Vanessa Patrick

- Bauer Associate Professor

Vanessa Patrick

Bio

Dr. Patrick has a PhD in Business from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She has an MBA in Marketing and a BS degree in Microbiology and Biochemistry from Bombay University in India. She comes to the University of Houston from the University of Georgia. Dr. Vanessa Patrick’s research interests include the study of affect (mood and emotions), art and aesthetics, hedonics and luxury branding, and intertemporal issues in choice and consumption. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Empirical Studies of the Arts. Dr. Vanessa Patrick is a MSI Young Scholar nominated by the Marketing Science Institute, is the winner of the 2008 Davidson Honorable Mention Award for the Best article in Journal of Retailing 2006 (Volume 82), and was awarded a best paper of the Overall Conference and Best paper for the Consumer Behavior Track at the American Marketing Association Summer Educators Conference (2007). At the University of Georgia she was named Outstanding Marketing Teacher for Honors Day and was selected as one of the University of Georgia’s Top 10 Professors by the Academic Affairs Committee of the Student Government Association. Vanessa Patrick has worked in advertising and brand consultancy for six years prior to her academic career in multinational agencies like Ogilvy and Mather and J. Walter Thompson, working with companies like DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, L’oreal and Bacardi. She has also worked as a consultant to companies like the Coca-Cola Company, CNN and Hallmark.

Research Interests

  • Affect (mood and emotions)
  • Art and Aesthetics
  • Visual Persuasion
  • Luxury marketing
  • Branding
  • Future-oriented consumption

Areas of Expertise

  • Consumer Behavior
  • Branding

Publications

  • Hagtvedt, Henrik and Vanessa M. Patrick (2009), “The Broad Embrace of Luxury: The Role of Hedonic Perceptions in the Differential Influence of a Luxury (vs. Value) Brand Concept on Brand Extension Evaluations,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, forthcoming.
  • Patrick, Vanessa M., Hae Eun Chun and Deborah J. MacInnis (2009), “Affective Forecasting and Self-Control: When Anticipating Pride wins over Anticipating Shame in a Self-regulation context,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, forthcoming.
  • Patrick, Vanessa M., Matthew Lancellotti and Gustavo De Mello (2009), “Coping with Non-Purchase: Managing the Stress of Inaction Regret” Journal of Consumer Psychology, forthcoming.
  • Patrick, Vanessa M., Matthew Lancellotti and Henrik Hagtvedt (2009), “Getting a Second Chance: The Role of Imagery in the Influence of Inaction Regret on Behavioral Intent,” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 37 (2) 181-190.
  • Labroo, Aparna and Vanessa M. Patrick. “Why Happiness Helps You See the Big Picture.” Journal of Consumer Research, 35 (February), 800-809.
  • Cheema, Amar and Vanessa M. Patrick. “‘Only’ versus ‘Anytime’: The Effect of Restrictive versus Expansive Frames on Promotion Evaluation.” Journal of Marketing Research, (August 2008)
  • Hagtvedt, Henrik and Vanessa M. Patrick. “Art Infusion: The Influence of Visual Art on the Perception and Evaluation of Consumer Products.” Journal of Marketing Research, (May 2008)
  • Hagtvedt, Henrik, Reidar Hagtvedt, and Vanessa M. Patrick. “The Perception and Evaluation of Visual Art.” Empirical Studies of the Arts, (July 2008)
  • Hagtvedt, Henrik and Vanessa M. Patrick. “Art and the Brand: The Strategic Role of Art in Enhancing Brand Extendibility.” Journal of Consumer Psychology, (forthcoming July 2008)
  • Patrick, Vanessa M., Deborah J. MacInnis and C. Whan Park. “Not as Happy as I Thought I’d Be: Affective Misforecasting and Product Evaluations.” Journal of Consumer Research, 33, (2007), pp. 479-490.
  • MacInnis, Deborah J. and Vanessa M. Patrick. “A Spotlight on Affect: The Role of Affect and Affective Forecasting in Self-Regulation and Impulse Control.” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 16, (2006), pp. 224-231.
  • Patrick, Vanessa M. and C. Whan Park. “When to Pay? The Role of Transaction-Specific Characteristics and Consumer Motivations in Preferences for Payment Timing.” Journal of Retailing, 82, (4)
  • Folkes, Valerie S. and Vanessa M. Patrick. “The Positivity Effect in Perceptions of Services: Seen One, Seen Them All?” Journal of Consumer Research, 30, (1), pp. 125-137.

Contact Info

Phone:
713-7433661
Email:
vpatrick@uh.edu
Room:
385J
Website:
No Web Site Currently

Education

PhD, Marketing, U. of Southern California
MBA, Marketing, Bombay University
BSc., Microbiology & Biochemistry, St. Xavier’s College (Bombay)