Christophe Lembregts

Dr. Christophe Lembregts investigates how consumers process numerical information and how it affects decision making. By building on research on numerical cognition, linguistics and decision making, he aims to advance knowledge of how consumers construct evaluations based on numerical information and which contexts increase consumers’ reliance on numerical information.

He published his research in international journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Economic Psychology. He is the recipient of various grants such as a FWO doctoral grant from the Belgian government and a NWO Veni grant from the Dutch government. Dr. Lembregts obtained his PhD at Ghent University (Belgium) and joined Rotterdam School of Management in 2015.

Dr. Lembregts teaches "Marketing Management" (BA 1 and 2), "Customer Experience Management" (MA) and coordinates the "Honours Class in Marketing Management" (MA).

Publications

• Ignazio Ziano, Christophe Lembregts & Mario Pandelaere (2022) - People weigh salaries more than ratios in judgments of income inequality, fairness, and demands for redistribution - Journal of Economic Psychology, 89
• Christophe Lembregts & J Pena-Marin (2021) - Numbers and Units Affect Goal Pursuit Organization and Motivation - Journal of Consumer Psychology, 31 (1), 37-54
• Christophe Lembregts (2019) - Do we really Understand the Numbers we Receive? - RSM Discovery, 36
• Christophe Lembregts & M Pandelaere (2019) - Falling Back on Numbers: When Preference for Numerical Product Information Increases after a Personal Control Threat - Journal of Marketing Research, 56 (1), 104-122
• Christophe Lembregts & Bram Van den Bergh (2019) - Making Each Unit Count: The Role of Discretizing Units in Quantity Expressions - Journal of Consumer Research, 45 (5), 1051-1067
• Dan Schley, Christophe Lembregts & E Peters (2017) - The Role of Evaluation Mode on the Unit Effect - Journal of Consumer Psychology, 27 (2), 278-286
• Christophe Lembregts & M Pandelaere (2014) - A 20% Income Increase for Everyone?": The Effect of Relative Increases in Income on Perceived Income Inequality- Journal of Economic Psychology, 43, 37-47
• Christophe Lembregts & M Pandelaere (2013) - Are All Units Created Equal? The Effect of Default Units on Product Evaluations - Journal of Consumer Research, 39 (6), 1275-1289
• M Pandelaere, B Briers & Christophe Lembregts (2011) - How to Make a 29% Increase Look Bigger: Unit Effect in Option Comparisons - Journal of Consumer Research, 38 (2), 308-322