Yeung, Catherine Wing-man（杨颖敏） BBA, PhD (HKUST)



Associate Professor
ContactDepartment of Marketing

Room 1104, 11/F
Cheng Yu Tung Building
12 Chak Cheung Street
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

+852 3943 9297

cyeung@cuhk.edu.hk


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BiographyProf. Catherine Yeung is Associate Professor of Marketing at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. Prof. Yeung joined CUHK in 2015. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor of Marketing at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on the psychology of judgment and decision making. She studies how people make decisions based on feelings, heuristics, and social norms. Her articles have appeared in academic journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Management Science and Journal of Consumer Psychology. Prof. Yeung also conducts community-based research, which develops and evaluates interventions that aim at improving individual and community well-being. She works extensively with partners including government agencies (e.g., the National Environment Agency of Singapore, Land Transportation Authority of Singapore) and community organisations (e.g., hospital and healthcare centres), who are interested in deriving policy implications based on research findings.
Teaching AreasStrategic Marketing
Consumer Insights
Research InterestsBehavioural Science
Consumer Well-being
Nudge
Publications & Working PapersSelected Academic Publications
Yih Hwai?Lee and Catherine Yeung, “Incentives for Learning: How Free Offers Help or Hinder Motivation,” International Journal of Research in Marketing, forthcoming. (Equal contribution)
Catherine Yeung, Teck-Hua Ho, Ryoko Sato, Noah Lim, Rob M. van Dam, Hong-Chang Tan, Kwang-Wei Tham, and Rehan Ali (2021), “Cash Incentives for Weight Loss Work Only for Males,” Behavioral Public Policy, accepted. (First two authors contributed equally)
Teck-Hua Ho, Ching Leong and Catherine Yeung (2020), “Success at Scale: Six Suggestions from Implementation and Policy Sciences,” Behavioral Public Policy, 5, Special Issue 1: Field Experiments and Public Policy, January, 71-79. (Equal contribution)
Teck-Hua Ho and Catherine?Yeung (2015), “Can a One-Time Incentive Induce Long-Term Behavioral Change?” California Management Review, 58(2), 113-128.
Teck-Hua Ho and Catherine?Yeung?(2014), “Giving Feedback to Clients,” Management Science, 60(8), 1926-1944.
Anirban Mukhopadhyay and Catherine?Yeung (2010), “Building Character: Effects of Lay Theories of Self-Control on the Selection of Products for Children,” Journal of Marketing Research, 47 (April), 2, 240-250.
Qiu Cheng, Yih Hwai?Lee, and Catherine?Yeung (2009), “Suppressing Feelings: A Double-edged Sword to Consumer Judgment and Choice,” Journal of Consumer Psychology,?19(3), 427-439. Winner of 2009 JCP Young Contributor Award.
Qiu?Cheng and Catherine?Yeung (2008), “Mood and Comparative Judgment: Does Mood Influence Everything and Finally Nothing?” Journal of Consumer Research, 34 (Feb).
Catherine?Yeung and Dilip Soman (2007), “The Duration Heuristic,” Journal of Consumer Research, 34 (Oct).
Catherine?Yeung and Dilip Soman (2005), “Attribute Evaluability and the Range Effect,” Journal of Consumer Research, 32 (Dec).
Catherine?Yeung and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (2004), “Affect, Appraisal, and Consumer Judgments,” Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (Sept).