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Substantive Interests: Public Health, Consumer Finance, Digital Technology, CRM; Methodologies: Choice Models, State Space Models, Bayesian Statistics, Experiments; Industries: Tobacco, 401(k), Ride Sharing, Education, Politics, Sports, Hospitality

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Forgiveness and Reconciliation; Moral Cognition and Behaviour; Status and Social Dominance; Organizational Justice; Workplace Victimization

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Emotions; Relationships; Self and Identity; Social Influence; Prosocial Consumption 
 

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Food Marketing; Hedonic Consumption; Sensory Perception.

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New product development; creativity; emotions in consumption contexts; social influence; social marketing.

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Consumer judgment and decision making; prediction and forecasting in consumers and managers; methods for analyzing individual and aggregate effect.

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Sustainability; product attribute framing; decisions about the future.

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Visual effects in marketing; consumer response to product design; social influence in consumption environments; verbal labels and sensory perception.

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New Technology/Product Adoption, Peer/Network Effects, Public Policy; Causal Inference, Structural Models, Applied Econometrics.

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Information Acquisition, Consumer Search, Dynamic Pricing, Bargaining, Continuous-time Games, Emerging Technologies.

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Judgment and Decision-Making, Framing & Context Effects, Digital Interfaces & Information Processing, Prosocial & Pro-environmental Behavior.

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Economics of Intellectual Property Rights; Counterfeiting and Brand Management; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Marketing Analytics.

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Organization Justice and Human Resource Management; Retaliation and Sabotage in the workplace; Mindfulness and Workplace Performance; Leadership.

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Ethics of new and emerging technologies, Emerging markets and institutions for carbon trading, Social determinants of health and GM crops and animals.

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Consumer behavior, social influence, social marketing, emotions.

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Structural modeling; internet advertising; social networks; CRM.

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Incentives, Salesforce Management, Advertising, Pricing; Choice Models, Dynamic Structural Models, Applied Game Theo.

Nathan has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the evolution of cooperation and includes topics such as: punishment, moral judgment, reputation, partner choice, leadership, and prestige.

Guanzhong has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Math from UNC Chapel Hill, an MA in Economics from Columbia University, and an MS in Marketing from VU Amsterdam. He joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2021 with a focus on consumer behaviour.

Julie has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the UBC Sauder School of Business. Her broad industry experience includes working as a management consultant at ZS, a demand planner at Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, and the operations manager of a small-scale food producer. Julie joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2020 with a focus on consumer behaviour.

Xixi has a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Actuarial Science from University of Waterloo and an MSc degree in Statistics from University of British Columbia. She joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in quantitative modeling in 2018.

Lucy has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Accounting from Boston College. After two years of working experience as an auditor at Deloitte, she joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2021, focusing on consumer behaviour.

Siddhanth has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of British Columbia, and joined UBC Sauder's Marketing PhD program in 2019. His research interests include sensory perception, hedonic consumption and social influences in the marketplace.

Ekin has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Master of Arts degree from Sabanci University. She is also a graduate of the Master of Management program at UBC Sauder, and joined the PhD program in 2016. Her research interests include social influences in consumer judgment & decision-making and goal pursuit.

Wade has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Brigham Young University. He began his PhD at the UBC Sauder School of Business in 2016. His research interests include creativity, time perception, and prosocial consumer behaviour.

William has a Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Economics, Policy, and Organizations from Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the PhD program in 2022. He is interested in prosocial behavior and consumer judgment and decision making.

Zining has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Master’s degree from Erasmus University. She joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2018. She is interested in digital marketing, cause marketing, econometric models and machine learning.

Fan has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University and an Mphil degree in Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program at 2016. She is interested in quantitative modelling.

Shangwen received his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Beijing Normal University, China, and joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2019. His research interests include understanding how social context and attribute framing affect one’s judgement and decision making.