Dr Heather Kappes

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Marketing Faculty Group

On leave Michaelmas Term 2016-17

Biography

Dr Heather Kappes is an Assistant Professor of Marketing. She joined LSE in 2012 after earning a PhD in Social Psychology at New York University. She conducts research on motivation and goal pursuit. Dr. Kappes is particularly interested in identifying unintended and potentially undesired consequences of individual and group self-regulatory strategies. Her research integrates work from decision-making, consumer behaviour, organisational behaviour, and psychology, and uses a variety of methodological approaches, measuring decisions, goal-striving behaviour, emotions, implicit cognition, and physiology.

Dr. Kappes has published in journals including Psychological Science, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Her research has been covered in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and Forbes.

Recent publications

Mental simulation as substitute for experience
Kappes, Heather Barry and Morewedge, Carey K. (2016) Mental simulation as substitute for experience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10 (7). pp. 405-420. ISSN 1751-9004
Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science
Open Science Collaboration, , Nosek, Brian A., Aarts, Alexander A., Anderson, Christopher J., Anderson, Joanna E. and Kappes, Heather Barry (2015) Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349 (6251). aac4716-aac4716. ISSN 0036-8075
Self-regulation of time management: mental contrasting with implementation intentions
Oettingen, Gabriele, Kappes, Heather Barry, Guttenberg, Katie B. and Gollwitzer, Peter M. (2015) Self-regulation of time management: mental contrasting with implementation intentions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45 (2). pp. 218-229. ISSN 0046-2772
The Reproducibility Project: a model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility
Open Science Collaboration, and Kappes, Heather Barry (2014) The Reproducibility Project: a model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In: Stodden, Victoria, Leisch, Friedrich and Peng, Roger D., (eds.) Implementing Reproducible Research. Chapman & Hall/CRC the R series. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, USA, pp. 299-324. ISBN 9781466561595
Investigating variation in replicability
Klein, Richard A., Ratliff, Kate A., Vianello, Michelangelo, Adams, Reginald B., Bahník, Štěpán, Bernstein, Michael J., Bocian, Konrad, Brandt, Mark J., Brooks, Beach, Brumbaugh, Claudia Chloe, Cemalcilar, Zeynep, Chandler, Jesse, Cheong, Winnee, Davis, William E., Devos, Thierry, Eisner, Matthew, Frankowska, Natalia, Furrow, David, Galliani, Elisa Maria, Hasselman, Fred, Hicks, Joshua A., Hovermale, James F., Hunt, S. Jane, Huntsinger, Jeffrey R., IJzerman, Hans, John, Melissa-Sue, Joy-Gaba, Jennifer A., Kappes, Heather Barry, Krueger, Lacy E., Kurtz, Jaime, Levitan, Carmel A., Mallett, Robyn K., Morris, Wendy L., Nelson, Anthony J., Nier, Jason A., Packard, Grant, Pilati, Ronaldo, Rutchick, Abraham M., Schmidt, Kathleen, Skorinko, Jeanine L., Smith, Robert, Steiner, Troy G., Storbeck, Justin, Van Swol, Lyn M., Thompson, Donna, van ‘t Veer, A. E., Ann Vaughn, Leigh, Vranka, Marek, Wichman, Aaron L., Woodzicka, Julie A. and Nosek, Brian A. (2014) Investigating variation in replicability. Social Psychology, 45 (3). pp. 142-152. ISSN 1864-9335

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