Biography

Scott Rick is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Rick received his PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon in 2007, and he then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Wharton. Rick's research focuses on understanding the emotional causes and consequences of consumer financial decision-making, with a particular interest in the behavior of tightwads and spendthrifts. The overarching goal of his work is to understand when and why consumers behave differently than they should behave (defined by an economically rational benchmark, a happiness-maximizing benchmark, or by how people think they should behave), and to develop marketing and policy interventions to improve consumers' decision making and well-being.

Rick has published in marketing, psychology, management, neuroscience, and economics journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Annual Review of Psychology, and Neuron. His research has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and Harvard Business Review. At Ross, he has won awards for both research and teaching.

He is the author of Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships, available in January 2024 from St. Martin’s Press.

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Authors
Madrian, B., Hershfield, H., Sussman, A., Bhargava, S., Burke, J., Huettel, S., Jamison, J., Johnson, E., Lynch, J., Meier, S., Rick, S., and Shu, S.
Published Date
2017
Authors
Madrian, B., Hershfield, H., Sussman, A., Bhargava, S., Burke, J., Huettel, S., Jamison, J., Johnson, E., Lynch, J., Meier, S., Rick, S., and Shu, S.
Source
Behavioral Science & Policy
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
27-40
Authors
Scott Rick, George Loewenstein
Published Date
2008
Authors
Scott Rick, George Loewenstein
Source
Journal of Marketing Research
Volume
45
Issue
6
Pages
645-648
Authors
Brian Knutson, Elliott Wimmer, Scott Rick, Nick Hollon, Drazen Prelec, George Loewenstein
Published Date
2008
Authors
Brian Knutson, Elliott Wimmer, Scott Rick, Nick Hollon, Drazen Prelec, George Loewenstein
Source
Neuron
Volume
58
Issue
5
Pages
814-822
Authors
George Loewenstein, Scott Rick, Jonathan Cohen
Published Date
2008
Authors
George Loewenstein, Scott Rick, Jonathan Cohen
Source
Annual Review of Psychology
Volume
59
Issue
1
Pages
647-672
Authors
Scott Rick, Cynthia Cryder, George Loewenstein
Published Date
2008
Authors
Scott Rick, Cynthia Cryder, George Loewenstein
Source
Journal of Consumer Research
Volume
34
Issue
6
Pages
767-782
Authors
Brian Knutson, Scott Rick, Elliott Wimmer, Drazen Prelec, George Loewenstein
Published Date
2007
Authors
Brian Knutson, Scott Rick, Elliott Wimmer, Drazen Prelec, George Loewenstein
Source
Neuron
Volume
53
Issue
1
Pages
147-156
The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption
Authors
Rick, S.
Published Date
08/2014
Authors
Rick, S.
Source
MIT Press
Pages
147-161
Tightwads, Spendthrifts, and the Pain of Paying: New Insights and Open Questions
Preston, S., Kringelbach, M., and Knutson, B.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Authors
Scott Rick
Published Date
04/2013
Authors
Scott Rick
Source
Sage
Emotions in Economic Behavior
Byron Kaldis
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
Authors
Scott Rick, Roberto Weber
Published Date
2012
Authors
Scott Rick, Roberto Weber
Source
Springer
Meaningful Learning in Economic Games
Norbert Seel
Oxford Companion to the Affective Sciences
Authors
George Loewenstein, Scott Rick
Published Date
2009
Authors
George Loewenstein, Scott Rick
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
131-133
Economics (Role of Emotion In)
David Sander, Klaus Scherer