Dissertation Awards
About the Awards
The Dissertation Awards (ACR-Sheth Foundation Emerging Topic Research Support) are intended for dissertations in the areas of public purpose or cross-cultural research. ACR’s Sheth Foundation liaison manages the process of soliciting nominations, reviewing the submissions, and determining the winners. Each winner receives a plaque and a financial award funded by the Sheth Foundation.
2024 ACR-Sheth Foundation Emerging Topic Research Awards
Privacy
If Thoughts about Privacy are Crowded Out, Consumers, Marketers, and Policy Makers Need to Change their Approach
Maansi Dalmia
Maladaptive Consumption
Speaking Their Language: Crafting Effective Marketing Messages for Marginalized Audiences on Social Media
Mikyoung Lim
Past Dissertation Award Recipients
2023
Nitisha Tomar – University of Wisconsin – Madison
Ludic Publics – Exploring Ludic Consumption’s Potential for Civic Engagement
Mengchen Zheng – Boston University
Failing at Leisure: Pursuing Hobbies in an All-or-Nothing Culture
Musa Essa – University of Bologna
Marketplace inclusivity and accessibility for people with disabilities
Annie Ding – Western University
Fact or Opinion: Investigating the Effect of Headlines on Online Engagement for Racial Justice
2022
Liang Shen – University of Cincinnati
Making “Ugly” Alluring: Information Presentation Strategies to Increase Donations to Normatively Unattractive Animals
Ghalia Shamayleh – Concordia University
Digitized Healthcare Services: How Mental Healthcare Platforms Shape Therapy
Yeseul Kim – University of South Florida
Minority Perception Influences Preferences for Autonomous Digital Interfaces
Xiaohong Zhao – Shanghai Jiaotong University
Are People Less Generous After a Family Member Gives to Charity? The Interaction of Self-Construal and Relationship Type
2021
Haiyue (Felix) Xu – Penn State
Consumer Response to Marketplace Practices: A Moral Perspective.
Libby Chun – Erasmus University Rotterdam
Prospective Duration Neglect: The Effect Task Duration Saliency on Procrastination.
Amanda Garrison – University of Wyoming
The Consumer Milestone Journey into the Boxing Ring: A Space of Managed Violence and Transformative Therapeutic Value.
Jerry Grimes, Jr. – Grenoble Ecole de Management
How to Reduce Alcohol-Related Risk Behaviors? Proposition and Evaluation of a Label Indicating Alcohol Type Equivalence.
Nurit Nobel – Stockholm School of Economics
New frontiers in behavioral insights: Harnessing algorithms, apps, and other digital tools to change human behavior.
2020
Yu Ding – Columbia University
Increasing Trust in Science
Jay Zenkić – University of Melbourne
When Cash Costs You: The Pain of Holding
Vivian (Jieru) Xie – Virginia Tech
The Effect of Ownership on Consumers’ Disposition Decisions: Research on Food Wastage and Recycling Behaviors
Xiaodong [Elva] Nie – University of Texas at Arlington
How Global-Local Identity Affects Consumer Preference between Sharing and Purchase: The Role of Traveler-Settler Mindset
Amy Errmann – University of Auckland Business School
Mindful Consumption: Exploring Operational Mechanisms from an Evolutionary Lens
Helen van der Sluis – Arizona State University
Responses to Gender-Based Price Variation: Differences or Discrimination?
Dallas Novakowski – University of Calgary
Examining the Determinants of Security Consumption
Burcak Bas – Bocconi University
Are People Averse to Experiments? Reconciliation of Opposing Findings
Hyeyoon Jung – University of Alabama
Coping With Negative Emotions in Intercultural Service Encounters
2019
Yan Vieites – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Your Need Doesn’t Appeal to Me: How Social Class Shapes Charitable Giving Across Causes
Vikram Kapoor – University Limerick
Contemporary Homosexual Lives and CCT: Legions of Oppression, Varied Coping, and Diverse Consumption
Aaron J. Barnes – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Culture and Personal Preferences: Implications For Decision Making, Information Processing, and Brand Equity
Shreyans Goenka – Cornell University
Morality Alters the Pursuit of Pleasure
Lucie Wiart – Université de Lille
Sustainable eating and acceptability of meat substitutes: constructing the legitimacy of a ‘plant-based’ diet
Qin Wang – Arizona State University
On the Flexibility of Self-Repair Across Cultures: How Thinking Style Impacts Fluid Compensatory Consumption
2018
Yunqing Chen – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Identified Donor Effect
Jessica Gamlin – Northwestern University
Self-Sabotaging in Consumer Goal Pursuit
Tanvi Gupta – Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Tightness for Control or Looseness for Autonomy? Using the Interplay of Cultural Values and Conceptual Metaphors in Logo Design
Yuechen Wu – University of Maryland
Inferring Personality from Solo versus Accompanied Consumption: When Solo Consumers are Perceived to be More Open
Teodóra Szabó-Douat – Baruch College CUNY
Caring is sharing” A developmental perspective on the decision to lend
Maria Rodas – University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Paradox Brands: Can Brands with Contradictory Meanings be More Appealing to Consumers?
