individual Differences
2015
Score Reliability of Adolescent Alcohol Screening Measures: A Meta-Analytic Inquiry
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse
2008
Complex Interactions of Sexual Identity, Sex/Gender, and Religious/Spiritual Identity on Substance Use Among College Students
Sexuality Research and Social Policy
2011
More than happiness: The eudaimonic benefits of experiential products and experiential purchases
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2014
Assessing the Reliability of Scores Produced by the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory
Substance Use & Misuse
2009
Online Privacy Breaches, Offline Consequences: Construction and Validation of the Concerns with the Protection of Informational Privacy Scale
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
2020
Review: positive psychological well-being reduces the risk of mortality in both ill and healthy populations
Evidence-Based Mental Health
2009
Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Malaysia
Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science
2012
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Genetic Studies with African Immigrants as Research Subjects
Journal of the National Medical Association
2008
Validation of Eventserv‐Short
Managing Service Quality: An International Journal
2012
Author response for "Did zoom bomb? Negative video conferencing meetings during COVID ‐19 undermined worker subjective productivity"
Unknown Venue
2021
Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2021
Thinking about the past, present, and future: Time perspective and self‐esteem in adolescents, young adults, middle‐aged adults, and older adults
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
2021
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying
Psychological Science
2021
Benefits Associated With Experiential and Material Purchases May Depend on Culture
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2019
Financial Assessments and Investigation of Indicators of Financial Well-Being in an Emerging Market
SSRN Electronic Journal
2017
SPENDING WELL: HOW TIME PERSPECTIVES IMPACT CONSUMER VALUES AND FINANCIAL DECISIONS AMONG MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS
Research in Human Development
2019
Models of happiness: The role of personality traits and daily experience in understanding life satisfaction
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2006
Understanding Long-Term Trajectories in Web-Based Happiness Interventions: Secondary Analysis From Two Web-Based Randomized Trials
Journal of Medical Internet Research
2019
Video conferencing during emergency distance learning impacted student emotions during COVID-19
Computers in Human Behavior Reports
2022
Time beyond traits: Time perspective dimensions, personality traits, and substance use in adolescents
Personality and Individual Differences
2021
What help do you need?
Being Well in Academia
2020
The Impact of Positive Affect, Negative Affect, and Customer Satisfaction on the Future Behavioral Intentions of Sports Fans
The International Journal of Sport and Society
2010
Daily self-compassion protects Asian Americans/Canadians after experiences of COVID-19 discrimination: Implications for subjective well-being and health behaviors
Self and Identity
2021
Graphic and haptic simulation system for virtual laparoscopic rectum surgery
The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
2011
Awe, curiosity, and multicultural experience
Journal of Personality
2022
‘I have high self‐compassion’: A face‐valid single‐item self‐compassion scale for resource‐limited research contexts
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
2022
Happily Exploring Consumer Satisfaction: Revisiting the Traditional Business Model of Satisfaction in Sports
The International Journal of Sport and Society
2021
Corrigendum to “Sadness, identity, and plastic in over-shopping: The interplay of materialism, poor credit management, and emotional buying motives in predicting compulsive buying” [J. Econ. Psychol. 39 (2013) 113–125]
Journal of Economic Psychology
2015
Happiness ruins my time: Change of time perception while seeking happiness
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2014
Understanding Long-Term Trajectories in Web-Based Happiness Interventions: Secondary Analysis From Two Web-Based Randomized Trials (Preprint)
Unknown Venue
2018

Education

University of California, Riverside

PhD, Social / Personality Psychology Division / 2005

Riverside, California, United States of America

University of California, Riverside

MA, Social / Personality Psychology / 2002

Riverside, California, United States of America

Westmont College

BSc, Psychology / 1998

Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Experience

San Francisco State University, Department of Psychology

Associate Professor / 2012Present

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