Katherine White

Katherine White

BA (SFU), MA (Waterloo), PhD (UBC)
Associate Professor, Marketing Division

Contact Information

Office Henry Angus 573
Email katherine.white@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests

  • Social Influence
  • Social Marketing
  • Sustainability
  • Prosocial Consumption
  • Corporate Social Responsibility

Courses Currently Taught 

  • Buyer Behaviour (B-com)
  • Sustainability Marketing (B-com)
  • Integrated Marketing Communication (MBA)

Selected Teaching and Research Awards

  • Outstanding Scholar Award, Haskayne School of Business
  • Future Fund Fellow, Haskayne School of Business
  • Young Scholar, Marketing Science Institute

Research Grants

  • "The Dos and Don'ts" of Normative Influence:  When Do (and Don't) Normative Messages Lead to Prosocial Actions? (2011) - SSHRC Grant 
  • CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund Grant (2011)
  • Resilience to Social Identity Threat:  When Consumers Bolster Their Product Preferences (2008) - SSHRC Grant

Selected Publications

  • White, Katherine, Argo, J., and Sengupta, J. (Forthcoming) "Associative Versus Dissociative Responses to Social Identity Threat: The Role of Consumer Self-Construal,"  Journal of Consumer Research.
  • Argo, J., White, Katherine (2012)  "When Do Consumers Eat More? The Role of Appearance Self-Esteem and Food Packaging Cues,"  Journal of Marketing, 76 (2), 67-80.
  • White, Katherine, Rhiannon MacDonnell, and John Ellard (2012), "Belief in a Just World and Consumer Intentions and Behaviors Toward Ethical  Products," Journal of Marketing, 76(1), 103-118.
  • White, Katherine, and Jennifer J. Argo (2011), "When Imitation Doesn't Flatter: The Role of Consumer Distinctiveness in Responses to Mimicry,"  Journal of Consumer Research, 38 (December), 667-680.  
  • White, Katherine, Rhiannon MacDonnell, and Darren W. Dahl (2011) "It's the Mindset the Matters: The Role of Contrual Level and Message Framing in Influencing Consumer Efficacy and Conservation Behaviors Over the Long-Term,"  Journal of Marketing Research, 48 (3), 472-485.  

Links and Other Information

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