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Email: dmick@virginia.edu

 

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS, WORKING PAPERS, AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Mick, David Glen, Simone Pettigrew, Cornelia (Connie) Pechmann, and Julie L. Ozanne, editors, Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being, Taylor & Francis, 950 pages, expected publication in summer 2011.

Mick, David Gen, Thomas S. Bateman, and Richard J. Lutz (2009), "Wisdom: Exploring the Pinnacle of Human Virtues as a Central Link from Micromarketing to Macromarketing," Journal of Macromarketing, 29 (2), 98-118. [PDF Version]

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (2008), "A Laboratory Study of the Effect of Verbal Rhetoric versus Repetition When Consumers Are Not Directed to Process Advertising," International Journal of Advertising, 28 (2), 287-312. [PDF Version]   

Mick, David Glen (2008), "Degrees of Freedom of Will: An Essential Endless Question in Consumer Behavior," Journal of Consumer Psychology, 18 (1), 17-21.  [PDF version]

Mick, David Glen (2008), "Inklings: From Mind to Page in Research," Research Design Quarterly, 3:4, October, 16-20. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2007), "The End(s) of Marketing and the Neglect of Moral Responsibility by the American Marketing Association," Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 26 (2), 289-292. [PDF Version]

James E. Burroughs, C. Page Moreau, and David Glen Mick (2008), "Toward a Psychology of Consumer Creativity," in Handbook of Consumer Psychology, eds. Curt P. Haugtvedt, Paul M. Herr, and Frank R. Kardes, New York: Erlbaum, 1011-1038. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2006), "Meaning and Mattering Through Transformative Consumer Research," Presidential Address before the Association for Consumer Research, Vol. 33, eds. Cornelia Pechmann and Linda Price, 1-4, [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2005), "I Like to Watch," Presidential Column for the Newsletter of the Association for Consumer Research, [Word Version]

Mick, David Glen (2005), "Inklings: From Mind to Page in Consumer Research," Presidential Column for the Newsletter of the Association for Consumer Research, [Word Version]

Mick, David Glen (2005), "Choice Writ Larger," Presidential Column for the Newsletter of the Association for Consumer Research, [Word Version]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Mick, David Gen, Thomas S. Bateman, and Richard J. Lutz (2009), "Wisdom: Exploring the Pinnacle of Human Virtues as a Central Link from Micromarketing to Macromarketing," Journal of Macromarketing, 29 (2), 98-118. [PDF Version]

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (2008), "A Laboratory Study of the Effect of Verbal Rhetoric versus Repetition When Consumers Are Not Directed to Process Advertising," International Journal of Advertising, 28 (2), 287-312. [PDF Version]   

Mick, David Glen (2008), "Degrees of Freedom of Will: An Essential Endless Question in Consumer Behavior," Journal of Consumer Psychology, 18 (1), 17-21.  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2008), "Inklings: From Mind to Page in Research," Research Design Quarterly, 3:4, October, 16-20. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2007), "The End(s) of Marketing and the Neglect of Moral Responsibility by the American Marketing Association," Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 26 (2), 289-292. [PDF Version]

Burroughs, James E. and David Glen Mick, "Exploring Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Creativity in a Problem-Solving Context," (2004), Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (2), 402-411.  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen, Susan Broniarczyk, and Jonathan Haidt (2004), “Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose:  Emerging and Prospective Research on the Deleterious Effects of Living in Consumer Hyperchoice,” Journal of Business Ethics, 52, 207-211. [PDF Version]

Cotte, June S., S. Ratneshwar, and David Glen Mick, "The Times of Their Lives: Phenomenological and Metaphorical Characteristics of Consumer Timestyles," (2004), Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (2), 333-345.   [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen, James E. Burroughs, Patrick Hetzel, and Mary Yoko Brannen (2004), "Pursuing the Meaning of Meaning in the Commercial World: An International Review of Marketing and Consumer Research Founded on Semiotics," Semiotica, 152 (1/4). 1-74.  [PDF Version]    [Word Version of Extended Bibliography]

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (2003), "Visual and Verbal Rhetorical Figures Under Directed Processing Versus Incidental Exposure to Advertising," Journal of Consumer Research, 29 (4), 579-587. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2003), "From the Editor:  Appreciation, Advice, and Some Aspirations for Consumer Research," Journal of Consumer Research, 29 (4), i - viii. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2000), "In Search of Significance (Statistical and Otherwise)," Educational and Psychological Measurement, Volume 60, No. 5, October, 682-684.  [PDF Version]

Fournier, Susan and David Glen Mick (1999), "Rediscovering Satisfaction," Journal of Marketing, October, 5-28. [PDF Version]

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (1999), "Visual Rhetoric in Advertising: Text-Interpretive, Experimental, and Reader-Response Analyses," Journal of Consumer Research, 26 (1), 37-54. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen and Susan Fournier (1998), "Paradoxes of Technology: Consumer Cognizance, Emotions, and Coping Strategies," Journal of Consumer Research, 25 (2), 123-143.a [Summarized in the Harvard Business Review by an associate editor, May/June, 1998; Summarized also in Insights, newsletter of the Marketing Science Institute, fall, 1998]  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen and Corinne Faure (1998), "Consumer Self-Gifts in Achievement Contexts: The Role of Outcomes, Attributions, Emotions, and Deservingness," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 15 (July), 293-307. [PDF Version]

Fournier, Susan, Susan Dobscha, and David Glen Mick (1998), "Preventing the Premature Death of Relationship Marketing," Harvard Business Review, January-February, 42-51.a [Translated into Japanese and reprinted in 1998 in Diamond Harvard Business, Diamond, Inc., Tokyo, Japan; also translated into Russian and reprinted in 2000 in Journal of Marketing and Marketing Research in Russia, 30 (6) 46-52] [PDF Version]

Ratneshwar, S., Luk Warlop, David Glen Mick, and Gail Seeger (1997), "Benefit Salience and Consumers' Selective Attention to Product Features," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 14 (July), 245-259.  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1996), "Are Studies of Dark Side Variables Confounded by Socially Desirable Responding? The Case of Materialism," Journal of Consumer Research, September, 23 (2), 106-121.  [PDF Version]

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (1996) , "Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language," Journal of Consumer Research, March, 22 (4), 424- 438. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen and Claus Buhl (1992), " A Meaning-Based Model of Advertising Experiences," Journal of Consumer Research, 19 (3), 317-338.  [PDF Version]

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (1992), "On Resonance: A Critical Pluralistic Inquiry into Advertising Rhetoric," Journal of Consumer Research, 19 (2), 180-197. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen, Michelle DeMoss, and Ronald J. Faber (1992), "A Projective Study of Motivations and Meanings of Self-Gifts: Implications for Retail Management," Journal of Retailing, 68 (2), 122-144.  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1992), "Levels of Subjective Comprehension in Advertising Processing and Their Relations to Ad Perceptions, Attitudes, and Memory," Journal of Consumer Research, 18 (4), 411-424. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen and Michelle DeMoss (1990), "Self-Gifts: Phenomenological Insights from Four Contexts," Journal of Consumer Research, 17 (3), 322- 332. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1988), "Schema-Theoretics and Semiotics: Toward More Holistic, Programmatic Research on Marketing Communication," Semiotica, 70, 1-26. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1986), "Consumer Research and Semiotics: Exploring the Morphology of Signs, Symbols, and Significance," Journal of Consumer Research, 13 (2), 196-213. [PDF Version]

BOOK CHAPTERS

James E. Burroughs, C. Page Moreau, and David Glen Mick (2008), "Toward a Psychology of Consumer Creativity," in Handbook of Consumer Psychology, eds. Curt P. Haugtvedt, Paul M. Herr, and Frank R. Kardes, New York: Erlbaum, 1011-1038. [PDF Version]

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (2001), "Contribution of Rhetorical and Semiotic Perspectives to Understanding Visual Persuasion in Advertising," in Visual Persuasion in Advertising, eds. Rajeev Batra and Linda Scott, Erlbaum Publishers, 191-221.  [PDF Version]

Huffman, Cynthia, S. Ratneshwar, and David Glen Mick (2000), "Consumer Goal Structures and Goal Determination Processes: An Integrative Framework," in The Why of Consumption: Contemporary Perspectives on Consumer Motives, Goals, and Desires, eds. S. Ratneshwar, David Glen Mick, and Cynthia Huffman, London: Routledge, 9 - 35. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1997) "Semiotics in Marketing and Consumer Research: Balderdash, Verity, Pleas," in Consumer Research: Postcards from the Edge, eds. Stephen Brown and Darach Turley, London: Routledge, 249-262. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1996), "Self-Gifts," in Gift-Giving: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, eds. Cele Otnes and Richard Beltramini, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 99-120.  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1994), "Per un' integrazione delle analisi semiotiche della pubblicita con i dati delle reazioni die consumatori" ["Toward an Integration of Semiotic Advertising Analysis with Consumer Response Data"], in Semiotic Al Marketing, ed. Roberto Grandi, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 83-94.

Mick, David Glen (1991), "Giving Gifts to Ourselves: A Greimassian Analysis Leading to Testable Propositions," in Marketing and Semiotics: Selected Papers from the Copenhagen Symposium, eds. Hanne Hartvig Larsen, David Glen Mick, and Christian Alsted, Copenhagen: Handelshojskolens Forlag, 142-159.  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen and Laura Politi (1989), "Consumers' Interpretations of Advertising Imagery: A Visit to the Hell of Connotation," in Interpretive Consumer Research, ed. Elizabeth C. Hirschman, Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, 85-96.  [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1988), "Contributions to the Semiotics of Marketing and Consumer Behavior (1985-1988)," in The Semiotic Web, eds. Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 535-584.

Mick, David Glen (1987), "Toward a Semiotic of Advertising Story Grammars," in Marketing Signs: New Directions in the Study of Signs for Sale, ed. Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 249-278. [PDF Version]

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Mick, David Glen (1997), "Searching for Byzantium: A Personal Journey into Spiritual Questions that Marketing Researchers Rarely Ask," Marketing Illuminations Spectacular, eds. Stephen Brown, Anne Marie Doherty, and Bill Clarke, Belfast, Northern Ireland: University of Ulster, 23-34. [PDF Version]

Faure, Corinne and David Glen Mick (1993), "Self-Gifts through the Lens of Attribution Theory," in Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 20, eds.Leigh McAlister and Michael L. Rothschild, Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, 553-556.

McQuarrie, Edward F. and David Glen Mick (1993), "Reflections on the Incidence of Classical Rhetorical Figures in the Headlines of Contemporary Advertisements," in Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 20, eds Leigh McAlister and Michael L. Rothschild, Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, 309-313. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen and Michelle DeMoss (1992), "Further Findings on Self-Gifts: Products, Qualities, and Sociodemographic Correlates," in Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 19, eds. John F. Sherry, Jr. and Brian Sternthal, Provo,UT: Association for Consumer Research, 140-146. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen and Michelle DeMoss (1990), "To Me from Me: A Descriptive Phenomenology of Self-Gifts," in Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 17, eds. Marvin E. Goldberg, Gerald Gorn, and Richard W. Pollay, Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, 677-682.

Ratneshwar, S., David Glen Mick, and Gail Reitinger (1990), "Selective Attention in Consumer Information Processing: The Role of Chronically Accessible Attributes," in Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 17, eds. Marvin E. Goldberg, Gerald Gorn, and Richard W. Pollay, Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, 747-553. [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (1989), "The Semiotic Motive in Consumer Behavior: Recent Insights from North American Research," in Homo Oeconomicus: Presumptions and Facts, Vol. 1, eds. Tadeusz Tyszka and Piotr Gasparski, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Science, 61-75.

Mick, David Glen (1988), "The Future of Post-Positivist Methods in Marketing: Naturalistic, Humanistic, and Interpretive Inquiry," in American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Conference Proceedings, eds. Gary Frazier et al., Chicago, IL: AMA, 532.

OTHER ARTICLES, EDITORIALS, AND ESSAYS

Mick, David Glen (2003), "Appreciation, Advice, and Aspirations," Final Editorial, Journal of Consumer Research, [PDF Version]

Mick, David Glen (2005), "I Like to Watch," Presidential Column for the Newsletter of the Association for Consumer Research, [Word Version]

Mick, David Glen (2005), "Inklings: From Mind to Page in Consumer Research," Presidential Column for the Newsletter of the Association for Consumer Research, [Word Version]

Mick, David Glen (2005), "Choice Writ Larger," Presidential Column for the Newsletter of the Association for Consumer Research, [Word Version]

EDITED BOOKS 

Ratneshwar, S. and David Glen Mick (2005), editors, Inside Consumption: Consumer Motives, Goals, and Desires, London: Routledge [editions in hardback and papeback] 

Ratneshwar, S., David Glen Mick, and Cynthia Huffman (2000), editors, The Why of Consumption: Contemporary Perspectives on Consumer Motives, Goals, and Desires, London: Routledge. [editions in hardback and paperback]

Larsen, Hanne Hartvig, David Glen Mick, and Christian Alsted (1991), editors, Marketing and Semiotics: Selected Papers from the Copenhagen Symposium, Copenhagen: Handelshojskolens Forlag.  [paperback]

INVITED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS & SEMINARS

University of California-Irvine, 2009
University of South Carolina, 2008
Georgetown University, 2006
Australian Graduate School of Management, 2004
University of Sydney, Australia, 2004
University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2004
Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 2003
University of Kentucky, 2002
New York University, 2001
Notre Dame University, 2000
University of Kansas, 2000
Duke University, 2000
University of Pittsburgh, 1999
University of Virginia, 1999
Florida International University, 1999
University of Iowa, 1999
University of Arizona, 1998
University of Missouri, 1998
Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland, 1998
London Business School, England, 1998
University College, Cork, Ireland, 1998
University of Vaasa, Finland, 1998
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 1998
Catholic University, Belgium, 1998
Dublin City University Business School Alumni Association,
       Ireland, 1998
Stanford University, 1997
Harvard University, 1996
University of Connecticut, 1996
Oxford University, England, 1996
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996
Dublin City University, Ireland, 1996
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 1996
University of Michigan, 1996, 1998
Energy Center of Wisconsin, 1995
Columbia University, 1994
Pennsylvania State University, 1994
Erasmus University, Netherlands, 1994
Roskilde University, Denmark, 1990
Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, 1990
Erasmus University, Netherlands, 1990
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, 1990
A. C. Nielsen Marketing Research Company,
       Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990
Marketing Graduates Association of the
       Copenhagen Business School, 1990
Odense University, Denmark, 1989
University of Aalborg, Denmark, 1989
University of Aarhus, Denmark, 1989
Marketing Management Club of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1989
Wyse Advertising, Cleveland, Ohio, 1988
University of Georgia, 1988
University of Florida, 1987
Ohio State University, 1987, 1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987, 1993
University of Minnesota, 1987
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School), 1987