• Bergner, A. S., Hildebrand, C., & Häubl, G. (2023). Machine Talk: How Verbal Embodiment in Conversational AI Shapes Consumer–Brand Relationships. Journal of Consumer Research, ucad014. pdf
  • Castelo, N., Boegershausen, J., Hildebrand, C., & Henkel, A. P. (2023). Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots. Journal of Consumer Research, ucad023. pdf
  • Clegg, Melanie, Reto Hofstetter, Emanuel de Bellis, and Bernd Schmitt (2023), “Unveiling the Mind of the Machine,” Journal of Consumer Researchpdf
  • de Bellis, E., & Johar, G. V. (2020). Autonomous shopping systems: Identifying and overcoming barriers to consumer adoption. Journal of Retailing96(1), 74-87. pdf
  • de Bellis, E., Hildebrand, C., Ito, K., Herrmann, A., & Schmitt, B. (2019). Personalizing the customization experience: a matching theory of mass customization interfaces and cultural information processing. Journal of Marketing Research56(6), 1050-1065. pdf
  • de Bellis, E., Johar, G. V., & Poletti, N. (2023). Meaning of Manual Labor Impedes Consumer Adoption of Autonomous Products. Journal of Marketing87(6). pdf
  • Ebert, T., Berkessel, J.B., Jonsson, T. (2023). Political person-culture match and longevity: The partisanship-mortality link depends on the cultural context. pdf Psychological Science, 34, 1192-1205
  • Ebert, T., Gebauer, J. E., Brenner, T., Bleidorn, W., Gosling, S. D., Potter, J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). Are regional differences in psychological characteristics and their correlates robust? Applying spatial-analysis techniques to examine regional variation in personality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 407–441. pdf
  • Ebert, T., Gebauer, J. E., Talman, J. R., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2020). Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts: A gravestone analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 1-6
  • Ebert, T., Götz, F. M., Gladstone, J., Müller, S. R., & Matz, S. C. (2021). Spending reflects not only who we are but also who we are around: The joint effects of individual and geographic personality on consumption. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121, 378-393. pdf
  • Harari, G. M., Müller, S. R., Stachl, C., Wang, R., Wang, W., Bühner, M., Rentfrow, P. J., Campbell, A. T., & Gosling, S. D. (2019). Sensing Sociability: Individual Differences in Young Adults’ Conversation, Calling, Texting, and App Use Behaviors in Daily Life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychologypdf
  • Hartmann, J., Bergner, A., & Hildebrand, C. (2023). MindMiner: Uncovering linguistic markers of mind perception as a new lens to understand consumer–smart object relationships. Journal of Consumer Psychology33(4), 645-667. pdf
  • Hildebrand, C., Häubl, G., Herrmann, A. (2014): Product Customization via Starting Solutions, Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 51(6), pp. 707-725. pdf
  • Hildebrand, C., Häubl, G., Herrmann, A., Landwehr, J. R. (2013): Conformity and the Crowd, Harvard Business Review, Jul.–Aug., p. 23. pdf
  • Hildebrand, C., Häubl, G., Herrmann, A., Landwehr, J. R. (2013): When Social Media Can Be Bad For You: Community Feedback Stifles Consumer Creativity and Reduces Satisfaction with Self-Designed Products, Information Systems Research, Vol. 24(1), pp. 14–29. pdf
  • Hildebrand, C., Schlager, T. (2019): Focusing On Others Before You Shop: Exposure To Facebook Promotes Conventional Product Configurations, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 47(2), pp. 291–307. pdf
  • Hofstetter, Reto, Emanuel de Bellis, Leif Brandes, Melanie Clegg, Cait Lamberton, David Reibstein, Felicia Rohlfsen, Bernd Schmitt, and John Z. Zhang (2022), “Crypto-Marketing: How Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Challenge Traditional Marketing,” Marketing Letters, forthcoming.
  • Mewes, L., Ebert, T., Obschonka, M. Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2022). Psychological openness and the emergence of breakthrough vs. incremental innovations: A regional perspective. Economic Geography, 98, 379-410
  • Rudd, M., Hildebrand, C., Vohs, K.D. (2018): Inspired to Create: Awe Enhances Openness to Learning and the Desire for Experiential Creation, Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 55(5), pp. 766–781. pdf
  • Schlager, T., de Bellis, E., & Hoegg, J. (2020). How and when weather boosts consumer product valuation. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science48(4), 695-711. pdf
  • Schlager, T., Hildebrand, C., Häubl, G., Herrmann, A., Franke, N. (2018): Social Customization Systems: Peer Input, Conformity, and Consumers’ Evaluation of Customized Products, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 35(1), pp. 319-349*.* pdf
  • Schoedel, R., Pargent, F., Au, Q., Völkel, S. T., Schuwerk, T., Bühner, M., & Stachl, C. (2020). To Challenge the Morning Lark and the Night Owl: Using Smartphone Sensing Data to Investigate Day–Night Behaviour Patterns. European Journal of Personality34(5), 733–752. pdf
  • Stachl, C., Au, Q., Schoedel, R., Gosling, S. D., Harari, G. M., Buschek, D., Völkel, S. T., Schuwerk, T., Oldemeier, M., Ullmann, T., Hussmann, H., Bischl, B., & Bühner, M. (2020). Predicting personality from patterns of behavior collected with smartphones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America117(30), 17680–17687. pdf
  • Stachl, C., Boyd, R. L., Horstmann, K. T., Khambatta, P., Matz, S. C., & Harari, G. M. (2021). Computational Personality Assessment. Personality Science2, 1–22. pdf
  • Stachl, C., Pargent, F., Hilbert, S., Harari, G. M., Schoedel, R., Vaid, S., Gosling, S. D., & Bühner, M. (2020). Personality Research and Assessment in the Era of Machine Learning. European Journal of Personality34(5), 613–631. pdf
  • Völkel, S. T., Schödel, R., Buschek, D., Stachl, C., Winterhalter, V., Bühner, M., & Hussmann, H. (2020). Developing a Personality Model for Speech-based Conversational Agents Using the Psycholexical Approach. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) – Proceedings, 1–14. pdf
  • Walter, M., Hildebrand, C., Häubl, G., Herrmann, A. (2020): Mixing it up: Disfluent Product Display Formats Promote the Choice of Unfamiliar Products, Journal of Marketing Research, Forthcoming. pdf
  • Whillans, A., de Bellis, E., Nindl, F., & Schlager, T. (2020). Robots Save Us Time—But Do They Make Us Happier?. Harvard Business Reviewpdf
  • Zierau, N., Hildebrand, C., Bergner, A., Busquet, F., Schmitt, A., & Marco Leimeister, J. (2023). Voice bots on the frontline: Voice-based interfaces enhance flow-like consumer experiences & boost service outcomes. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science51(4), 823-842. pdf
  • Zimmermann, Jenny, Jonas Görgen, Emanuel de Bellis, Reto Hofstetter, and Stefano Puntoni (2023), “Smart Product Breakthroughs Depend on Customer Control,” MIT Sloan Management Reviewpdf

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