Aaron Garvey's paper (with Margaret Maloy, Penn State University, and Baba Shiv, Stanford University), “The Jilting Effect: Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Consequences for Preference,” is forthcoming at the Journal of Marketing Research.
Adam Craig's paper (with Marisabel Romero, Colorado State), “Costly Curves: How Human-Like Shapes Can Increase Spending,” is forthcoming at the Journal of Consumer Research.
Anita Lee-Post and her team (Brent Sturlaugson and Bruce Swetnam from Architecture, Rebekah Radtke from Interior Design, and Yoonbai Kim from Economics) received the University's 2017 sustainability challenge grant to fund a research project, “Measuring Up: Sustainability Assessment of Campus Buildings at the University of Kentucky”. The goals of the project are (1) to expand the definition and evaluation of sustainability in the built environment to include environmental, social, and economic factors, and (2) to create a comprehensive metric that considers triple bottom line impacts.
Dr. Meike Eilert, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will join the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain in July, 2017.
Doctoral student Alexander Ziegler was selected to receive travel stipend by the Association for Consumer Research (ACR). The ACR grants 20 travel stipends to Ph.D. students with an accepted competitive paper, working paper, special session, or film. The 2016 ACR Conference takes place in Berlin (Germany) and Alexander is scheduled to present “How Embarrassing for You (And Me): The Nature of Observer Embarrassment” (with John Peloza and Alexis Allen) in the competitive paper session.
