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Darlene Walsh, PhD

Chair and Associate Professor, Marketing


Darlene Walsh, PhD
Office: S-MB 13.215  
John Molson Building,
1450 Guy
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 2945
Email: darlene.walsh@concordia.ca

Darlene Walsh is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. She received her Ph.D. in Management with a specialization in Marketing from the University of Toronto.


In her research, she investigates factors that influence and shape the consumer decision making process with an emphasis on choices and decisions that require self-control. For example, she is interested in how priming consumer goals and marketing cues, such as brands and logos, influence consumer goal pursuit. Her interest in this area of consumer behaviour stems from a desire to discover novel ways to facilitate self-control (i.e., help consumers to act in ways that promote better decisions with respect to, for example, eating, saving patterns and impulse control), which is important to both theory and practice in terms of ensuring consumer and societal well-being.


Dr. Walsh publishes her research in various marketing journals, such as the Journal of Consumer Psychology. She also routinely presents her research at international marketing conferences, including the Society for Consumer Psychology and the Association for Consumer Research. 

Education

Ph.D. in Management

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto


Honours B.Sc. with High Distinction in Psychology and Economics

University of Toronto

Research Interests

Consumer behaviour

Self-control

Goal pursuit

Priming

Branding


Selected Journal Articles

Kwon, O, Walsh, D., & Kim, H. (2018). The (dis)advantage of friendship on information search and satisfaction. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 36(3), 291-4.

Walsh, D., Mantonakis, A. & Joordens, S. (2015). Is “getting started” one way for people to overcome the depletion effect? Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 32 (1), 47-57.

Walsh, D. (2014). Attenuating depletion using goal priming. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 24 (4), 497-505.

Walsh, D. (2014). Can priming a healthy eating goal cause depleted consumers to prefer healthier snacks? Journal of Consumer Marketing, 31 (2), 126-32.

Joordens, S., Walsh, D., & Mantonakis, A. (2013). Intelligence as it relates to conscious and unconscious memory influences: A performance-based process-dissociation approach. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67 (3), 165-74.   


Funding

External Grants

Insight Grant (Individual Grant), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015-20)


Transformative Consumer Research (Individual Grant), Association for Consumer Research Grant (2011)

Internal Grants


CASA Grant to Assist M.Sc. Student Research (C. Darriet), John Molson School of Business, Concordia University (2018-19)

CASA Grant to Assist M.Sc. Student Research (C. Huang), John Molson School of Business, Concordia University (2018-19)

Seed Funding Program (Individual Grant), VP Office of Research, Concordia University (2014-17) 

Luc Beauregard Center of Excellent in Communications (Team Grant), Concordia University (2013) 

CASA General Research Funds (Individual Grant), John Molson School of Business, Concordia University (2013)

Seed Funding Program (Individual Grant), VP Office of Research, Concordia University (2011) 

Seed Funding Program (Team Grant), VP Office of Research, Concordia University (2011) 


Student Supervision

If you are looking for lab experience, or if you are interested in pursuing graduate studies, then you may be interested in working with Dr. Walsh as a Research Assistant. 

Interested students are encouraged to contact her via email (please include a brief statement of interest and current resume).


Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

Consumer Behaviour (Concordia University)

Marketing Communications (Concordia University)

Advertising (Concordia University)

Principles of Marketing (University of Toronto)

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