I study how consumers think, feel, and decide — with a current focus on how people respond to artificial intelligence, how emotion and coping shape judgment, and how political ideology and well-being show up in the marketplace.
I am the Bielinski Family Faculty Scholar and Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois Chicago. I earned my Ph.D. at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and before joining UIC I was the Nestlé-Hustad Professor of Marketing at Indiana University. My work appears in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Psychological Science, among others, and I have served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.