In Memoriam — Tom Meyvis

Biography

Tom Meyvis was a Professor of Marketing and Merchants’ Council Professor of Retail Management and Consumer Behavior at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Florida and his Licentiaat in Experimental Psychology from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

His research and teaching interests focused on consumer behavior, specifically consumer decision making and strategies to increase consumer enjoyment. His research was published in leading journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Psychological Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Previous research projects have studied branding issues (such as consumers' evaluations of brand extensions and the effect of irrelevant product information), pricing issues (such as the biased processing of store price comparisons and the role of anticipated regret in purchase timing decisions), and the marketing of hedonic experiences (such as the effect of commercial interruptions on the enjoyment of television shows). Research projects focused on issues related to consumers' enjoyment: how consumers predict their enjoyment (and why they are often not very good at this) and how consumers can structure their experiences to maximize their enjoyment.

Research Interests

• Branding
• Consumer Decision Making
• Managing Consumer Experiences
• Pricing

Courses Taught

• Behavioral Economics and the Science of Decision Making
• Consumer Behavior
• Design and Analysis of Experiments

Academic Background

Ph.D., Marketing, 2001
University of Florida

Licentiaat, Experimental Psychology, 1996
Catholic University, Leuven Belgium

Kandidaat, Sociology, 1994
Catholic University, Leuven Belgium

Kandidaat, Psychology, 1993
Catholic University, Leuven Belgium

Awards & Appointments

Society for Consumer Psychology	Co-Chair of the Annual Conference	2013
Journal of Consumer Research	Outstanding Reviewer Award	2013
Marketing Science Institute	Marketing Science Young Scholar	2005
American Marketing Association	Winner John A. Howard Doctoral Dissertation Competition

Selected Publications

Meyvis, Tom, and Stijn M.J. van Osselaer (2017) (2017)
Increasing the Power of Your Study by Increasing the Effect Size
Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming

Tully, Stephanie M., and Tom Meyvis (2017)
Forgetting to Remember our Experiences: People Overestimate How Much They Will Retrospect about Personal Events
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Forthcoming

Tully, Stephanie M., and Tom Meyvis (2016)
Questioning the End Effect: Endings Are Not Inherently Over-Weighted in Retrospective Evaluations of Experiences
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Forthcoming

Hui, Sam K., Tom Meyvis, and Henry Assael (2014)
Analyzing Moment-to-Moment Data Using a Bayesian Functional Linear Model: Application to TV Show Pilot Testing
Marketing Science, 33 (2), 222-240, January 2014

Oppenheimer, Daniel, Tom Meyvis, and Nicolas Davidenko (2009)
Instructional Manipulation checks: Detecting Satisficing to Increase Statistical Power
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 867-872

Nelson, Leif and Tom Meyvis (2008)
Interrupted Consumption: Disrupting Adaptation to Hedonic Experiences
Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (December), 654-664

Meyvis, Tom and Chris Janiszewski (2002)
Consumers' Beliefs about Product Benefits: The Effect of Obviously Irrelevant Information
Journal of Consumer Research, 28 (March), 618-636