Rik Pieters, Ph.D., is professor of marketing in the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TISEM) of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He received his doctorate in social psychology from the University of Leiden in 1989. Dr. Pieters believes in interdisciplinary work and that imagination, persistence and openness to surprise are a person's biggest assets. He has published more than 90 articles in marketing, psychology, economics and statistics. His work has appeared in Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, and International Journal of Research in Marketing. Dr. Pieters has published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, European Journal of Social Psychology, Emotion, Psychological Science, and Journal of Economic Literature. His research concerns attention and memory processes in marketing communication and the role of emotions in consumer decision making. He has served as co-chair of the Association for Consumer Research annual conference and has co-organized special conferences on visual marketing, social communication, and service marketing and management. He has taught internationally at Pennsylvania State University; University of Innsbruck, Austria; Koc University, Turkey; and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Pieters has been strategy director for national and international clients at the Prad/FCB Advertising Agency, Amsterdam office. He bakes bread, rides bikes, and drinks hoppy, fermented barley beverages -- all except the first in moderation.
