Amit Bhattacharjee

Education

Ph.D. and M.S., marketing, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Summary of Experience

Professor Bhattacharjee uses surveys and experimental methods to investigate how moral psychology shapes marketplace judgments and consumption behaviors. In particular, his research examines how lay consumers understand markets differently from economic experts; how they think about inequality, market fairness, and welfare; how they perceive the relationship between morality and market performance; and how they express their values and beliefs through their consumption choices.

Professor Bhattacharjee’s research has been published in leading academic journals across business and psychology, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and is regularly covered by major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and NPR. His work has been recognized with the Journal of Consumer Research Best Article Award, and he has been selected as a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar. Prior to joining Leeds, Professor Bhattacharjee served on the faculty at INSEAD and the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, and was a visiting scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.