Jeff Galak

Jeff Galak, Ph.D.
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Posner Hall #381-D
5000 Forbes Ave.
PittsburghPA 15213
Tel: 412-268-5810
Fax: 412-268-7345

Email: jgalak@cmu.edu

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Jeff Galak is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.

Jeff received his Bachelors of Science in Marketing and Economic Theory (2005), Master of Philosophy in Marketing (2008), and Ph.D. in Marketing (2009) all from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is currently involved with a variety of research projects in the domain of consumer behavior. Though his primary interest is understanding what types of experiences lead to consumer enjoyment, he also does work in the areas of, among other things, hedonic adaptation, variety seeking, affective forecasting, expectation updating, and fluency effects.

Aside from his academic career Jeff is an avid woodworker, runner, movie enthusiast, and certified computer geek.

Jeff also created and manages Consumer Behavior Lab, an online research lab. Feel free to check it out and participate in a study.

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Honors and Awards

2013 – Finalist for 2012 Paul E. Green Award at the Journal of Marketing Research for: Stephen, Andrew T., and Jeff Galak (2012), “The effects of Traditional and Social Earned Media on Sales: An Application to a Microlending Marketplace,” Journal of Marketing Research, 49, 624-639.

2013 – Selected to be part of MSI Young Scholar Conference

2012 – Runner up JCR Paper of the Year 2009 for: Nelson, Leif D., Tom Meyvis, and Jeff Galak (2009), “Enhancing the Television Viewing Experience through Commercial Interruptions,” Journal of Consumer Research, 36 (August), 160-172.

2011 – Junior Faculty Giving Chair

2010 – Recipient of CMU Berkman Faculty Development Grant

2010 – BP Junior Faculty Chair

2009 – Herman E. Krooss Award For Distinction and Presentation of an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

2008 – Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics – 2nd Place Poster Award: “Complexity is Good: When Disfluent Communication Signals Author Erudition” Galak, Jeff and Leif D. Nelson.

2008 – AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow.

2007 – 2nd Annual Judgment and Decision Making Pre-Conference (at SPSP) Travel Award.