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Curtis P. Haugtvedt

Curtis P. Haugtvedt

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Professor Haugtvedt is a Consumer Psychologist. His basic training is in Social Psychology and his primary program of research focuses on the general issue of persuasion and attitude strength. Specific interests lie in the study of attitude formation and change processes and factors associated with attitude persistence and resistance. Related research interests include the study of personality variables in consumer behavior, social psychological and e-marketing research, attitude-behavior consistency, message order presentation effects, self-generated attitude change processes, memory-judgment relationships, and the development of computer-mediated behavioral research methodologies. Applied research interests focus on issues associated with the development and maintenance of brand equity and measures of brand equity and advertising effectiveness. He also conducts research on marketing issues associated with health, the environment, and sustainability.

Professor Haugtvedt teaches courses at the undergraduate, MBA, Ph.D., and Executive Education levels on the topics of consumer behavior, consumer psychology, social media, advertising and promotion, social marketing, and e-marketing.

Dr. Haugtvedt has presented his research in Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Croatia, Norway, Sweden, South Korea, Hong Kong, mainland China and major universities in the United States. He has also served as a visiting Professor in Denmark, Norway, France, mainland China, Germany, and Croatia.

Haugtvedt's research has appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Communication Monographs, Psychology and Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, and numerous book chapters. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Consumer Psychology (2008), Online Consumer Psychology (2005), and Diversity in Advertising (2004). Professor Haugtvedt is the Founder and Editor of the Marketing and Consumer Psychology book series (Psychology Press, a division of Routledge/Taylor Francis). He is a frequent reviewer for the major psychology and marketing journals, and serves or has served as a member of editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Academy of Marketing Science Review, the Journal of Interactive Advertising, Psychology and Marketing, and the Journal of Advertising. He also serves as reviewer for the National Science Foundation, Research Council of Norway, Danish Research Council, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Dr. Haugtvedt is former Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Psychology and served as President of the Society for Consumer Psychology (Division 23 of the American Psychological Association). He has served as the co-chair of numerous conferences for the Society for Consumer Psychology, American Psychological Association, American Marketing Association, and the Academy of Marketing Science. In 2005, he served as Co-Chair of the LaLonde Conference on Consumer Behavior (La Londe les Maures, France) and now serves as a member of the permanent scientific committee.

For many years, Professor Haugtvedt served on the board of trustees for the Business and Technology Center in Columbus, a high technology business incubator. A recipient of Fisher College teaching awards for technology and innovation in the classroom, he was also selected as Marketing Professor of the Year in 2006 and 2007 by students in the Fisher College. He was also selected as the Columbus Ohio Professional Chapter Marketing Educator of the Year in 2007. In 2009, he received the Society for Consumer Psychology Distinguished Service Contribution Award. At Ohio State, Professor Haugtvedt holds an appointment in the Department of Marketing and Logistics in the Fisher College of Business and a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a B.A. in Sociology/Criminal Justice and a B.S. in Psychology from North Dakota State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Experimental Social Psychology/Marketing from the University of Missouri-Columbia.


Contact info:

520 Fisher Hall
Fisher College of Business
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-6228
Haugtvedt.1@osu.edu

Primary Interests:

  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Communication, Language
  • Health Psychology
  • Internet and Virtual Psychology
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Persuasion, Social Influence
  • Social Cognition

Books:

Journal Articles:

  • Haugtvedt, C. P., Schumann, D. W., Schneier, W., & Warren, W. (1994). Advertising repetition and variation strategies: Implications for understanding attitude strength. Journal of Consumer Research, 21, 176-189.
  • Haugtvedt, C. P., & Wegener, D. T. (1994). Message order effects in persuasion: An attitude strength perspective. Journal of Consumer Research, 21, 205-218.
  • Haugtvedt, C. P., et al. (1997). Beyond fact or artifact: An assessment of Fishbein and Middlestadt's perspectives on attitude change processes. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 6, 99-106.
  • Smith, S. M., Haugtvedt, C. P., Jadrich, J. M., & Anton, M. R. (1995). Personality moderates responses to advertising sex appeals. Advances in Consumer Research, 22, 735-739.
  • Smith, S. M., Haugtvedt, C. P., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Attitudes and recycling: Does the measurement of affect enhance behavioral prediction? Psychology and Marketing, 11, 359-374.
  • Smith, S. M., Haugtvedt, C. P., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Need for cognition and the effects of repeated expression on attitude accessibility and extremity. Advances in Consumer Research, 21, 234-237.
  • Unnava, H. R., Agarwal, S., & Haugtvedt, C. P. (1996) The interactive effects of presentation modality and message-generated imagery on recall of advertising information. Journal of Consumer Research.

Other Publications:

  • Haugtvedt, C. P. (in press). Consumer psychology. In Encyclopedia of psychology. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Haugtvedt, C. P., & Priester, J. R. (1997). Conceptual and methodological issues in advertising effectiveness: An attitude strength perspective. In W. Wells (Ed.), Measuring Advertising Effectiveness. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Petty, R. E., Haugtvedt, C. P., & Smith, S. M. (1995). Message elaboration as a determinant of attitude strength. In R. E. Petty & J. A. Krosnick (Eds.), Attitude strength: Antecedents and consequences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Roehm, H. A., & Haugtvedt, C. P. (in press). Interactive communications via the WWW: Implications for theory and practice. In D.W. Schumann & E. Thorson (Eds.), Advertising and the Internet. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Smith, S. M., & Haugtvedt, C. P. (1995). Pro-environmental attitudes and behavior: Implications of understanding basic attitude change processes and attitude structure for enhancing behavior. In M. Polonsky & A. Mintu (Eds.), New developments in environmental marketing: Advances in theory, research, and practice. Hayworth Press.

Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Topics in Consumer Psychology (Ph.D. Seminar)
  • Consumer Behavior (Undergraduate and MBA)
  • Marketing on the Internet (Undergraduate)
  • Principles of Electronic Marketing (MBA)

Curtis P. Haugtvedt
Department of Marketing
Fisher College of Business
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1144
United States of America

  • Phone: (614) 292-6228

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