Our community will reconvene for ACR 2023, October 26-28, 2023, in Seattle, the City of Goodwill. In a play on the city’s motto, the conference will be dedicated to Spreading Good…Well.

Our theme of “Spreading Good…Well” can be interpreted in multiple ways, depending on the lens of the reader.

• Sessions will be packed with Good quality, rigorous research that is Well done: across a variety of paradigms and methodologies. Examples of these include our Methods workshops, special, competitive, and working papers, as well as roundtables and videography sessions that will be inclusive of a wide range of research that is of interest to consumer researchers. 

• Many conference sessions will be designed along the theme of helping our community Spread Goodwill and doing it Well! For example, our planned plenary sessions that will focus on issues related to business ethics, corporate social responsibility, environmental marketing, consumer health (food consumption, addiction), financial decision making, responses to scarcity, special populations (subsistence marketplaces, the homeless and other vulnerable populations), and charitable giving. We will pepper the conference with different types of sessions devoted to these topics (e.g., in films, working paper poster sessions, competitive paper sessions, and special sessions).

• Spreading Good … Well, can also mean sharing your mentorship tips and skills with young researchers, especially PhD students. To this end, we will continue, and enlarge, the excellent 2022 initiative of the Networking Lunch, and will continue with the Early Career and Mid-Career Workshops.

• Spreading Good … Well, can be construed as ways to make a positive societal social impact through charities and donations. You will have an opportunity to engage in these behaviors, in a fun manner, during the conference! 

• Spreading Good … Well can be a personal endeavor too. In addition to sessions highlighting the latest consumer research and methodologies, we will help Spread the Good by offering Wellness classes. Finally, we will Spread the Good by tapping all of your senses when we bring the Seattle experience to you with Good food, coffee and wine tastings from local companies, and a variety of drinks and music at our social events.
  
  ACR 2023 Teaser: The conference will kick off with a series of pre-conference sessions: the ACR/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Symposium, the Early Career Workshop and the Mid-Career Workshop. The conference will begin with an Opening Reception on Thursday, October 26. The next two days, October 27 and 28th, will comprise of plenary sessions, research presentations including papers and films, and method workshops. Highlights of the conference will include addresses by our ACR President, Tina M. Lowrey, and the 2023 ACR Fellows, Rik Pieters, and Susan Fournier. The conference will conclude with a Gala on Saturday evening at the Museum of Pop Culture, which will offer good food, wine, music, and the opportunity to help a charity to allow the ACR community to interact and Spread Good … Well!
  Please submit your best work in the form of working papers (for the poster session), competitive papers, proposals for special sessions and roundtables, and films.

We look forward to welcoming you for ACR 2023 in Seattle, a city that is well known for its lively blend of music, food, and ethnic diversity, as well as for “Spreading Goodwill!”

Come and join us in Spreading Good … Well!

Your ACR 2023 Conference Co-Chairs,
Lan Nguyen Chaplin, Priya Raghubir, and Keith Wilcox

Our community will reconvene for ACR 2023, October 26-28, 2023, in Seattle, the City of Goodwill. In a play on the city’s motto, the conference will be dedicated to Spreading Good…Well.
Our theme of “Spreading Good…Well” can be interpreted in multiple ways, depending on the lens of the reader.

• Sessions will be packed with Good quality, rigorous research that is Well done: across a variety of paradigms and methodologies. Examples of these include our Methods workshops, special, competitive, and working papers, as well as roundtables and videography sessions that will be inclusive of a wide range of research that is of interest to consumer researchers. 

• Many conference sessions will be designed along the theme of helping our community Spread Goodwill and doing it Well! For example, our planned plenary sessions that will focus on issues related to business ethics, corporate social responsibility, environmental marketing, consumer health (food consumption, addiction), financial decision making, responses to scarcity, special populations (subsistence marketplaces, the homeless and other vulnerable populations), and charitable giving. We will pepper the conference with different types of sessions devoted to these topics (e.g., in films, working paper poster sessions, competitive paper sessions, and special sessions).

• Spreading Good … Well, can also mean sharing your mentorship tips and skills with young researchers, especially PhD students. To this end, we will continue, and enlarge, the excellent 2022 initiative of the Networking Lunch, and will continue with the Early Career and Mid-Career Workshops.

• Spreading Good … Well, can be construed as ways to make a positive societal social impact through charities and donations. You will have an opportunity to engage in these behaviors, in a fun manner, during the conference! 

• Spreading Good … Well can be a personal endeavor too. In addition to sessions highlighting the latest consumer research and methodologies, we will help Spread the Good by offering Wellness classes. Finally, we will Spread the Good by tapping all of your senses when we bring the Seattle experience to you with Good food, coffee and wine tastings from local companies, and a variety of drinks and music at our social events.

   

ACR 2023 Teaser: The conference will kick off with a series of pre-conference sessions: the ACR/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Symposium, the Early Career Workshop and the Mid-Career Workshop. The conference will begin with an Opening Reception on Thursday, October 26. The next two days, October 27 and 28th, will comprise of plenary sessions, research presentations including papers and films, and method workshops. Highlights of the conference will include addresses by our ACR President, Tina M. Lowrey, and the 2023 ACR Fellows, Rik Pieters, and Susan Fournier. The conference will conclude with a Gala on Saturday evening at the Museum of Pop Culture, which will offer good food, wine, music, and the opportunity to help a charity to allow the ACR community to interact and Spread Good … Well!

 

 

Register here!

PRESENTING A WORKING PAPER AT ACR 2023

 

Your working paper presentation:
Friday, October 27, 2023 from 6:30-8:00 pm
Grand Ballroom and Grand Pre-function Area

Working papers will be presented in the form of posters, which will be grouped by theme. At least
one of the authors must be present during the session on Friday, October 27th from 6:30-8:00 pm
and be ready to interact with attendees while standing close to their poster. If one author
represents a team that wrote the paper, that person should be capable of responding to questions
concerning all aspects of the presented research.
A poster is a lovely way to present your research. You should aim to use the poster as a means
for generating active discussion of the research. It is helpful if poster presenters bring handouts or
printed copies of the working paper to distribute among interested poster visitors. Before the
poster session, do prepare and rehearse a summary talk on your project. Many viewers will be in a
hurry and will want a quick "guided tour" of your poster. Don't be afraid to point out uncertainties in your work; this is where you may get useful feedback. Your poster will be listed in the program
and the short abstract of your working paper will appear in the conference proceedings.

Poster Installation

Starting at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, October 27th you can come to the Grand Ballroom Prefunction
Area and Ballroom on the second floor of the Sheraton to affix your poster. The week before the
conference, you will receive your poster number and a floorplan of the working papers session so
that you can see where your poster will be displayed. We will provide push pins for you to attach
your posters.

Format:
Please note: You will be sharing one side of a 4’x8’ poster board with another presenter.
Therefore, the maximum poster size should be 46” (116.84 cm) x 42” (106.68). Our poster boards
can only accommodate posters in portrait format. We recommend you NOT laminate your poster
with plastic. Laminated posters tend to curl and are difficult to affix to the boards.
Here’s an example of a past poster session board with two posters.

Design and layout specifications:

Keep in mind that a poster is a graphical approach to presenting research.

• You can attract attention with a good topic and a visually appealing presentation.
• Organization and clarity are critical. Limit the text to one fourth of the poster space, and mainly rely on visuals (graphs, photographs, flowcharts, etc.) to tell your story
• Your poster title and author information should be positioned at the top-center of the poster. Font size for the title should be at least 70 points, for author information at least 30 points. Use all capital letters for the title.
• Make it obvious to the viewer how to navigate the poster. The poster generally should read from left to right, and top to bottom. Numbering individual panels or connecting them with arrows is a standard guidance system
• Leave some open space in the design. An open layout is less tiring to the eye and mind.
• Text should be readable from 1.50 meters distance. Use a minimum font size of 24 points.

Visuals:

Present numerical data in the form of graphs, rather than tables. Graphs make relationships
between variables or differences between means much more evident. If data must be presented in
table-form, KEEP IT SIMPLE.

• Visuals should be simple. Leave out or remove any unnecessary details.
• Make sure that any visual can stand alone (i.e., graph axes are properly labeled, symbols are explained, etc.).
• Use color to enhance comprehension, not to decorate the poster.
• Make sure that the text and the visuals are integrated. Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Each visual should have a brief title.

Text:

Use text to (a) introduce the study: What hypothesis was tested or what problem was investigated? Why was the study worth doing? (b) explain visuals and direct viewer attention to relevant data and relationships portrayed in the visuals, and (c) state and explain the interpretations that follow from the data. In many cases, conclusions can be summarized in a bullet-point list.

Add key references to the paper, but do not exaggerate. References should be
formatted according to the guidelines in the paper submission guidelines.

If you have any questions about poster presentations, please email: [email protected]

ACR 2023 Working Paper Co-Chairs:
Gabriele Paolacci
Eesha Sharma
Dengfeng Yan
Linda Tuncay Zayer

ACR 2023 will be in person to allow the community to continue to connect with friends, colleagues, and collaborators, old and new.  Some content will be accessible to virtual attendees, but, due to technical constraints, we do not plan to livestream sessions. All presentations at the conference will be delivered in person. If you submit a paper or proposal or film, it is with the understanding that you or a co-author will attend the conference to present it.

 Program

 

2023 ACR Doctoral Symposium
“Lessons Learned”
Co-chairs: Selin Atalay & Fleura Bardhi

Thursday, October 26, 2023

8:00    Breakfast

8:30 – 9:30   Meet the Editors 

9:40 – 11:00  Concurrent sessions: “Submitting your First Paper and Dealing with Reviews” 

Multiple sessions in workshop format; Editors and AEs will answer questions like: how to approach Reviews; how do Editors/ reviewers read manuscript; deal with conflict between reviewers/ Editor etc.) 

1. JCR & JCP & JACR
2. JMR & IJRM 
3. JM & JAMS

11:00-11:15   Coffee Break

11:15- 12:30  Concurrent Sessions: “Lessons Learned” 

1. Learning from our Eminent Scholars in Consumer Research
   Russ Belk, Barbara Kahn, Angele Lee
2. Figuring out my Researcher Identity
   Carey Morewedge, Aradhna Krishna; Simon Blanchard, Michel Tuan Pham
3. Managing my Diverse Identity in Marketing Academia 
   Maura Scott, David Crocket, Samatha Cross, Carolyn Yoon, David Wooten
4. Doing interesting research in CB
   Linda Price, Leonard Lee, Karen Winterich, Simona Botti
5. Life changing moves
   Stijin van Osslear, Cristel Antonia Russell, LJ Shrum, Joachim Vosgerau

12.30-14:00  Networking Lunch 
(A focus on sharing job market information based on matching Europe/North American)

14:00- 16:00   “Speed Mentoring” 
Feedback from mentors on research
(Round tables with 4-6 people; work together for one hour and then shift to a different team/panel.)

16:00-16:15   Closing Remarks

 

Early Career Workshop

 

Organized by Hannah H. Chang (Singapore Management University), Keisha Cutright (Duke University), and Zeynep Gürhan Canlı (Koç University)

Description: This workshop is designed to support the career development of pre-tenure scholars by targeting some of the major priorities, challenges, and trade-offs that they face. The workshop aims to offer practical advice on how to navigate pre-tenure challenges and facilitate open discussions for longer term success. The workshop will consist of two panel discussions and break-out sessions.

Workshop format: In-person at the conference hotel, Sheraton Grand Seattle

Schedule: Thursday October 26, 1:00pm to 4:00pm 

S/N	Program	Time
1	Ice Breaker	1:00-1:10pm
2	Panel #1: Common pre-tenure concerns, priorities, challenges, trade-offs	1:10-1:55pm
3	Breakout sessions (small group discussions)	2:00-2:55pm
4	Panel #2: Emerging challenges	3:00-4:00pm

 

Panel #1: A panel of senior scholars will share their views and suggestions on important pre-tenure
concerns, such as:

● How to prepare for the tenure process (e.g., letter writers, networking)
● Managing research portfolio, pipeline, and output: Quantity vs. quality dilemma
● Managing teaching expectations
● Managing service
● How to manage time amidst various commitments

Breakout sessions: Workshop attendees will participate in small breakout sessions with senior scholars.

Panel #2: A panel of senior scholars will share their views on pre-tenure challenges related to important macro-environmental issues such as:

● Social/economic/political uncertainty
● Technological advancements such as chatGPT and generative AI
● Open science practice
● DEI in teaching and research

Midcareer Workshop

This year's Midcareer Workshop is co-chaired by Gerald Häubl, Aradhna Krishna, and Kathleen Vohs.

ACR 2023 Mid-Career Workshop - October 26th

2:00pm-3:00pm
Plenary Panel: "Things I Wish I Had Known Earlier in My Career" 

- Russ Belk (York University)
- Chris Janiszewski (University of Florida)
- Barbara Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)
- John Lynch (University of Colorado)
- Vicki Morwitz (Columbia University)
- Kate White (University of British Columbia)

3:15pm-4:00pm
Parallel Sessions (Round 1)

• How to Develop an Impactful Research Program

        - Rashmi Adaval (University of Cincinnati)
        - David Gal (University of Illinois at Chicago)
        - Stijn van Osselaer (Cornell University) 

• How to Have Your Research Impact Practice

        - Eric Johnson (Columbia University)
        - Dilip Soman (University of Toronto)
        - Mary Steffel (Northeastern University) 

• How to Be(come) an Effective Mentor

        - Joann Peck (University of Wisconsin)
        - Ayelet Gneezy (UC San Diego)
        - Joe Redden (University of Minnesota) 

• How to Serve the Academic Community

        - Rajiv Vaidyanathan (University of Minnesota Duluth)
        - Karen Winterich (Pennsylvania State University)
        - David Wooten (University of Michigan)

4:10-4:55
Parallel Sessions (Round 2)

• How to Maintain a Passion for Research

        - Sharon Ng (Nanyang Technological University)
        - L. J. Shrum (HEC Paris)
        - Michel Pham (Columbia)

• How to Promote Your Research to a Broad Audience

        - Markus Giesler (York University)
        - Cassie Holmes (UCLA)
        - Uma Karmarkar (UC San Diego) 

• How to Be(come) a Great Teacher

        - Zachary Estes (City University of London)
        - Ryan Hamilton (Emory University)
        - Cait Lamberton (University of Pennsylvania) 

• How to Be(come) a Leader at Your Institution

        - Susan Fournier (Boston University)
        - Zeynep Gürhan-Canli (Koc University)
        - Anirban Mukhopadhyay (HKUST) 

 4:55-5:15
Closing Remarks

Hotel

The conference will take place at the Sheraton Grand Seattle - 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101.  The hotel is centrally located in Seattle and a short walk to the Seattle waterfront and famous Pike Place Market!

ACR has negotiated special room rates for ACR conference attendees.  Book your room as soon as you are able, as there are a limited number of rooms at the special rate.

Book your room here:   https://book.passkey.com/e/50596483 

 

2023 Saturday Night Gala

The Gala will take place at the Museum of Pop Culture - 325 5th Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109

MoPOP is home to the worlds most immersive pop culture experiences, showcasing iconic moments in TV, rock n roll music, science fiction, and much more. 

 

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