My work focuses on the role that adaptive psychological mechanisms play in consumption and decision-making environments. This typically involves influences on thoughts and decisions that act outside of conscious awareness. Specific research topics include self-control, embodiment, disease and contagion, intergroup processing, various signaling behaviors, and whatever else seems theoretically and conceptually interesting.
Anderson, U. S., Perea, E. F., Becker, D. V., Ackerman, J. M., Shapiro, J. R., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2010). I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 804-808.
Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., Ackerman, J. M., Delton, A. W., & Robertson, T. E. (in press). The Financial Consequences of Too Many Men: Sex Ratio Effects on Saving, Borrowing, and Spending. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Ackerman, J. M., Huang, J. Y., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Cognition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Griskevicius, V., Ackerman, J. M., Van den Bergh, B., & Li, Y. J. (in press). Fundamental motives and business decisions. In G. Saad (Ed.), Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences. Springer.
Park, J. H., & Ackerman, J. M. (in press). Passion and compassion: Psychology of kin relations within and beyond the family. In C. Salmon and T. Shackelford (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology. Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
Consumer Behavior
Introduction to Social Psychology
Ph.D. Seminar in Consumer Behavior
Research Methods
Consumer Behavior
Introduction to Social Psychology
Ph.D. Seminar in Consumer Behavior
Research Methods
Joshua Ackerman Marketing Group
MIT Sloan School of Management
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United States
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