Dr Nicolette Sullivan

Dr Nicolette Sullivan

Assistant Professor

Department of Management

Telephone
020 7107 5120
Room No
MAR 6.22
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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Consumer behaviour, shopper insights

About me

Nikki Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before joining LSE, she was a Postdoctoral Associate working in Psychology and Neuroscience and Fuqua’s Marketing Department at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech and an M.A. from The University of Chicago where she also worked as a research professional for Department of Economics and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. She holds a B.A. from Miami University (Ohio) in psychology with a minor in neuroscience and concentration in biochemistry.

Nikki’s research combines techniques from marketing, economics, neuroscience, and psychology to investigate the mechanisms underlying consumer decision making. Much of her work is on choices involving self-control, and how to nudge consumers toward more patient choices using a variety of approaches. She has also conducted lab and field experiments with several Fortune 500 companies to improve customer experience. Her work has been featured in popular press outlets such as Huffington Post, ABC News, and Voice of America.

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Marketing Faculty Research Group 

Expertise Details

Consumer behaviour; shopper insights; self-control and environmental influences; judgment and decision making; process tracing methods; sensory marketing; cognitive modeling