Steve Andrews was born, raised, and lived most of his life in North Carolina. He has a BS in Psychology and a MA in Exercise Physiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a BS in Marketing from Methodist College, and an MBA from Fayetteville State University. Intellectually he enjoys studying consumer behavior, in particular visual persuasion and advertising. He finds current events remarkably entertaining in a "truth is stranger than fiction" sort of way. A movie and TV show buff, he has almost 400 DVDs in his collection. He loves animals (2 cats currently), college basketball, and tennis; he is a certified USPTA tennis teaching professional, and he still tries to play as much as possible. In his spare time he likes to read history, ancient Greek texts, philosophy, and play guitar.
Eda Gurel-Atay graduated from Middle East Technical University in Turkey and received her undergraduate degree in Business Administration. Her research interests center on values (personal, social, and cultural values), lifestyles, materialism, and hedonic consumption. She is also interested in how emotion regulation strategies (e.g., affective forecasting) can affect consumer behaviors and effects of individual differences on process satisfaction. She is a member of the Association for Consumer Research, and the Society for Consumer Psychology.
Courtney N. Boerstler received an M.B.A. in marketing from California State University, Fresno and a B.A. in English from Ouachita Baptist University. Prior to starting her PhD, Courtney worked in marketing for Kaiser Permanente. Courtney's research interests include advertising strategy, mixed emotions and hedonic consumption.
Johnny Chen has a B.S. Computer Science (Oregon State University) and an M.B.A. (University of Oregon). Before starting his Ph.D. program in 2005, he was employed at Intel Corporation for 11 years. He started his career as an Internet Engineer during the dot.com years and later became a Senior Product Marketing Engineer focused on establishing strategic ecosystem relationships and developing the company's Open Source strategy. His research interests include experiential consumption, consumer boycott participation, and structural equation modeling.
Jesse King graduated from Montana State University in Bozeman and has two undergraduate degrees in marketing and applied psychology. While at MSU, he co-authored a study on tourism and recreation motivation which was published in the Journal of Travel Research. Before joining the marketing doctoral program at the University of Oregon in 2007, Jesse spent the two years following his graduation working as an ethnographic researcher for a product development company, contributing to the design and usability of numerous medical, scientific and consumer products.
Ian David Parkman received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of New Mexico. Many of his ongoing research interests have been shaped by the work of his brother in industrial design, particularly the intersection of firm strategy and product innovation. This broad arena includes the conceptualization of the use of design in new products, evaluative measures of product development success, consumer product entrepreneurship, technological innovation and incremental product development. Within the latter, he is particularly interested in the use of design as a source of competitive advantage. Ian draws research funding from the UO’s Warsaw Center for Sports Marketing and has also served as a business plan judge and session moderator for the Lundquist Entrepreneurship Center New Venture Championship. He has industry experience working in marketing strategy for Octagon Sports Marketing and Athlete Representation, a division of the Interpublic Group.
Namika Sagara has a B.S. in Psychology, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Marketing department (adviser: Dr. Peter Wright) and is also a Master's student in the Psychology department (advisers: Dr. Paul Slovic and Dr. Ellen Peters). Her research background and interest lies in decision making, particularly in numeracy and numeric information processing, as well as affect and decision making. In her dissertation, she is investigating how people understand and use numeric information in their judgments. She spent her early years in Japan and Malaysia, and has lived most of her adult life in the United States. She is interested in cross-cultural studies, and is currently conducting her research in five different countries.
Guang-Xin Xie received M.A. in communication from Washington State University and B.A. from West China School of Medicine at the Sichuan University. His research is focused on marketplace persuasion, deception, and consumer values, represented by presentations at conferences of the AMA, ACR, SCP, and AMS. The current projects investigate how consumers detect, interpret and cope with marketers’ persuasion attempts. He has published in the Handbook of Consumer Psychology (with Prof. Lynn Kahle), the Journal of Social Psychology (with Prof. Moon Lee), and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (with Prof. Moon Lee and Matthew Tedder).
