Sydney Elizabeth Scott
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Area of Expertise:
Consumer Behavior and Decision Making
Research Interests:
I am an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. I study how consumers think about natural products, morality and consumption, and health and wellness. For example, I am interested in questions like: When and why do consumers want natural products? How do consumers think about health and well-being? My work has been published in top academic journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Psychological Science, and Nature: Human Behaviour, and has been featured in press outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Public Radio.
I received my Ph.D. in Marketing and Psychology from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 2017. I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2012.
Selected Publications:
- "“Good People Don’t Need Medication”: How Moral Character Beliefs Affect Medical Decision Making", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Article 104225, with J. Landy, 2023
- "In Goal Pursuit, I Think Flexibility is the Best Choice for Me, But Not for You", Journal of Marketing Research, with E. Williams, 2022
- "Consumers Prefer "Natural" More for Preventatives than for Curatives", Journal of Consumer Research, Issue 3, 454–471, with P. Rozin, D. Small, 2020
- "Actually, Natural is Neutral", Nature Human Behaviour, 989-990, with P. Rozin, 2020
- "Extreme Opponents of Genetically Modified Foods Know the Least, but Think They Know the Most", Nature Human Behaviour, 251-256, with P. Fernbach, N. Light, Y. Inbar, P. Rozin, 2019
- "An Overview of Attitudes Toward Genetically Engineered Food", Annual Review of Nutrition, 459-479, with Y. Inbar, C. Wirz, D. Brossard, P. Rozin, 2018
- "Evidence for Absolute Moral Opposition to Genetically Modified Food in the United States", Perspectives on Psychological Science, Issue 3, 315-324, with Y. Inbar, P. Rozin, 2016
- "Asymmetrical Social Mach Bands: Exaggeration of Social Identities on the More Esteemed Side of Group Borders", Psychological Science, Issue 10, 1955-1959, with P. Rozin, H. Zickgraf, F. Ahn, H. Jiang, 2014
- "Psychological Strategies for Winning Geopolitical Forecasting Tournaments", Psychological Science, Issue 5, 1106-1115, with B. Mellers, L. Ungar, J. Baron, J. Ramos, B. Gurcay, K. Fincher, D. Moore, P. Atanasov, S. Swift, T. Murray, E. Stone, P. Tetlock, 2014
Awards/Honors:
- The Cornell Saroj & Vithala Rao Young Scholar Award, SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, 2022
- Judith & William Bollinger Fellowship, The Wharton School, 2016
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Email: sydneyscott@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-2784
PhD 2017, University of Pennsylvania
MA 2013, University of Pennsylvania
BA 2012, University of Pennsylvania
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