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NICOLE ROBITAILLE
(November 2014)
Queen’s School of Business
Queen’s University
143 Union Street
Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6
Phone: 613.533.3135
Fax: 613.533.2755
[email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2014 – present
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University
EDUCATION
PhD
Marketing, 2014
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
MSc
Marketing, 2008
Concordia University, John Molson School of Business
BSc
Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience), 2006
Concordia University, Canada
Dissertation Title: “An Investigation of Consumers’ Moral Licensing Behavior” (Supervisory
Committee: Andrew Mitchell, Nina Mazar and Wil Cunningham)
RESEARCH
Research Interests
Consumer behavior, judgment and decision making with an emphasis on morality, public policy
and social marketing
Manuscripts under Review/Working Papers
Robitaille, Nicole, Nina Mazar and Andrew Mitchell, “Removing Individuals’ License to
Misbehave,” revising for resubmission (2nd Round) at Journal of Marketing Research
Mazar, Nina, Hilke Plassmann, Nicole Robitaille and Axel Lindner, “Pain of Paying – A
Metaphor Gone Literal: Evidence from Neurobiology and Behavioral Decision Making,”
Manuscript in preparation.
Robitaille, Nicole, and Nina Mazar, “Applying Behavioral Science in the Field: Nudging to
Increase Organ Donor Registrations,” Manuscript in preparation.
Tsai, Claire, Min Zhao and Nicole Robitaille, “How ‘Distance to End’ Influences Actual
versus Predicted Consumer Experiences: A Resource Allocation Account,” Manuscript in
preparation
Julian House, Nina Mazar and Nicole Robitaille “Implementation Intentions: How to Nudge
Organizations to Pay their Overdue Taxes,” Manuscript in preparation.
Wan, Jing, Nicole Robitaille, Spike Lee and Nina Mazar “Embodied Cognition and
Awareness,” [working title].
Robitaille, Nicole, Nina Mazar and Andrew Mitchell, “Expectations to Compensate,”
[working title].
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND PRESENTATIONS
Robitaille, Nicole and Nina Mazar (2014), “Removing Consumers’ License to Misbehave,”
paper presented at Association for Consumer Research, Baltimore, MD.
Mazar, Nina, Hilke Plassmann, Nicole Robitaille and Axel Lindner (2014), “The Origin of
the Pain of Paying: Evidence from fMRI and Behavioral Experiments,” paper presented at
Annual Meeting of the Society for NeuroEconomics, Miami, FL.
Mazar, Nina, Hilke Plassmann, Nicole Robitaille and Axel Lindner (2014), “The Origin of
the Pain of Paying: Evidence from fMRI and Behavioral Experiments,” paper presented at
Behavioral Decision Research in Management, London, UK.
Mazar, Nina, Hilke Plassmann, Nicole Robitaille and Axel Lindner (2012), “The Origin of
the Pain of Paying,” paper presented at Society for Judgment and Decision Making,
Minneapolis, MN.
Mazar, Nina, Hilke Plassmann, Nicole Robitaille and Axel Lindner (2012), “The Origin of
the Pain of Paying,” paper presented at Society for Consumer Psychology, Florence, Italy.
Robitaille, Nicole and Nina Mazar (2012), “Removing Consumers’ License to Misbehave,”
paper presented at Society for Consumer Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Robitaille, Nicole and Nina Mazar (2012), “Removing Consumers’ License to Misbehave,”
paper presented at 5th Annual Symposium on Consumer Behavior, London, ON.
Robitaille, Nicole and Nina Mazar (2011), “Removing Consumers’ License to Misbehave,”
paper presented at Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA.
Nina Mazar, Hilke Plassmann, Nicole Robitaille, and Axel Linder (2011),"The Origin of the
Pain of Paying," paper presented at Association for Consumer Research, St. Louis, MO.
Robitaille, Nicole, Bianca Grohmann, Rong Zhou and Michael VonGrunau (2009), “The
Effects of Product Display Organization on Consumers’ Visual Attention to Attributes,”
poster presented at Society of Consumer Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Penhune, Virginia, Clarisse Longo dos Santos and Nicole Robitaille (2006), “Consolidation
of Implicit and Explicit Learning in a Biconditional Grammar Task,” poster presented at
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
INVITED TALKS
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SUNY Stony Brook (2013)
Queen’s University (2013)
Concordia University (2013)
Iowa State University (2013)
BE Works Consulting (2013)
University Tübingen (2010)
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
D.I. McLeod Research Assistantship, Queen’s University, 2014-2015
Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship Research Grant, University of Toronto, 2014
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2013-2014
AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow, University of Washington, 2012
Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship Research Grant, University of Toronto, 2011
Research Travel Grant, University of Toronto, 2010, 2011
Conference Grant, University of Toronto, 2011
fMRI Decision Neuroscience Workshop Fellow, University of Michigan, 2009
Doctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2008-2013
INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT
2013 – present
Research Analyst, Treasury Board Secretariat, Government of Ontario
TEACHING
Instructor
Introduction to Marketing (Winter 2015)
Guest Lecturer
Principles of Marketing (Consumer Behavior, Winter 2011)
Teaching Certificates
“Case Teaching” (Spring 2013)
2-day case teaching workshop with James A. Erskine (University of Toronto)
“Teaching Business in Colleges and Universities” (Spring 2012)
10-week teaching course (University of Toronto)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association for Consumer Research (ACR)
Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Trainee Reviewer for the Journal of Consumer Research
Ad- Hoc Reviewer for the Association of Consumer Research Conference
Ad- Hoc Reviewer for Society of Consumer Psychology Conference
Ad- Hoc Reviewer for the Association of Consumer Research Asia-Pacific Conference
Ad- Hoc Reviewer for the Association of Consumer Research European Conference
LANGUAGES
English, French