Professor Lauren Block Announced as New Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Psychology

The Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP) is pleased to announce the new editorial team for the Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP). Dr. Lauren G. Block, Lippert Professor of Marketing at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, will be the new editor-in-chief. Dr. Block will be joined by Dr. Jennifer Argo, Carthy Professor of Marketing at the University of Alberta, and Dr. Thomas Kramer, Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Business Programs at the School of Business at the University of California, Riverside, as co-editors. Together, they will oversee the Journal’s publication for a three-year term beginning in January 2021.

Lauren G. Block is the Lippert Professor of Marketing at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Her work primarily focuses on areas of consumer well-being, consumer judgments of the efficacy of health-related products, magical thinking and extraordinary beliefs, and how consumers interact with AI assistants. She currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Marketing Research.

Jennifer Argo is the Carthy Professor of Marketing at the University of Alberta. Her research primarily focuses on the impact of social influences on consumers’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Consumer Research and is on the Editorial Review Board at the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Marketing Letters. She has previously served as President for the Society for Consumer Psychology.

Thomas Kramer is Professor of Marketing and the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Business Programs at the School of Business at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests focus on examining factors that influence preference construction and subsequent decision-making, including extraordinary consumer beliefs (such as superstitious, magical, fateful, or karmic beliefs), biases, and heuristics. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology and the Journal of Consumer Research, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of International Marketing.

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