Jonah A. Berger

University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department

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700 Jon M. Huntsman Hall

3730 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

United States

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1.

What Makes Online Content Viral?

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012
Jonah A. Berger and Katherine L. Milkman
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Social Transmission, Word-of-Mouth, Social Epidemics

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Facebook Therapy? Why Do People Share Self-Relevant Content Online?

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Jonah A. Berger and Eva Buechel
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Miami - Department of Marketing
Downloads 2,640 (5,059)
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Facebook, wellbeing, emotion

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Variety, Vice, and Virtue: How Assortment Size Influences Option Choice

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 941-951, April 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Aner Sela, Jonah A. Berger and Wendy Liu
University of Florida - Department of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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The Influence of Product Variety on Brand Perception and Choice

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 1938
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Jun 2006
Jonah A. Berger, Michaela Draganska and Itamar Simonson
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Drexel University and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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variety, quality perceptions, market strategy, consumer choice, quality cues, sensory experience

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When, Why, and How Controversy Causes Conversation

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 May 2012 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2012
Zoey Chen and Jonah A. Berger
University of Miami and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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Word of mouth, controversy, conversation, reviews

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What Do People Talk About? Drivers of Immediate and Ongoing Word-of-Mouth

Journal of Marketing Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
Jonah A. Berger and Eric M. Schwartz
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 927 (26,540)
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Word-of-Mouth, Buzz Marketing, Diffusion, Product Characteristics, Social Contagion, Field Experiment

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Identity Signaling with Social Capital: A Model of Symbolic Consumption

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Identity Signaling with Social Capital: A Model of Symbolic Consumption

Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 27-2011
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 May 2011
Jonah A. Berger, Benjamin Ho and Yogesh V. Joshi
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Vassar College and University of Maryland - Department of Marketing
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Social identity, social influence, contagion, conspicuous consumption, fads, fashion, economic models, signaling models, game theory

Identity Signaling with Social Capital: A Model of Symbolic Consumption

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 May 2011
Jonah A. Berger, Benjamin Ho and Yogesh V. Joshi
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Vassar College and University of Maryland - Department of Marketing
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social identity, social influence, contagion, conspicuous consumption, fads, fashion, economic models, signaling models, game theory

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How Interest Shapes Word-of-Mouth Over Different Channels

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Jonah A. Berger and Raghuram Iyengar
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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word of mouth, online, offline

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Where Consumers Diverge from Others: Identity Signaling and Product Domains

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 34, August 2007
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Sep 2007
Jonah A. Berger and Chip Heath
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Social Influence, Social Contagion, Identity, Reference Groups

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Can Losing Leads to Winning?

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
Jonah A. Berger and Devin G. Pope
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Competition, Motivation, Performance

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Everywhere and at All Times: Mobility, Consumer Decision Making, and Choice

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2016
Nicholas H. Lurie, Jonah A. Berger, Zoey Chen, Beibei Li, Hongju Liu, Charlotte Mason, David M. Muir, Grant M. Packard, Joseph Pancras, Ann Schlosser, Baohong Sun and Rajkumar Venkatesan
University of Connecticut School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, University of Miami, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Connecticut, University of Georgia, University of Delaware - Department of Business Administration, Wilfrid Laurier University - Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, University of Connecticut - Department of Marketing, University of Washington - Department of Marketing and International Business, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (New York) and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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Decision Making, Choice Behavior, Digital Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Electronic Commerce

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Subtle Signals of Inconspicuous Consumption

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
Jonah A. Berger and Morgan K. Ward
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU)
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Conspicuous Consumption, Identity-Signaling, Social Influence, Conformity, Branding

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How Environmental Cues Influence Product Evaluation and Choice

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Mar 2007
Jonah A. Berger and Grainne Fitzsimons
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Waterloo
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Environmental Cues, Consumer Choice, Evaluation, Fluency

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Can Where People Vote Influence How They Vote? The Influence of Polling Location Type on Voting Behavior

Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1926
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Mar 2006
Jonah A. Berger, Marc N. Meredith and S. Christian Wheeler
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Independent and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Decision Making, Voting, Environmental Cues, Political Economy

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Positive Effects of Negative Publicity: When Negative Reviews Increase Sales

Marketing Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Jonah A. Berger, Alan T. Sorensen and Scott Rasmussen
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Stanford University
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Negative Publicity, Awareness, Word-Of-Mouth, Product Success

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Arousal Increases Social Transmission of Information

Psychological Science, Vol. 22, No. 7, 2011
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Jonah A. Berger
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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social transmission, word of mouth, viral, emotion

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Who Drives Divergence? Identity-Signaling, Outgroup Dissimilarity, and the Abandonment of Cultural Tastes

Journals of Personality and Social Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 May 2008
Jonah A. Berger and Chip Heath
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Culture, Diffusion, Identity, Social Influence, and Intergroup Processes

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Alone in a Crowd of Sheep: Asymmetric Perceptions of Conformity and Their Roots in an Introspection Illusion

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Mar 2007
Emily Pronin, Jonah A. Berger and Sarah Molouki
Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Conformity, Perecption, Self-Other Knowledge, Nonconscious Processes

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Shifting Signals to Help Health: Using Identity-Signaling to Reduce Risky Health Behaviors

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 35, 2008
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 May 2008
Jonah A. Berger and Lindsay Rand
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Stanford University
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Identity, Health, Social Influence, Alcohol Consumption, Junk Food

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Identifiable but Not Identical: Combining Social Identity and Uniqueness Motives in Choice

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 39, October 2012
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Dec 2012
Cindy Chan, Jonah A. Berger and Leaf Van Boven
University of Toronto - Marketing, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Colorado Boulder
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Following the Blind: How Expertise and Endorsement Style Impact Word of Mouth Persuasion

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2015
Grant M. Packard and Jonah A. Berger
Wilfrid Laurier University - Lazaridis School of Business & Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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word of mouth, word of mouth content, consumer knowledge, language, social perception, persuasion, marketing, consumer behavior

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When the Same Prime Leads to Different Effects

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 34, 2007
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Sep 2007
S. Christian Wheeler and Jonah A. Berger
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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Priming, Associations, Product Choice, Environmental Cues

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Idea Habitats: How the Prevalence of Environmental Cues Influences the Success of Ideas

Cognitive Science, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 195-221, 2005
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Aug 2005
Jonah A. Berger and Chip Heath
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 184 (177,836)

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Culture, memory, retrieval, social representations

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How Attribute Quantity Influences Option Choice

Journal of Marketing Research, 49 (December)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2012
Aner Sela and Jonah A. Berger
University of Florida - Department of Marketing and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
Downloads 154 (207,263)
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Attributes, Numerosity, Hedonic and Utilitarian Choice, Attitudes, Conjoint Analysis, Justification, Persuasion

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Decision Quicksand: How Trivial Choices Suck Us in

Sela, Aner and Jonah Berger (2012), "Decision Quicksand: How Trivial Choices Suck Us In," Journal of Consumer Research, 39 (August), 360-370.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Aner Sela and Jonah A. Berger
University of Florida - Department of Marketing and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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Metacognition, consumer decision making

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How Self-Control Shapes the Meaning of Choice

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 44, 2017
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 May 2017 Last Revised: 28 May 2017
Aner Sela, Jonah A. Berger and Joshua Kim
University of Florida - Department of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, Students
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Self-control, Inferences, Choice, Preference, Self-perception

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Does Article Order Influence Impact?

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
Jonah A. Berger
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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Scientometrics, Citations, Order Effects, Marketing of Science

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How Tradeoffs Shrink Attribute Hierarchy

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2013
Aner Sela, Jonah A. Berger and Gia Nardini
University of Florida - Department of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Denver
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Attributes, Decision Difficulty, Choice, Decision Making, Decision Quicksand, Conjoint Analysis

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Multivariate Visual Diffusion for Social Groups

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 01 Jun 2011
Eric Bradlow, Jonah A. Berger and Blakeley B. McShane
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 64 (372,707)
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diffusion, social identity, social influence, probability models

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Does Time of Day Affect Variety-Seeking?

Posted: 17 Oct 2018
Kelly Gullo, Jonah A. Berger, Jordan Etkin and Bryan Bollinger
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Students, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Marketing

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variety, decision-making, choice, circadian rhythms, arousal