Gavan J. Fitzsimons
Edward and Rose Donnell Distinguished Professor
Overview
Gavan J. Fitzsimons is the R. David Thomas professor of marketing and psychology at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His research focuses on understanding the ways in which consumers may be influenced without their conscious knowledge or awareness by marketers and marketing researchers, often without any intent on the part of the marketer. His work has been published in numerous academic journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science. His ideas have also been featured in many popular press outlets such as NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Oprah Magazine and Time Magazine, amongst many others.
Fitzsimons, Gavan J., et al. “License to Sin: The Liberating Role of Reporting Expectations.” The Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 34, no. 1, June 2007, pp. 22–31. Epmc, doi:10.1086/513043. Full Text
Morales, A. C., and G. J. Fitzsimons. “Product contagion: Changing consumer evaluations through physical contact with "disgusting" products.” Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 44, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 272–83. Scopus, doi:10.1509/jmkr.44.2.272. Full Text
Andersen, E. T., et al. “Measuring and mitigating the costs of stockouts.” Management Science, vol. 52, no. 11, Nov. 2006, pp. 1751–63. Scopus, doi:10.1287/mnsc.1060.0577. Full Text
Tavassoli, N. T., and G. J. Fitzsimons. “Spoken and typed expressions of repeated attitudes: matching response modes leads to attitude retrieval versus construction.” Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 33, no. 2, Sept. 2006, pp. 179–87. Scopus, doi:10.1086/506299. Full Text
Levav, Jonathan, and Gavan J. Fitzsimons. “When questions change behavior: the role of ease of representation.” Psychological Science, vol. 17, no. 3, Mar. 2006, pp. 207–13. Epmc, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01687.x. Full Text
Honea, H., et al. “1=2: When a singular experience leads to dissociated evaluations.” Journal of Consumer Psychology, vol. 16, no. 2, Jan. 2006, pp. 124–34. Scopus, doi:10.1207/s15327663jcp1602_3. Full Text
Irmak, C., et al. “The placebo effect in marketing: Sometimes you just have to want it to work.” Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 42, no. 4, Nov. 2005, pp. 406–09. Scopus, doi:10.1509/jmkr.2005.42.4.406. Full Text
Posavac, S. S., et al. “Blissful insularity: When brands are judged in isolation from competitors.” Marketing Letters, vol. 16, no. 2, Apr. 2005, pp. 87–97. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s11002-005-1433-2. Full Text
Williams, P., et al. “When Asking Questions About Health Behaviors Helps versus Hurts (Accepted).” Social Influences, 2005.
Posavac, S. S., et al. “The brand positivity effect: When evaluation confers preference.” Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 31, no. 3, Dec. 2004, pp. 643–51. Scopus, doi:10.1086/425099. Full Text