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Gabriele Paolacci

Associate Professor of Marketing Management
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Gabriele Paolacci is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Gabriele joined RSM after graduate studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (where he got his PhD) and at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (where he was a visiting scholar). In his research, Gabriele's focuses on consumer judgment and decision-making and on the methodology of data collection in behavioral science. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Psychological Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Trends in Cognitive Sciences. He is a recipient of a VENI research grant, and currently teaches Psychology & Business (M.Sc.) and Influencing People: Psychology and Practice (undergraduate). For more information download his CV or check www.gabrielepaolacci.com.

Publications

Article (20)

  • Academic (18)

    • Leung, E., Cito, MC. M., Paolacci, G. G., & Puntoni, S. S. (2021). Preference for Material Products in Identity-Based Consumption. Journal of Consumer Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1272

    • Paolacci, G., & Yalcin, G. (2020). Fewer but Poorer: Benevolent Partiality in Prosocial Preferences. Judgment and Decision Making, 15(2), 173-181.

    • Paolacci, G., & Chandler, J. (2018). Direct replications in the era of open sampling (commentary on “Making replication mainstream” by Zwaan, Etz, Lucas, and Donnellan). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41(2018), E144. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18000808

    • Leung, E., Paolacci, G., & Puntoni, S. (2018). Man Versus Machine: Resisting Automation in Identity-Based Consumer Behavior. Journal of Marketing Research, 55(6), 818-831. https://doi.org/10.1509/jmr.16.0443

    • Rick, S., Paolacci, G., & Burson, K. K. (2018). Income Tax and the Motivation to Work. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31(5), 619-631. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2078

    • Stewart, N., Chandler, J., & Paolacci, G. (2017). Crowdsourcing Samples in Cognitive Science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(10), 736-748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.06.007

    • Zwaan, R., Pecher, D., Paolacci, G., Bouwmeester, S., Verkoeijen, P., Dijkstra, K., & Zeelenberg, R. (2017). Participant Nonnaiveté and the reproducibility of cognitive psychology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(5), 1968-1972. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1348-y

    • Chandler, J., & Paolacci, G. (2017). Lie for a Dime: When most prescreening responses are honest but most study participants are imposters. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(5), 500-508. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617698203

    • Goodman, JK., & Paolacci, G. (2017). Crowdsourcing Consumer Research. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(1), 196-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx047

    • Stewart, N., Ungemach, C., Harris, A., Bartels, D., Newell, B., Paolacci, G., & Chandler, J. (2015). The Average Laboratory Samples a Population of 7,300 Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers. Judgment and Decision Making, 10(5), 479-491.

    • Chandler, J., Paolacci, G., Peer, E., Mueller, P., & Ratliff, KA. (2015). Using nonnaive participants can reduce effect sizes. Psychological Science, 26(7), 1131-1139. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615585115

    • Paolacci, G., Straeter, L., & Hooge, IE. (2015). Give Me Your Self: Gifts are Liked More When They Match the Giver's Characteristics. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 25(3), 487-494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcps.2015.01.006

    • Dannenberg, A., Löschel, A., Paolacci, G., Reif, C., & Tavoni, A. (2015). On the Provision of Public Goods with Probabilistic and Ambiguous Thresholds. Environmental and Resource Economics, 61(3), 365-383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-014-9796-6

    • Sweldens, S., Puntoni, S., Paolacci, G., & Vissers, M. (2014). The Bias in the Bias: Comparative Optimism as a Function of Event Social Undesirability. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 124(2), 229-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.03.007

    • Paolacci, G., & Chandler, J. (2014). Inside the Turk: Understanding Mechanical Turk as a Participant Pool. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(3), 184-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721414531598

    • Chandler, J., Mueller, P., & Paolacci, G. (2013). Nonnaïveté Among Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers: Consequences and Solutions for Behavioral Researchers. Behavior Research Methods, 46(1), 112-130. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-013-0365-7

    • Paolacci, G., Burson, K. K., & Rick, S. (2011). The intermediate alternative effect: Considering a small tradeoff increases subsequent willingness to make large tradeoffs. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21(4), 384-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcps.2011.04.005

    • Paolacci, G., Chandler, J., & Ipeirotis, P. (2010). Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Judgment and Decision Making, 5(5), 411-419. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/97680

  • Professional (2)

    • Paolacci, G. (2018). Crowdsourced consumer data: how do we make sure it's good? RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 34(2), 10-11. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/108776

    • Paolacci, G. (2015). Consumer insights: think of yourself when buying for others. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 23(3), 12-13. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/78691

Chapter (2)

  • Academic (2)

    • Leung, E., Paolacci, G., & Puntoni, S. (2019). How technology shapes identity-based consumer behavior. In Handbook of Research on Identity Theory in Marketing (pp. 240-254). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117739.00027

    • Chandler, J., Paolacci, G., & Mueller, P. (2013). Risks and Rewards of Crowdsourcing Marketplaces. In P. Michelucci (Ed.), Handbook of Human Computation (pp. 377-392). Springer. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/51293

Media

Media items

  • 3 ways you can become a better gift-giver according to science

    Inverse Sunday, 15 December 2019
  • Do Income Taxes Decrease Worker Motivation?

    Filing the annual income tax return is never a pleasant chore, but do taxes affect your motivation to work? The findings from economic research have been mixed. Rick, Burson and co-author Gabriele Paolacci of the Rotterdam School…

    CPA Thursday, 20 April 2017
  • Will paying income taxes make you work harder?

    Filing the annual income tax return is never a pleasant chore, but do taxes affect your motivation to work? The findings from economic research have been mixed. Rick, Burson and co-author Gabriele Paolacci of the Rotterdam School…

    Psych.org Monday, 17 April 2017
  • Will paying income taxes make you work harder?

    Filing the annual income tax return is never a pleasant chore, but do taxes affect your motivation to work? The findings from economic research have been mixed. Rick, Burson and co-author Gabriele Paolacci of the Rotterdam School…

    My Science Thursday, 13 April 2017
  • The Fine Line Between Optimism and Fakery

    To fill in the gaps, my co-authors (Stefano Puntoni, Gabriele Paolacci, and Maarten Vissers of Rotterdam School of Management) and I revisited data from 28 past studies on optimism bias, encompassing 8,826 participants in all. Our…

    Knowledge Monday, 23 January 2017
  • Psychologists grow increasingly dependent on online research subjects

    Gabriele Paolacci and other researchers made the first effort to estimate the effective MTurk research population, the results sent shock waves through the community last year. Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an online…

    Science Magazine Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Discovery items

ERIM AWARDS – RSM’s best research of 2020
Thursday, 28 January 2021

Each year ERIM recognises the best research articles, dissertations and young researchers in the ERIM Awards.

How consumers consume technology – and are affected by it
Sunday, 29 September 2019

Technology shapes behaviour of consumers and their consumption and poses opportunities and challenges for future development.

Automation: is your product too good?
Thursday, 10 January 2019

Making products more automated is good, right? Not always. Sometimes customers prefer less-automation, and it has everything to do with self-image.

Crowdsourced consumer data: how do we make sure it's good?
Friday, 6 July 2018

Over 15.000 consumer behaviour studies have used participants on online marketplace MTurk. How do researchers make sure such data is good?

Consumer insights: think of yourself when buying for others
Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Courses

Influencing People: psychology and practice

  • Study year: 2021/2022
  • Code: B3MIN1017
  • Level: Bachelor, Bachelor 3

Current Topics in Marketing Research

  • Study year: 2021/2022
  • Code: BERMASC040
  • ECTS: 5 Level: Master, PhD

Psychology & Business

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020
  • Code: BM25MIM
  • ECTS: 4 Level: Master

Past courses

Influencing people: psychology and practice

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016, 2014/2015
  • Code: BKBMIN017
  • Level: Bachelor, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3

Marketing Management Thesis Clinic

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018
  • Code: BMRMMM
  • ECTS: 4 Level: Master

MM Master Thesis

  • Study year: 2020/2021
  • Code: BMMTMM
  • ECTS: 16 Level: Master

Thesis Topic Development

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018
  • Code: BM06MM
  • ECTS: 1 Level: Master

Managerial decision making & negotiation

  • Study year: 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BM10MIM
  • ECTS: 2 Level: Master

Crowdsourcing Data Collection

  • Study year: 2014/2015
  • Code: BERMAMC011
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Master

International Marketing Research

  • Study year: 2014/2015
  • Code: BAB011
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Bachelor 2, Bachelor 2, Pre-master

Managerial decision making & negotiation

  • Study year: 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013
  • Code: BKM10GM
  • ECTS: 2 Level: Master

Marketing research

  • Study year: 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013
  • Code: BKB0024
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Bachelor 2, Pre-master

International Marketing Research

  • Study year: 2013/2014, 2012/2013
  • Code: BAB 11
  • ECTS: 3

International Marketing Research

  • Study year: 2012/2013
  • Code: BAB11
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Bachelor 2, Bachelor 2

Marketing management honours class

  • Study year: 2012/2013
  • Code: BKMME171
  • ECTS: 10 Level: Master

Awards

More information
Featured on RSM Discovery

ERIM AWARDS – RSM’s best research of 2020

ERIM AWARDS – RSM’s best research of 2020

Each year ERIM recognises the best research articles, dissertations and young researchers in the ERIM Awards.

Read more
Contact information

+31 10 4081715

gpaolacci@rsm.nl

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T10-17
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

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