Dr. Aparna Labroo, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Research Expertise

Business and International Management
Marketing
Social Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Applied Psychology
Education
Sensory Systems
Artificial Intelligence

About

Dr. Aparna Labroo is a renowned researcher and expert in the field of consumer behavior. She received her Ph.D. in Consumer Behavior from Cornell University in 2004. She is currently a highly respected Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With a passion for understanding how consumers make decisions, Dr. Labroo has conducted extensive research on the psychological processes behind consumer behavior. Her work has been published in top academic journals and has won numerous awards and accolades. Dr. Labroo's expertise lies in the areas of persuasion and influence, and in uncovering the emotional, cognitive, and motivational influences underlying the choices people make, especially in the food, product, lifestyle, financial, and prosocial domains. She is known for her innovative and interdisciplinary approach to understanding consumer behavior, incorporating insights from psychology, policy, and marketing. As a professor, Dr. Labroo is highly regarded for her dynamic teaching style and has been recognized with multiple teaching awards. She is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for various companies and organizations, in the B2C and B2B space and with non-Profits. Her interest is in fostering innovation and helping firms understand how to effectively target their consumers, and how to design experiences that maximize the customer lifetime value. As a leading expert in consumer behavior, with contributions that have significantly advanced the understanding of how people make decisions, her work has not only shaped the field of marketing but has also had a broader impact on society, helping businesses and people make more informed choices.

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Publications

The Effect of Conceptual and Perceptual Fluency on Brand Evaluation
Journal of Marketing Research
2004
Of Frog Wines and Frowning Watches: Semantic Priming, Perceptual Fluency, and Brand Evaluation
Journal of Consumer Research
2008
Be better or be merry: How mood affects self-control.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2007
Between Two Brands: A Goal Fluency Account of Brand Evaluation
Journal of Marketing Research
2006
Psychological Distancing: Why Happiness Helps You See the Big Picture
Journal of Consumer Research
2009
The “Instrumentality” Heuristic
Psychological Science
2009
Some Ways in Which Positive Affect Facilitates Decision Making and Judgment
Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research
2003
Gut Liking for the Ordinary: Incorporating Design Fluency Improves Automobile Sales Forecasts
Marketing Science
2011
Making Products Feel Special: When Metacognitive Difficulty Enhances Evaluation
Journal of Marketing Research
2010
From Firm Muscles to Firm Willpower: Understanding the Role of Embodied Cognition in Self-Regulation
Journal of Consumer Research
2011
Lay Theories of Emotion Transience and the Search for Happiness: A Fresh Perspective on Affect Regulation: Table 1
Journal of Consumer Research
2009
An Influence of Product and Brand Name on Positive Affect: Implicit and Explicit Measures
Motivation and Emotion
2004
Incandescent affect: Turning on the hot emotional system with bright light
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2013
From Inherent Value to Incentive Value: When and Why Pointless Effort Enhances Consumer Preference
Journal of Consumer Research
2011
Half the Thrill Is in the Chase: Twisted Inferences from Embodied Cognitions and Brand Evaluation
Journal of Consumer Research
2010
The Orientation-Matching Hypothesis: An Emotion-Specificity Approach to Affect Regulation
Journal of Marketing Research
2010
Embodiment in judgment and choice.
Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
2012
Metacognition and consumer judgment: fluency is pleasant but disfluency ignites interest
Current Opinion in Psychology
2016
The Influence of Experience and Sequence of Conflicting Emotions on Ad Attitudes
Journal of Consumer Research
2007
Cueing Morality: The Effect of High-Pitched Music on Healthy Choice
Journal of Marketing
2019
A Tutorial in Consumer Research: Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Appreciation in Deductive-Conceptual Consumer Research
Journal of Consumer Research
2016
The “Name-Ease” Effect and Its Dual Impact on Importance Judgments
Psychological Science
2009
Feeling disconnected from others: The effects of ambient darkness on hedonic choice
International Journal of Research in Marketing
2018
Not always the best medicine: Why frequent smiling can reduce wellbeing
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
2014
The Dirty Underbelly of Prosocial Behavior: Reconceptualizing Greater Good as an Ecosystem with Unintended Consequences
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2021
It’s About Time: A Call for More Longitudinal Consumer Research Insights
Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
2020
Change it Up: Inactivity and Repetitive Activity Reduce Creative Thinking
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2018
Reaching for rigor and relevance: better marketing research for a better world
Marketing Letters
2022
So difficult to smile: Why unhappy people avoid enjoyable activities.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2020
Gut Liking for the Ordinary: How Product Design Features Help Predict Car Sales
GfK Marketing Intelligence Review
2013
Reconsidering prosocial behavior as intersocial: A literature review and a new perspective
Consumer Psychology Review
2022
Evoking Goals to Be Responsible: When Political Cues Increase Utilitarian Choice
Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
2019
Commentaries on “Abductive Theory Construction”
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2021
14. The Psychology of Giving: Small Interventions That Make a Difference
Flux
2012
JCP: The next mile
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2024
Editorial: Perspectives on Psychological Science—A Key Journal to Foster the Quality of Research
Perspectives on Psychological Science
2022
Introduction to special issue on gender and ethnicity in the marketing professoriate
Marketing Letters
2021
Not Always the Best Medicine: Frequent Smiling Can Reduce Wellbeing
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2014
Between Two Brands: A Goal Fluency Account of Brand Evaluation
SSRN Electronic Journal
2007

Education

Cornell University

Ph.D., Consumer Behavior / April, 2004

Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Experience

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Professor of Marketing / June, 2013Present

Professor of Marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (2011-2013)

Assistant/ Associate Professor of Marketing, Chicago Booth, University of Chicago (2003-2011)

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