Prof. Echo Wen WAN
Marketing

Acting Director, Contemporary Marketing Centre
Professor
3917 4211
ewwan@hku.hk
KK 715


Academic & Professional Qualification
B.A (Economics), Nanjing University, P.R. China
M.S (Information Systems), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ph.D (Marketing), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, United States
Biography
Professor Wan’s major research interests are in the area of social and environmental influence, anthropomorphism marketing, and consumer behavior in digital era. Professor Wan has published research output at premier academic journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Consumer Psychology. She served as the Co-Chair for Association for Consumer Research, Asia-Pacific Conference in 2015. She currently serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Consumer Research and on the editorial board of Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Research Interest
Anthropomorphism in marketing
Health marketing
Social environment and consumer decision-making
New consumption form in digital era
Cognitive and Meta-Cognitive Process in Information Processing
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Publications
Wan Echo Wen and Rocky Peng Chen (2021), “Anthropomorphism and Object Attachment”, Current Opinion in Psychology. 39, 88-93.
Huang Feifei, Vincent Chi Wong, and?Echo Wen Wan?(2020), “The Influence of Product Anthropomorphism on Comparative Judgment,”?Journal of Consumer Research,?46(5), 936-955.
Lei Su,?Echo Wen Wan, and Yuwei Jiang (2019), “Filling an Empty Self: The Impact of Social Exclusion on Consumer Preference for Visual Density”,?Journal of Consumer Research,?46(4), 808-824.
Ding Ying,?Echo Wen Wan, and Jing Xu (2017), “Will Broad Identity Increase Preference for More Advanced Products? The Impact of Social Identity Framing on Consumer Choice,”?Journal of Consumer Psychology, 27 (2), 231-244.
Wan, Echo Wen, Rocky Peng Chen, and Liyin Jin (2017), “Judging a Book by Its Cover? The Effect of Anthropomorphism on Product Attribute Processing and Consumer Preference,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 43 (6), 1008-1030
Chen, Rocky Peng,?Echo Wen Wan, and Eric Levy (2017), “The Effect of Social Exclusion on Consumer Preference for Anthropomorphized Brands”,?Journal of Consumer Psychology, 27 (1), 23-34.
Wan, Echo Wen, Kimmy Chan, and Rocky Peng Chen (2016), “Hurting or Helping? The Effect of Service Agents’ Workplace Ostracism on Customers’ Service Perceptions,”?Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 44, 746-769.
Wan Echo Wen, Jing Xu, and Ying Ding (2014), “To Be or Not To Be Unique? The Effects of Social Exclusion on Consumer Choice,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 40 (6), 1109-1122.
Duclos Rod,?Echo Wen Wan, and Yuwei Jiang (2013), “Show Me the Honey! Effects of Social Exclusion on Financial Risk-Taking,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 40 (3), 122–135.
Wan Echo Wen?and Derek D. Rucker (2013), “Confidence and Construal Framing: When Confidence Increases versus Decreases Information Processing,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 39 (5), 977–992.
Chan Kimmy and?Echo Wen Wan?(2012), “How Can Stressed Employees Deliver Better Customer Service? The Underlying Self-Regulation Depletion Mechanism,”?Journal of Marketing, 76 (1), 119–137.
Wan Echo Wen?and Nidhi Agrawal (2011), “Carry-Over Effects of Self-Control on Decision-Making: A Construal Level Perspective,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 38 (1), 199–214.
Wan Echo Wen, Derek D. Rucker, Zakary L. Tormala, and Joshua J. Clarkson (2010), “The Effect of Regulatory Depletion on Attitude Certainty,”?Journal of Marketing Research, 47 (3), 531–541.
Agrawal Nidhi and?Echo Wen Wan?(2009), “Regulating Risk or Risking Regulation? Construal Levels and Depletion Effects in the Processing of Health Messages,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 36 (3), 448–462.
Wan Echo Wen, Jiewen Hong, and Brian Sternthal (2009),? “The Effect of Regulatory Orientation and Decision Strategy on Brand Judgments,” ?Journal of Consumer Research, 35 (6), 1026–1038.
Wan Echo Wen?and Brian Sternthal (2008), “Regulating the Effects of Depletion through Resource Monitoring,”?Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34 (1), 47-60.
Awards and Honours
Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Scholar, 2020
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Consumer Research, 2019
Best Paper Award, La Londe Conference, France, 2017.
Best Working Paper Award, Association for Consume Research Conference, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award, HKU Business School, 2015
Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar, 2013.
Research Output Prize, the University of Hong Kong, 2011.