CPR Announces New Editorial Leadership

The Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathleen Vohs and Ryan Hamilton as the new Editors of Consumer Psychology Review (CPR), effective Jan 1, 2026.

Consumer Psychology Review is an annual journal of SCP, committed to publishing systematic, integrative, and thought-provoking reviews that highlight foundational and emerging ideas within the field of consumer psychology. All articles in CPR are invited by the editors, in consultation with the Scientific Advisory Committee.

Under their leadership, CPR will continue to serve as a vital resource for consumer psychologists, amplifying current research, and highlighting critical theoretical developments that shape the discipline. Please join us in welcoming the new editorial team.

Kathleen Vohs

Kathleen Vohs is the Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Land O’Lakes Chair in Marketing at University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. She has authored more than 300 scholarly publications and served as the editor of 9 books. She currently acts as the Research Dialogue associate editor for Journal of Consumer Psychology, and has served as area editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and consulting editor at Science. She has written extensively on self-control, the psychology of money, interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, meaning in life, and sex. 

She was named a ‘Best Business School Professors Under 40’ and as one of the world’s Top 25 Behavioral Economists by thebestschools.org. In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2024 she was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuter’s ISI Web of Science, a distinction given to the top 1% of scholars worldwide based on citations. Vohs has been voted Faculty of the Year by the graduating class of MBA students multiple times, and her work has made a difference in how Elizabeth Warren, Mark Zuckerberg, and President Obama organize their personal and professional lives. She has given hundreds of talks to diverse groups such as the Federal Reserve of New York in 2023 and the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD) in 2025.

Ryan Hamilton

Ryan Hamilton is Associate Professor of Marketing at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. He received his PhD in Marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher, whose research on price image, branding, and decision making has been published in journals including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of the Association of Consumer Research and covered in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.

Professor Hamilton is the co-author of a forthcoming book called The Growth Dilemma: Managing Your Brand When Different Customers Want Different Things (Harvard Business Review Press). For the last eight years, he has co-hosted a podcast called The Intuitive Customer, which apply the insights from consumer psychology to effectively managing customer experiences. He has also produced two lecture series for The Great Courses, a company that produces educational and entertaining college-level lectures by professors selected “exclusively for their ability to teach.” 

Professor Hamilton has an eclectic background that includes both an undergraduate degree in physics and time spent performing stand-up comedy. He is the proud father of five children, which means he spends much of his time exhausted and slightly rumpled. In his spare time he is a woodworker. He has never run a marathon and has no intention of ever doing so.