Jeff Galak

Carnegie Mellon University

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

United States

http://www.jeffgalak.com

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Scholarly Papers (22)

1.

A Replication of the Procedures from Bem (2010, Study 8) and a Failure to Replicate the Same Results

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 31 Oct 2010
Jeff Galak and Leif D. Nelson
Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 4,406 (4,759)
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Psi, Precognition, ESP

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The Effects of Traditional and Social Earned Media on Sales: A Study of a Microlending Marketplace

Journal of Marketing Research, 49 (October).
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 29 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2014
Andrew T. Stephen and Jeff Galak
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Carnegie Mellon University
Downloads 4,038 (5,494)
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earned media, traditional media, social media, sales, publicity, media, multivariate time series, count data, copula, microlending, microfinance

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Correcting the Past: Failures to Replicate Psi

Forthcoming, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2012
Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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esp, psi, precognition, failure to replicate

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Enhancing the Television-Viewing Experience through Commercial Interruptions

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 36, August 2009
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 22 Jan 2020
Leif D. Nelson, Tom Meyvis and Jeff Galak
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Marketing and Carnegie Mellon University
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Television, Advertising, Hedonic

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Micro-Finance Decision Making: A Field Study of Prosocial Lending

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Intuitive Biases in Choice vs. Estimation: Implications for the Wisdom of Crowds

Simmons, Joseph P., Leif D. Nelson, Jeff Galak, and Shane Frederick (2011), “Intuitive Biases in Choice vs. Estimation: Implications for the Wisdom of Crowds,” Journal of Consumer Research, 38 (June), 1-15.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2012
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale School of Management
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Judgment and Decision Making, Heuristics and Biases, Intuition, Preference Reversals, Learning

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Slow Down! Insensitivity to Rate of Consumption Leads to Avoidable Satiation

Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 May 2012
Carnegie Mellon University, New York University (NYU)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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satiation, consumers, habituation, hedonic, enjoyment

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Is Variety the Spice of Life? It All Depends on the Rate of Consumption

Judgment and Decision Making, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Mar 2011
Carnegie Mellon University, New York University (NYU)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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variety, decision making,diversification bias, enjoyment

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The Pain Was Greater If It Will Happen Again: The Effect of Anticipated Continuation on Retrospective Discomfort

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 140, No. 1, pp. 63-75
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2011
Jeff Galak and Tom Meyvis
Carnegie Mellon University and New York University (NYU) - Department of Marketing
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memory, bracing, expectations, aversive experiences

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The Virtues of Opaque Prose: How Lay Beliefs About Fluency Influence Perceptions of Quality

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2010
Jeff Galak and Leif D. Nelson
Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 199 (314,380)
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fluency, meta-cognition, writing, reading

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Variety Amnesia: Recalling Past Variety Can Accelerate Recovery from Satiation

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 36, December 2009
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2009
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Marketing and Logistics Management and New York University (NYU)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Satiation, Consumer Behavior, Memory, Recovery

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The Subjective Sense of Feeling Satiated

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 04 May 2012
Joseph P. Redden and Jeff Galak
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Marketing and Logistics Management and Carnegie Mellon University
Downloads 195 (320,287)
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Satiation, Metacognition, Fluency, Hedonic Consumption

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Sentimental Value and its Influence on Hedonic Adaptation

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 13 Aug 2015
Yang Yang and Jeff Galak
University of Florida and Carnegie Mellon University
Downloads 188 (331,126)
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sentimental value, satiation, hedonic adaptation

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When It Could Have Been Worse, It Gets Better: How Favorable Uncertainty Resolution Slows Hedonic Adaptation

Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming, HEC Paris Research Paper No. MKG-2016-1171
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 01 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2016
Yang Yang, Yangjie Gu and Jeff Galak
University of Florida, HEC Paris and Carnegie Mellon University
Downloads 169 (364,114)
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hedonic adaptation, happiness, uncertainty, favorable uncertainty resolution

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How Perceptions of Temporal Distance Influence Satiation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2014
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Marketing and Logistics Management, University of Florida and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
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satiation, habituation, adaptation, obesity

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The 'Future Is Now' Bias: Anchoring and (Insufficient) Adjustment When Predicting the Future from the Present

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Jun 2019
Julian Givi and Jeff Galak
West Virginia University and Carnegie Mellon University
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anchoring and adjustment, status-quo, forecasting, prediction, beliefs, heuristics

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The Effect of Inequality Frames on Redistributive Income Policy Support

Psychological Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 May 2012
Rosalind Chow and Jeff Galak
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University
Downloads 154 (394,280)

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income inequality, politics

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Not in My Backyard: The Influence of Arbitrary Boundaries on Consumer Choice

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Oct 2010
Carnegie Mellon University, New York University (NYU)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychiatry
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boundaries, borders, decision making, contagion

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Keeping the Joneses From Getting Ahead in the First Place: Envy’s Influence on Gift Giving Behavior

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 May 2019
Julian Givi and Jeff Galak
West Virginia University and Carnegie Mellon University
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gift giving, envy, self-other decision making; prosocial behavior, social comparisons

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The Properties and Antecedents of Hedonic Decline

Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 69, pp. 1-25, 2018
Posted: 13 Feb 2018
Jeff Galak and Joseph P. Redden
Carnegie Mellon University and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Marketing and Logistics Management

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When Gift-Giving Is Selfish: A Motivation to Be Unique

Posted: 09 Jul 2015
Jeff Galak and Julian Givi
Carnegie Mellon University and West Virginia University

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gift-giving, need for uniqueness, uniqueness seeking, self-other decision making

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Variations on Injustice: An Exploration of Responses to When Good (Bad) Things Happen to Bad (Good) People

Posted: 20 Jan 2015
Jeff Galak and Rosalind Chow
Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business

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