Ethan Pancer, Saint Mary's University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Saint Mary's University profile.

Latest papers

Artificial intelligence as a decision partner in food choice: Typology and research agenda.
Appetite · 2026
How humanoid robots influence consumer preferences in the foodservice industry.
Appetite · 2026
Robots in the kitchen: The automation of food preparation in restaurants and the compounding effects of perceived love and disgust on consumer evaluations.
Appetite · 2025 · first author

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Understanding Consumer Responses to Innovation in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$59,527
School Choice and School Segregation in Ontario: Using Large-Scale Geo-Data to Uncover Educational Inequalities
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$43,719
FEEDING THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY: USING SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT TO PREDICT RESILIENCE IN CANADA'S FOODSERVICE SECTOR
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$43,011

All 5 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Artificial intelligence as a decision partner in food choice: Typology and research agenda.

Cheah I, Pancer E, Huang J, Pink A, Parguel B, Keng-Highberger FT

Appetite2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2026.108784 PMID: 42705481

02

How humanoid robots influence consumer preferences in the foodservice industry.

McShane L, Taylor N, Noseworthy TJ, Pancer E, Philp M

Appetite2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108429 PMID: 41418912

03

Robots in the kitchen: The automation of food preparation in restaurants and the compounding effects of perceived love and disgust on consumer evaluations.

Pancer E, Noseworthy TJ, McShane L, Taylor N, Philp M

Appetite2025First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107723 PMID: 39490695

Understanding Consumer Responses to Innovation in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pancer, Ethan

Keywords: Consumer psychology; generative artificial intelligence; innovation; psychological essentialism

$59,527

School Choice and School Segregation in Ontario: Using Large-Scale Geo-Data to Uncover Educational Inequalities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chmielewski, Anna K.

Keywords: educational policy; quantitative methods; school segregation; school sorting; school choice; specialized programs; educational inequality; neighbourhood inequality; geographic information system; large-scale administrative data

$43,719

FEEDING THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY: USING SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT TO PREDICT RESILIENCE IN CANADA'S FOODSERVICE SECTOR

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Philp, Matthew

Keywords: social media; visual processing; food marketing; consumer behaviour

$43,011

Leveraging behavioral insights to connect recently unemployed Nova Scotians with free employment services to improve labor market attachment in the recovery from COVID-19

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Pancer, Ethan

Keywords: behavioural insights; COVID-19; labour market attachment; employment assistance services

$24,850

Using computer vision algorithms to optimize the communication of new products to grow the economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pancer, Ethan

Keywords: product design; new ventures; visual processing; machine learning; entrepreneurship; crowdfunding

$95,302

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Marketing
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Lindsay McShane

Marketing

2 shared papers, latest 2026

Matthew Philp

Marketing

2 shared papers, latest 2026

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Pancer, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Artificial intelligence as a decision partner in food choice: Typology and research agenda." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Understanding Consumer Responses to Innovation in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]