May 31 2015
It was a delight to receive a call from Celia Pavelieff, the Marketing Manager at the Australia Council for the Arts, inviting me to fly up to beautiful Cairns this week to present a plenary session at the Australian Council for the Arts 2015 Marketing Summit. The two-day event is themed “Audiences: yours, mine, ours”, which represents the work …
Apr 29 2015
RMIT is a content partner of Australia’s Marketing Magazine. I jumped at the opportunity to write a piece on “Information Design”. My article is titled “How marketers construct ‘consumer’ preferences” and came out in the April/May edition, which is now on the shelves. In the piece, I discuss examples of great information design from industry and research (including …
Apr 11 2015
This week I travelled to Sydney to attend my first meeting of the World Social Marketing Conference. As noted in the conference program, my talk, titled “Aggregating Potential Collective Action To Motivate Pro-Social Consumption”, was scheduled for Monday 20 April at 11:30am in Seminar Room 4. The work is a collaborative venture with Prof. Rick Larrick at Duke University. The …
Dec 02 2014
This week I travelled to my first meeting of the Australia & New Zealand Marketing Academy, which was being held in Brisbane and hosted by Griffith University. As noted in the conference program, I was fortunate to give two talks: 1. “Judgment and Decision-making in Word of Mouth Communication” in the track enigmatically called “Consumer Behaviour – Other”. …
Nov 27 2014
This week I returned to the US (via Hawaii!) to present some of my work at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, which was held in Long Beach, California. It was great to see old friends from the Newell Lab, CRED, and those at Duke, and also make some new friends. I received some positive feedback on my …
Jul 07 2014
Last week I moved from the United States back to Australia to begin working as a lecturer in the marketing group of RMIT University’s School of Economics, Finance and Marketing. (For those of you who don’t know, in Australia a “lecturer” is equivalent to the academic rank of tenure-track assistant professor.) I’ll be helping to teach “Marketing …
Jun 04 2014
Recently, Rick Larrick and I wrote a chapter/entry on the topic of “choice architecture” for Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, which is an effort to shape the agenda of theory and research in the social and behavioral sciences in the decades to come. The piece expresses our views on the most important …
May 16 2014
Earlier this month I participated in the 2014 Duke University Energy Research Collaboration Workshop, which was sponsored by the Duke University Energy Initiative and open to Duke University faculty, research staff, and their students interested in energy. The presentations focused on recent energy-related research by Duke faculty, staff and students. I was part of session focused on the a behavioral science …
May 16 2014
This week my paper with Rick Larrick was published in the Spring edition of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. The paper, which can be found here, is called “Metric and scale design as choice architecture tools” and discusses a simple way to increase consumer’s preferences for more fuel efficient vehicles: to present the …
Feb 26 2014
This is my first video summarizing the general topic of “choice architecture” followed by some specific examples in my own research with translating attributes. [transcript] You can read about one of the papers mentioned in the video here: Camilleri, A. R. & Larrick, R. P. (2014). Metric and scale design as choice architecture tools. Journal of Public Policy …
