Hello! I am an incoming Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in the Marketing and Management departments. During the summer of 2024, I will be a Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management in the Behavioral Decision Making department.
Using a variety of research methods, such as laboratory, longitudinal, field, and cross-cultural experiments, I study questions that touch on global poverty & inequality, prosociality, and moral psychology. My main stream of research investigates the psychology of charitable receiving and giving, and a second stream of research explores the psychological process of moralization. Specifically, my research centers around three key questions:
- When does receiving help positively vs. negatively impact aid recipients’ psychological experience and, in turn, their acceptance or utilization of the help?
- What factors increase (longterm, effective) prosocial and charitable consumer behaviors?
- How do new moral stances develop and evolve?
I take an interdisciplinary approach to research, pulling from behavioral marketing, organizational behavior, social psychology, behavioral (development) economics, and moral philosophy. My work has been published in top scientific journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Research in Organizational Behavior. I received my M.S. and Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, my M.A. in Social Science from the University of Chicago, and my B.S. in Psychology from THE Ohio State University (go Buckeyes!).
If you are interested in working together or have any questions about my research, please feel free to contact me at samantha.kassirer@kellogg.northwestern.edu. Thanks for visiting my website!
