I am excited to join the editorial review board at the Journal of Consumer Research.
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I am delighted to have been selected for a Bocconi Junior Research Grant for 2026. The grant of €10,000 is supported by the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi, to whom I am very grateful.
A nice summary of “Bounded Rationalization: The Role of Acceptance in Postchoice and Postassignment Rationalization” I wrote with Adam Eric Greenberg and Vicki Morwitz has appeared on the Bocconi web site.
The managerial takeaways of my research with Adam Eric Greenberg and Vicki Morwitz are discussed on Harvard Business Review.
Congratulations to Yongkun Liu for being selected to represent Bocconi at the 2026 AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium!
An article summarizing my research with Vicki Morwitz on “Speech and Evaluability: How Listening to Options Can Affect Choices and Evaluations” has appeared in Bocconi’s newsletter, viaSarfatti25.
I am delighted to announce that “How Perceptual Disfluency Affects Consumer Choices” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Consumer Research. The work is based on the dissertation of my former PhD student Shahryar Mohsenin.
The marketing department at Bocconi is now accepting applications to our PhD program!
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2026
Application info: www.unibocconi.it/en/programs/...
Program info: www.unibocconi.it/en/programs/...
I am delighted to announce that, “Bounded Rationalization: The Role of Acceptance in Post-Choice and Post-Assignment Rationalization” by Kurt P. Munz, Adam Eric Greenberg, and Vicki G. Morwitz has been accepted for publication at Psychological Review.
When Voices Defy Labels: The Hidden Challenge of Gender-Ambiguous Speech
In recent years, digital voice assistants have begun to diversify. In a bid to break from gender stereotypes, Apple introduced a new Siri voice in 2022 that didn’t sound clearly male or female. This move was praised for promoting inclusivity and challenging the norm of female-voiced, subservient AI. But it also raised an important question: how do people react when they hear a voice they can’t easily categorize by gender?
A new study by Shahryar Mohsenin and Kurt P. Munz, published in Psychological Science, reveals that people may react negatively to gender-ambiguous voices—not because of prejudice, but due to a phenomenon the authors call “social disfluency.” Drawing on a series of five preregistered experiments involving over 3,600 participants, the researchers explored how unfamiliar or hard-to-categorize voices influence how we judge the content those voices convey.
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