Aviva Philipp-Muller
Assistant Professor, Marketing
Burnaby
Room: WMC 4364
Email: aviva_philipp-muller@sfu.ca
Curriculum Vitae: View
Biography
Aviva Philipp-Muller is an Assistant Professor in Marketing at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. She completed her B.Sc. at the University of Toronto, and her MA and PhD from The Ohio State University, where she was a doctoral fellow with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has won several prestigious awards for her research, including winning first place in the business category at the invitational Hayes Research Forum and being named an Emerging Thought Leader by SFU. Her research centres on how to help consumers make decisions that better society and improve their own well-being. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, such as The Journal of Consumer Research, Psychological Science, The Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Management Science. Her work has also been featured in The National Post and The Conversation. She is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal.
Research Interests
Aviva researches the marketing of innovations, consumer morality, and consumer well-being.
One of her lines of research examines how consumers perceive new innovations, and the inferences they make about them. Some of her recent work in this line has identified why consumers are antiscience, and how to change that.
Her work also examines marketplace morality, with a focus on how consumers respond to moral transgressions in the marketplace, as well as when they behave prosocially.
Selected Publications
articles and reports
Siev, J. J., Philipp-Muller, A., Durso, G. R., & Wegener, D. T. (2024). Endorsing both sides, pleasing neither: Ambivalent individuals face unexpected social costs in political conflicts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 114. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104631
Philipp-Muller, A., & Siev, J. (2024, July). How Companies Should - and Shouldn't - Speak Out on Political Issues. Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/companies-political-messages-public-8f676a85
Philipp-Muller, A., Costello, J. P., & Walker Reczek, R. (2023). Get Your Science Out of Here: When Does Invoking Science in the Marketing of Consumer Products Backfire? Journal of Consumer Research, 49(5), 721-740. http://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucac020
Philipp-Muller, A., Lee, S. W., & Petty, R. E. (2022). Why are people antiscience, and what can we do about it? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(30), e2120755119. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120755119
Philipp-Muller, A., Teeny, J. D., & Petty, R. E. (2022). Do consumers care about morality? A review and framework for understanding morality's marketplace influence. Consumer Psychology Review, 5(1), 107-124. http://doi.org/10.1002/arcp.1072
Susmann, M. W., Xu, M., Clark, J. K., Wallace, L. E., Blankenship, K. L., Philipp-Muller, A. Z., Luttrell, A., Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (2021). Persuasion amidst a pandemic: Insights from the Elaboration Likelihood Model. European Review of Social Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2021.1964744
Philipp-Muller, A., Wallace, L. E., Sawicki, V., Patton, K. M., & Wegener, D. T. (2020). Understanding When Similarity-Induced Affective Attraction Predicts Willingness to Affiliate: An Attitude Strength Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01919
Philipp-Muller, A. Z., Wallace, L. E., & Wegener, D. T. (2020). Where does moral conviction fit?: A factor analytic approach examining antecedents to attitude strength. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103900
Luttrell, A., Philipp-Muller, A., & Petty, R. E. (2019). Challenging Moral Attitudes With Moral Messages. Psychological Science, 30(8), 1136-1150. http://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619854706
Black, K. R., Stevenson, R. A., Segers, M., Ncube, B. L., Sun, S. Z., Philipp-Muller, A., Bebko, J. M., Barense, M. D., & Ferber, S. (2017). Linking Anxiety and Insistence on Sameness in Autistic Children: The Role of Sensory Hypersensitivity. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(8), 2459-2470. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3161-x
Philipp-Muller, A., & MacDonald, G. (2017). Avoidant individuals may have muted responses to social warmth after all: An attempted replication of MacDonald and Borsook (2010). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 272-280. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.11.010