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Adam Alter
Assistant Professor of Marketing
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2009 Ph.D. in Social Psychology
Princeton University

2006 M.A. in Social Psychology
Princeton University

2004 B.Sc. in Psychology; Law minor (Honors Class I, University Medal)
University of New South Wales

Honors and Awards
  • 2010 Runner-Up, Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award, Society of Judgment and Decision Making
  • 2009 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Travel Grant
  • 2008-2009 Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2008 Princeton University Dean's Fund for Scholarly Travel
  • 2007-2009 Woodrow Wilson Scholars Society Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2004 Young Investigator Grant, American Society of Trial Consultants
  • 2004 University of New South Wales Medal (1st place in undergraduate degree)
  • 2003 Australian Psychological Society Prize for first place in psychology honors
  • 2003 Joseph Forgas Prize for best honors thesis in social psychology
  • 2003 University of New South Wales scholarship to complete psychology honors 2002 University of New South Wales Prize for first place in third year psychology
  • 2002 Joseph Forgas Prize for first place in third year social psychology
  • 1999 Four year Co-op Scholarship to complete actuarial science (ultimately declined)

Invited Seminars
  • June 2011 - Mannheim University, Mannheim, Germany
  • June 2011 - Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • August 2010 - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • March 2010 - Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
  • February 2010 - Chicago, Booth School of Business
  • March 2009 - New York University, Social Psychology
  • November 2008 - Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
  • November 2008 - MIT, Sloan School of Management
  • November 2008 - Harvard University, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit
  • October 2008 - Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
  • October 2008 - New York University, Stern School of Business
  • October 2008 - University of California, San Diego, Rady School of Management
  • September 2008 - Cornell University, Johnson School of Business
  • August 2008 - Yale University, School of Management
  • May 2008 - MIT, Sloan School of Management

Professional Experience


Editorial Board
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Ad-Hoc Journal Review:
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • Emotion
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
  • Individual Differences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • Journal of Consumer Research
  • Journal of Marketing Research
  • Law and Human Behavior
  • Learning and Individual Differences
  • Marketing Letters
  • Memory
  • Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • Psychological Bulletin
  • Psychological Science

Ad-Hoc Grant Reviewing
  • Netherlands Organization for Social Research
  • Research Foundation of City University New York
  • Israeli Science Foundation

Memberships & Committees
  • Member, Association for Consumer Research
  • Member, Society for Consumer Psychology
  • Member, American Psychological Association
  • Member, Association for Psychological Science
  • Member, Society of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Member, American Society of Trial Consultants
  • Member, New York Academy of Sciences
  • Member, Society of Judgment and Decision Making
  • Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Graduate Associate, Princeton Program in Law and Public Affairs
  • Graduate Fellow, Mathey College, 2006-2007.
  • Graduate Social Psychology Departmental Representative, Princeton University Psychology Department, 2005-2006.

Selected Media Attention


Television:
  • March 2010 - Interview on CBS, planned for
  • June 2006 - Live interview on Kudlow and Company, CNBC
  • June 2006 - Interview on Nightly Business Report, PBS

Radio:
  • Live interview on Drivetime Money segment, BBC Radio, UK, May 2006

Print:
    New York Times; Wall Street Journal; The Economist; Newsweek; Boston Globe; The Guardian, UK; Los Angeles Times; Spero News, Spain; Innovations Report, Germany; LiveScience.com; Discovery Reports, Canada; CBC Toronto, Canada; Fox News; China Post, Taiwan; Sunday Business Post, Ireland; Sydney Morning Herald, Australia; Smart Money, Russia.


Adam Alter
Adam Alter
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Affiliated Appointment in the Psychology Department
Stern School of Business
Tisch Hall
40 West 4th Street, Room 811
New York, NY 10012
Tel: (212)998-0142
Fax: (212)998-4006
Email: aalter@stern.nyu.edu


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