University of Southern California
Department of Psychology / Brain & Creativity Institute
3620 South McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90089

Phone: (408) 813-8449
E-Mail: mreimann@usc.edu

Recent research highlights on emotion & consumption, and related topics

Positive emotion: What is the emotional significance of brand relationships? 

Consumers include brands in their "selves" (Reimann et al., Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2012).

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Method: How and when to triangulate 

Triangulation increases the reliability and validity of respondents (Homburg, Klarmann, Reimann, & Schilke, Journal of Marketing Research, 2012).

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Positive emotion: Why do we urge aesthetics? 

Aesthetic packages increase reward experience (Reimann et al., Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2010).

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Method: Brain activation as process measure 

Neuroimaging helps understand the processes underlying consumer judgment and choice (Reimann et al., Psychology & Marketing, 2011).

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Do somatic feelings influence brain states?  

Somatic markers drive decision-making processes (Reimann & Bechara, 2010, Journal of Economic Psychology).

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Negative emotion: Guards as evil as prisoners? 

Toward a neuroscience of evil (Reimann & Zimbardo, JNPE, 2011).

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