L. J. SHRUM

L. J. Shrum is Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris. He holds a Ph.D. in Communications and a M.S. in Advertising from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Texas at San Antonio and at Rutgers University. He has also taught at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has been a visiting scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, School of Business and Management, and has held visiting professor positions at the NYU Stern School of Business, Tulane University, HEC Paris, and University of Sydney.

L. J. Shrum is a consumer psychologist whose research applies social cognition concepts to understand the determinants of consumer judgments. He has written extensively on how media information is used in the construction of values, attitudes and beliefs. His most recent research has focused on the multiples roles of the self in consumer judgment, particularly with respect to self-threat and its influence on materialism and conspicuous consumption. Other areas of research include psycholinguistics, and culture and its relation to consumer behavior. His research has appeared in leading journals in marketing, psychology, and communication, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Human Communication Research, and Public Opinion Quarterly, as well as numerous edited books. The second edition of his edited volume The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion, was published in 2012. His research has received a number of awards, including a Best Article Award from the Journal of Consumer Research (1997), finalist for Best Article Award from Journal of Consumer Research (1998), and honorable mention for the 1998 Ferber Award for best article based on a dissertation published in Journal of Consumer Research. He is past president of the Society for Consumer Psychology, and currently serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Media Psychology.