
Daniella Kupor
Dean’s Research Scholar
Associate Professor, Marketing
Daniella Kupor’s research focuses on persuasion and decision making under risk and uncertainty. She has published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Her research has appeared in Bloomberg Business News, Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She received the Paul E. Green/Vithala R. Rao Award in 2024, the American Marketing Association (AMA) CBSIG Research in Practice Award in 2024, the Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP) Early Career Award in 2021, the Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) New Investigator Award in 2019, and the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) Ferber Award in 2016. She was also named a Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar in 2021. For her research contributions to Boston University, she was awarded the Broderick Award for Excellence in Research in 2019 and the Peter Paul Career Development Professorship in 2017. She earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Publications
Huang, S., Maimaran, M., Kupor, D. (2024). “Using Price Promotions to Drive Children’s Healthy Choices in a Developing Economy”, Journal of Marketing Research, 61 (6), 1-10
Woolley, K., Kupor, D., Liu, P. (2023). “Does company size shape product quality inferences? Larger companies make better high-tech products, but smaller companies make better low-tech products”, Journal of Marketing Research, 60 (3), 435-448
Karmarkar, U., Kupor, D. (2023). “The unlikelihood effect: When knowing more creates the perception of less”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152 (3), 906-920
Daniels, D., Kupor, D. (2023). “The magnitude heuristic: Larger differences increase perceived causality”, Journal of Consumer Research, 49 (6), 1140-1159
Schweidel, D., Bart, Y., Inman, J., Stephen, A., Libai, B., Andrews, M., Babic Rosario, A., Chae, I., Chen, Z., Kupor, D., Longoni, C., Thomaz, F. (2022). “How consumer digital signals are reshaping the customer journey”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 1-20
Reich, T., Savary, J., Kupor, D. (2021). “Evolving choice sets: The effect of dynamic (vs. static) choice sets on preferences”, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 164 (3), 147-157
Kupor, D., Jia, J., Tormala, Z. (2021). “Change appeals: How referencing change boosts curiosity and promotes persuasion”, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47 (5), 691-704
Park, J., Huang, S., Rozenkrants, B., Kupor, D. (2021). “Subjective age and the greater good”, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 31 (3), 429-449
Berman, J., Kupor, D. (2020). “Moral choice when harming is unavoidable”, Psychological Science, 31 (10), 1294-1301
Zlatev, J., Kupor, D., Laurin, K., Miller, D. (2020). “Being “good” or “good enough”: Prosocial risk and the structure of moral self-regard”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118 (2), 242-253
Kupor, D., Laurin, K. (2020). “Probable cause: The influence of prior probabilities on forecasts and perceptions of magnitude”, Journal of Consumer Research, 46 (5), 833-852
Kupor, D., Brucks, M., Huang, S. (2019). “And the winner is . . . ? Forecasting the outcome of others’ competitive efforts”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117 (3), 500-521
Huang, S., Kupor, D., Maimaran, M., Weihrauch, A. (2019). “Leveraging Means-Goal Associations to Boost Children’s Water Consumption: Persuasion in a Four-School, Three-Month Field Experiment”, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 4 (1), 77-86
Kupor, D., Reich, T., Laurin, K. (2018). “The (Bounded) Benefits of Correction: The Unanticipated Interpersonal Advantages of Making and Correcting Mistakes”, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 149 165-178
Kupor, D., Tormala, Z. (2018). “When Moderation Fosters Persuasion: The Persuasive Power of Deviatory Reviews”, Journal of Consumer Research, 45 (3), 490-510
Morewedge, C., Kupor, D. (2018). When the absence of reasoning breeds meaning: Metacognitive appraisals of spontaneous thought. In K, Christoff., K, Fox. (Eds.), “The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought”, Oxford 35-46
Kupor, D., Liu, W., Amir, O. (2018). “The Effect of an Interruption on Risk Decisions”, Journal of Consumer Research, 44 (6), 1205-1219
Reich, T., Kupor, D., Smith, R. (2018). “Made by Mistake: When Mistakes Increase Product Preference”, Journal of Consumer Research, 44 (5), 1085-1103
Consiglio, I., Kupor, D., Gino, F., Norton, M. (2018). “Brand (in)fidelity: When Flirting with the Competition Strengthens Brand Relationships”, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 28 (1), 5-22
Kupor, D., Flynn, F., Norton, M. (2017). “Half a Gift Is Not Half-Hearted: A Giver-Receiver Asymmetry in the Thoughtfulness of Partial Gifts”, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43 (12), 1686-1695
Khan, U., Kupor, D. (2017). “Risk (Mis)Perception: When Greater Risk Reduces Risk Valuation”, Journal of Consumer Research, 43 (5), 769-786
Kupor, D., Tormala, Z. (2015). “Persuasion, Interrupted: The Effect of Momentary Interruptions on Message Processing and Persuasion”, Journal of Consumer Research, 42 (2), 300-315
Kupor, D., Laurin, K., Levav, J. (2015). “Anticipating Divine Protection? Reminders of God Can Increase Nonmoral Risk Taking”, Psychological Science, 26 (4), 374-384
Kupor, D., Reich, T., Shiv, B. (2015). “Can’t Finish What You Started? The Effect of Climactic Interruption on Behavior”, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 25 (1), 113-119
Kupor, D., Tormala, Z., Norton, M. (2014). “The Allure of Unknown Outcomes: Exploring the Role of Uncertainty in the Preference for Potential”, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55 210-216
Kupor, D., Tormala, Z., Norton, M., Rucker, D. (2014). “Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One’s Influence and Appeal”, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5 (3), 263-270
Torfason, M., Flynn, F., Kupor, D. (2013). “Here Is a Tip: Prosocial Gratuities Are Linked to Corruption”, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4 (3), 348-354