Tanya Chartrand

Academic Area: Marketing

Teaching / Research Interests

Consumer Behavior, Social Psychology, Social Cognition, Automaticity and Nonconscious Processes, Research Methods

Bio

Tanya Chartrand is the Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Her research interests focus on the nonconscious processes influencing emotion, cognition, and behavior.

Tanya has published in numerous psychology and consumer behavior journals, including American Psychologist, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social Cognition. Tanya was a co-chair of the 2011 North American Association for Consumer Research Conference and was co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Consumer Psychology on Nonconscious Processes that appeared in 2011. She was also recently on the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, chairing the dissertation award, career trajectory award, and membership committees.

She received her PhD from New York University in social psychology, and was on the psychology faculty at Ohio State University before joining Duke University. Tanya teaches Market Intelligence and Consumer Behavior to the MBAs, Social Cognition, Research Methods, and Automaticity to the PhDs, and Psychology of Consumers to the undergraduates at Duke.