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Latest funding
- $75,917
Marketing for businesses from marginalized groups: Breaking barriers for Indigenous-owned businesses
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $57,170
Phatic brand communication: how brands communicate with consumers using phatic language to create an atmosphere of sociability
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $171,663
Too much space is feeding food waste
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
Marketing for businesses from marginalized groups: Breaking barriers for Indigenous-owned businesses
Principal investigators: Lafreniere, Katherine C.
Keywords: consumer behaviour; advertising; communications; marginalized groups; cross culture; Indigenous business
Phatic brand communication: how brands communicate with consumers using phatic language to create an atmosphere of sociability
Principal investigators: Koo, Thomas
Keywords: marketing; consumer behaviour; brand communication; phatic language; digital marketing; social media marketing
Too much space is feeding food waste
Principal investigators: Argo, Jennifer J.
Keywords: food waste; consumer; marketing; retail; environmental cues
The public heart: the impact of sharing emotions on social media
Principal investigators: Moore, Sarah G.
Keywords: social media; social sharing of emotion; emotions; emotional intensity; brand attachment; consumer behaviour
The Role of Product Identity in Recycling Decisions
Principal investigators: Argo, Jennifer J.
Consumers' reactions to friendly/hostile treatment from service providers
Principal investigators: Popa, Monica
Keywords: social influences; consumer behaviour; pro-social behaviour; friendliness; helping; affect; service interactions
The silent influencer the impact of mannequins in a retail context
Principal investigators: Argo, Jennifer J.
Keywords: mannequins; consumer behavior; retail; social influence
Multi-category solution sets
Principal investigators: Swait, Joffre D.
Keywords: choice modeling; goals; solution set
Antecedents and consequences of status contagion in a consumer context
Principal investigators: McFerran, Brent
Keywords: consumer behaviour; marketing; social influence; status; contagion effects; social comparison
Positive consumer contagion
Principal investigators: Argo, Jennifer J.
Keywords: contagion; contamination; retail; consumer; positive
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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