Prof. Amy DALTON
Associate Professor mkamy@ust.hk

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Academic qualification
PhD Duke University
BSc University of Toronto

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Professor Amy Dalton’s research focuses on consumer psychology, with an emphasis on factors that influence consumption and other behaviours outside conscious awareness. Amy has published her research in top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as practitioner journals, such as the Harvard Business Review. Her research has been featured by popular media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, and Forbes. Amy is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. She served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology (2015 - 2020) and on the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing Research (2014 - 2018). Amy joined HKUST’s marketing department in 2008 and teaches courses in marketing and consumer psychology. She holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in marketing from Duke University.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Identity
Consumption-based coping mechanisms
Goal pursuit
Nonconscious influences & automaticity

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PUBLICATIONS Liu, Joyce Jingshi, Amy N. Dalton, and Jeremy Lee (2021). The “Self” under COVID-19: Social role disruptions, self-authenticity and present-focused coping. PLoS ONE, 16(9), e0256939. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256939
Liu, Joyce Jingshi, Amy N. Dalton, and Jiewen Hong (2019). The Double-Edged Sword of Social Signaling: Antecedents and Consequence of Mixed Emotions in Counterfeit Brand Consumption. In S.K. Reddy & J.K. Han (Eds.), The Art and Science of Luxury: An Asian Perspective, Singapore Management University, Centre for Marketing Excellence, 117-127.
Dalton, Amy N., and Li Huang (2015). Motivated Forgetting Following Social Identity Threat. In B. Schmitt and L. Lee (Eds.), The Psychology of the Asian Consumer. New York: Routledge, 25-27.
Dalton, Amy N., and Li Huang (2014). Motivated Forgetting in Response to Social Identity Threat. Journal of Consumer Research, 40 (6), 1017-38. Lead article.
Dalton, Amy N., and Stephen A. Spiller (2012). Too Much of a Good Thing: The Benefits of Implementation Intentions Depend on the Number of Goals. Journal of Consumer Research, 39 (3), 600-14
- Featured in Journal of Consumer Research’s Research Curations (Summer, 2013); reprinted in Journal of Consumer Research, 41 (supplement), 97-111.
Laran, Juliano, Amy N. Dalton and Eduardo B. Andrade (2011). Why Consumers Rebel Against Slogans. Harvard Business Review, November, 1-2. Invited article.
Laran, Juliano, Amy N. Dalton and Eduardo B. Andrade (2011). The Curious Case of Behavioral Backlash: Why Brands Produce Priming Effects and Slogans Produce Reverse Priming Effects. Journal of Consumer Research, 37 (6), 999-1014.
Dalton, Amy N., Tanya L. Chartrand, and Eli J. Finkel (2010). The Schema-Driven Chameleon: How Mimicry Affects Executive and Self-regulatory Resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98 (4), 605-17.
Chartrand, Tanya L., Clara M. Cheng, Amy N. Dalton, and Abraham Tesser (2010). Nonconscious Goal Pursuit: Isolated Incidents or Adaptive Self-regulatory Tool? Social Cognition, 28 (5), 569-88.
Chartrand, Tanya L and Amy N. Dalton (2009). Mimicry: Its Ubiquity, Importance, and Functionality. In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 458-83.
Chartrand, Tanya L., Amy N. Dalton, and Clara M. Cheng (2008). Consequences of Nonconscious Goal Activation. In J. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation Science. New York: Guilford, 342-55.
Chartrand, Tanya L., Amy N. Dalton, and Gavan J. Fitzsimons (2007). Relationship Reactance: When Priming Significant Others Triggers Opposing Goals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 719-26.
Dalton, Amy N. (2007). Priming. In W. A. Darity (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2. Macmillan/Thomson Gale.
Chartrand, Tanya L. and Amy N. Dalton (2007). Mimicry. In R. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Finkel, Eli J., W. Keith Campbell, A. B. Brunell, Amy N. Dalton, Tanya L. Chartrand, and Stacy Scarbeck (2006). High-Maintenance Interaction: Inefficient Social Coordination Impairs Self-Regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 456 - 75.