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== Publications == * 1946 ''How to Pick a Mate'' β a guide co-authored with the head of the Penn State [[marriage counseling]] service * 1950 ''Animal IQ: The Human Side of Animals'' β a popular paperback on [[animal intelligence]] * 1957 ''The Hidden Persuaders'' β on the [[advertising]] industry β the first of a popular series of books on sociology topics ({{ISBN|0-671-53149-2}}) * 1959 ''The Status Seekers'' β describing American social stratification and behavior * 1960 ''[[The Waste Makers]]'' β criticizes [[planned obsolescence]] describing the impact of American productivity, especially on the national character * 1960 ''Oh, Happy, Happy, Happy'' β foreword by Vance Packard, with Charles Saxon * 1962 ''The Pyramid Climbers'' β describes the changing impact of American enterprise on managers, the structured lives of corporate executives and the conformity they need to advance in the hierarchy * 1964 ''[[The Naked Society]]'' β on the threats to [[privacy]] posed by new technologies such as computerized filing, modern [[surveillance]] techniques and methods for influencing human [[behavior]] * 1968 ''The Sexual Wilderness'' β on the [[sexual revolution]] of the 1960s and changes in male-female relationships * 1972 ''A Nation of Strangers'' β about the attrition of communal structure through frequent geographical transfers of corporate executives * 1977 ''The People Shapers'' β on the use of psychological & biological testing and experimentation to manipulate human behavior * 1983 ''Our Endangered Children'' β discusses growing up in a changing world, warning that American preoccupation with money, power, status, and sex ignored the needs of future generations * 1989 ''[[The Ultra Rich (book)|The Ultra Rich: How Much Is Too Much?]] '' β examines the lives of thirty American multimillionaires and their extravagances
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