At-large Directors

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Voting.  Passage of any question before the Board of Directors shall occur under the following conditions: (1) a quorum of the Board of Directors exists; and (2) there is an affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors participating in the quorum.

Budgets. The Board of Directors shall review and approve all Association budgets. The Board of Directors has the authority to hire independent contractors to perform duties approved by the Board.

Recommendations to Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors shall consider proposals regarding conferences including those outside of the USA and Canada for approval. The proposals shall include conference aims, chairs, location, proceedings plans, and a pro-forma budget. The Board of Directors shall consider standing committee, task force, and other recommendations for approval.

Grants and Donations. Acceptance of any grants or donations shall be approved by the Board of Directors, provided, however, that no such grants or donations shall be accepted if contingent upon special services that are in opposition to the purposes of the Association as outlined in Article II hereof.

Stacy Wood

Stacy Wood is the Langdon Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University. Her research interests are in the psychology of innovation, exploring how consumers adopt, adapt to, or reject new things—from high tech products to social trends.  Stacy conducts both traditional behavioral experiments as well as new brain-imaging technologies (e.g., fMRI) in decision neuroscience.  Stacy has published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and Journal of Consumer Psychology. She currently serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Research and has been a member of the Association for Consumer Research for over 15 years. She has attended every North American conference since her first year as a doctoral student at the University of Florida in 1994.  Recently, Stacy co-chaired the 2009 ACR Doctoral Symposium with David Wooten and holds the facilitation of doctoral student success in research as one of her primary goals in serving on the board.

Rebecca Ratner

Rebecca Ratner is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Her current research explores factors underlying suboptimal consumer decision making and focuses on affective forecasting, consumer memory, variety seeking, and the role of social norms in decision making. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. She currently serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Economic Psychology and is an Associate Editor of Journal of Consumer Research. Rebecca received her PhD in social psychology from Princeton University.

Rebecca has been an active member of the Association for Consumer Research community since 1995, including taking on roles as presenter, discussant, special session organizer, program committee member, competitive paper reviewer, roundtables co-chair, associate editor for competitive paper sessions, Doctoral Symposium faculty participant, and co-chair of the ACR Doctoral Symposium.

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