Dr. Tak Zhongqiang HUANG
Marketing

Associate Professor
3917 1612
takhuang@hku.hk
KK 702


Academic & Professional Qualification
PhD: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
MPhil: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bachelor: Sun Yat-Sen University
Biography
Zhongqiang (Tak) Huang joined the University of Hong Kong in 2017. He is generally interested in the effects of the emotions and feelings that individuals happen to be experiencing at the time they make a product decision on the nature of this decision.
Research Interest
Emotions and feelings about different points in time (e.g., nostalgia, death anxiety)
Mortality salience and consumer behavior
Metacognitive processes in consumer behavior
Variety-seeking behavior
Selected Publications
Huang, Zhongqiang (Tak), Yitian (Sky) Liang, Charles B. Weinberg, and Gerald J. Gorn (2019), “The Sleepy Consumer and Variety Seeking,”?Journal of Marketing Research, Forthcoming.
Huang, Zhongqiang (Tak), Xun (Irene) Huang, and Yuwei Jiang (2018), “The Impact of Death-Related Media Information on Consumer Value Orientation and Scope Sensitivity,”?Journal of Marketing Research, 55 (3), 432-45.
Huang, Xun (Irene),?Zhongqiang (Tak) Huang, and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (2018), “The Influence of Social Crowding on Brand Attachment,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 44 (5), 1069-84.
Huang, Xun (Irene),?Zhongqiang (Tak) Huang,?and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (2016), “Slowing Down in the Good Old Days: The Effect of Nostalgia on Consumer Patience,”?Journal of Consumer Research, 43 (3), 381-87.
Huang, Zhongqiang (Tak)?and Jessica Y. Y. Kwong (2016), “Illusion of Variety: Lower Readability Enhances Perceived Variety,”?International Journal of Research in Marketing,?33 (3), 674-87.
Huang, Zhongqiang (Tak)?and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (2015), “Diverging Effects of Mortality Salience on Variety Seeking: The Different Roles of Death Anxiety and Semantic Concept Activation,”?Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,?58, 112-23.