Todd Eavis, PhD

Todd Eavis received his PhD in 2003 from Dalhousie University in Halifax and was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University in Ottawa.  He joined the faculty of Concordia University in 2004, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. His general research focus is the design of programming languages and software development environments.

Invited Research Talks and Workshops

The Habit Summit (April 2017, San Francisco)

Stanford University (Graduate School of Business, April 2017)

UNLV (School of Life Sciences, February 2017)

Logical LA (January 2017, Los Angeles)

UC-Irvine (Paul Merage School of Business, December 2016)

Chapman University (College of Educational Studies, December 2016)

Mexico’s Secretariat of Tourism (Guadalajara, Mexico; April 26, 2016)

Chapman University (Psychology Department; February 2016)

Institutefor Liberal Studies (Ottawa, January 2016)

La Ciudad de las Ideas (Mexico, November 2015)

Lakeside Academy (March 2015; part of Passages Canada program)

Binghamton University (EvoS Speaker Series) (September 2014)

Wellesley College (Freedom Project) (April 2014)

SAP Software Solutions (senior executives; cancelled) (April 2014)

National Integrative Research Conference, hosted by McGill University, keynote address (March 2014)

Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology Pre Conference, invited speaker (February 2014)

University of Alabama (ALLELE Lecture Series) (November 2013)

30^th annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, keynote address, Texas Tech University (October 2013)

2^nd Ringberg Symposium on evolution and economics, Max Planck Society (September2013)

Ancestral Health Symposium, plenary lecture (August 2013)

ANFO (service and interest organization for Norwegian advertisers) (May 2013)

7^th Johan Arndt Conference (Oslo, Norway), keynote address (May 2013)

TEDxDawson (May 2013)

9^th annual Southern Ontario Behavioral Decision Research, hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University, keynote address (May 2013)

Northwestern University (Kellogg) (April 2013)

Saint-Mary’s University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), keynote address at the 28^th annual psychology student conference (April 2013)

Texas A&M University, Business School (February 2013)^

University of Texas at Austin, Business School (February 2013)^

Texas Tech University, Political Science Department (February 2013)

Arizona State University, Business School (January 2013)

Arizona State University, Psychology Department (January 2013)

University of the Streets Café, Concordia University (December 2012)

McGill University (advanced biology course “Evolution & Society”) (Nov. 2012)

Hampden-Sydney College, Political Economy Lecture Series (April 2012)

Cornell University (Johnson Graduate School of Management) (April 2012)

Wilfrid Laurier University (doctoral seminar in consumer behavior) [via Skype] (March2012)

McGill University (advanced biology course “Evolution & Society”) (Nov. 2011)

Chapman University (Economic Science Institute) (September 2011)

Clarkson University (Arts and Science Public Lecture) (April 2011)

TEDxConcordia (February 2011)

McGill University (doctoral seminar in decision neuroscience) (June 2010)

University of Guelph (Philosophy Department) (March 2009)

Concordia University (Science College Public Lecture): Introductory remarks prior to Dr. David Sloan Wilson’s talk (March 2009)

University of Michigan (Ross School of Business) (April 2008)

University of Michigan (Decision Consortium Seminar; Psychology Department) (April 2008)

Bishop’s University (Provigo Lecture; endowed speaker series) (March 2008)

University of Arizona (lecture on my 2007 book) (February 2008)

University of Arizona (lecture on my experiences as an iconoclastic interdisciplinarian)(February 2008)

University of Arizona (lecture on the use of bibliometric indices) [All three talks hosted by the Norton School] (February 2008)

Concordia University (Back-to-School Faculty Showcase: Alumni event) (January 2008)

Central Michigan University (Industrial and Organizational Psychology Association)(April 2007)

Indiana University (Cognitive Science Colloquium Series) (April 2007)

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (School of Informatics) (April 2007)

McGill University (doctoral seminar in automatic processes in consumer behavior) (September 2006)

University of New Mexico (Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences) (September 2006)

SUNY-Binghamton (Evolutionary Studies Program) (November 2005)

University of Houston (Bauer School of Business) (February 2004)

Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) (May 2003)

University of California-Los Angeles (Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture) (May2003)

University of California-Santa Barbara (Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology Area)(March 2003)

University of Southern California (Marshall School of Business) (Summer 2002)

University of California-Irvine (Graduate School of Management) (March 2002)

Max Planck Institute for Human Development (institute-wide talk; Berlin) (June 2001)

Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Group (at the Max Planck Institute) (June 2001)

Cornell University (Statler School) (May 2001)

Australian Graduate School of Management (Spring 2001)

Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand) (Spring 2001)

INSEAD *(Fontainebleau, France) (Summer 1999)

Central Washington University (May 1998)

HEC-Montreal (April 1998)

Cornell University * (Spring 1998)

McGill University (Faculty of Management) (April 1997)

University of Colorado * (Spring 1997)

University of Rochester (Fall 1993)

ESSEC (Cergy-Pontoise, France) (Fall 1993)

INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) (Fall 1993)

Harvard University (Fall 1993)

Concordia University (Fall 1993)

^ Both talks were cancelled due to poor weather that I faced while traveling to the venues. I was stuck in Lubbock, Texas for several days due to snowfall. 

* Refers to joint work presented by aco-author; in each of the latter three cases, it was the same co-author, namely Prof. Douglas M. Stayman.

 

Refereed Journal Articles

Saad, G. (forthcoming). On the method of evolutionary psychology and its applicability to consumer research. Journal of Marketing Research. http://journals.ama.org/doi/abs/10.1509/jmr.14.0645

Nepomuceno, M., Saad, G., Stenstrom, E., Mendenhall, Z., & Iglesias, F.  (2016). Testosterone & gift giving: Mating confidence moderates the association between digit ratios (2D4D and rel2) and erotic gift giving. Personality and Individual Differences, 91, 27–30.

Nepomuceno, M., Saad, G., Stenstrom, E., Mendenhall, Z., & Iglesias, F.  (2016). Testosterone at your fingertips: Digit ratios (2D:4D and rel2) as predictors of courtship-related consumption intended to acquire and retain mates.  Journal of Consumer Psychology, 26, 231–244.

Saad, G., Cleveland, M., & Ho, L. (2015). Individualism-collectivism and the quantity versus quality dimensions of individual and group creative performance. Journal of Business Research, 68, 578–586.

Saad, G. Convergent validity between metrics of journal prestige: Theeigenfactor, article influence, and h-index scores.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.  (conditionally accepted)

Saad, G., & Greengross, G. (2014). Using evolutionary psychology to enhance the brain imaging paradigm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:452. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00452

Saad, G., & Gill, T. (2014). The framing effect when evaluating prospective mates: An adaptationist perspective.  Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 184–192. 

Saad, G. (2013).  The consuming instinct: What Darwinian consumption reveals about human nature. Politics and the Life Sciences, 32 (1), 58–72.

Saad, G. (2013). Evolutionary consumption. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23, 351–371.

Kenrick, D., Saad, G., & Griskevicius, V. (2013). Evolutionary consumer psychology: Ask not what you can do for biology, but… Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23, 404–409.

Saad, G. (2012). Nothing in popular culture makes sense except in the light of evolution. Review of General Psychology, 16, 109–120. 

Saad, G., & Stenstrom, E.  (2012). Calories, beauty, and ovulation: The effects of the menstrual cycle on food and appearance-related consumption. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 22, 102–113.

Stenstrom, E., & Saad, G. (2011). Testosterone, financial risk-taking, and pathological gambling.  Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 4, 254–266.

Boyle, P. J., & Saad, G. (2011).  Product expertise: A moderator of information search in sequential choice.  The Marketing Management Journal, 21, 84–96.

Garcia, J. R., Geher, G., Crosier, B., Saad, G., Gambacorta, D., Johnsen, L., & Pranckitas, E. (2011).  The interdisciplinarity of evolutionary approaches to human behavior: A key to survival in the ivory archipelago.  Futures, 43, 749–761.

Saad, G. (2011).  Futures of evolutionary psychology.  Futures, 43, 725–728.

Stenstrom E., Saad, G., Nepomuceno, M., & Mendenhall, Z. Testosterone and domain-specific risk: Digit ratios (2D:4D and rel2) as predictors of recreational, financial, and social risk-taking behaviors (2011). Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 412–416.

Saad, G. (2010). Munchausen by proxy: The dark side of parental investment theory? Medical Hypotheses, 75, 479–481.

Saad, G. (2010).  Applying the h-index in exploring bibliometric properties of elite marketing scholars. Scientometrics, 83, 423–433.

Saad, G., & Vongas, J. G. (2009). The effect of conspicuous consumption on men’s testosterone levels. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 110, 80–92.

Saad, G., & Gill, T. (2009). Self-ratings of physical attractiveness in a competitive context: When males are more sensitive to self-perceptions than females.  Journal of Social Psychology, 149, 585–599.

Saad, G., Eba, A., & Sejean, R. (2009). Sex differences when searching for a mate: A process-tracing approach. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 22, 171–190.

Saad, G. (2009).  Revisiting Thorstein Veblen’s “Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science.” Evolutionary Psychology, 7 (1), 1–5. [Book review of Michael Shermer, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.]

Garcia, J., & Saad, G. (2008). Evolutionary neuromarketing: Darwinizing the neuroimaging paradigm for consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 7, 397–414.

Saad, G. (2008). The collective amnesia of marketing scholars regarding consumers’ biological and evolutionary roots. Marketing Theory, 8, 425–448.

Saad, G. (2008). Advertised waist-to-hip ratios of online female escorts: An evolutionary perspective. International Journal of e-Collaboration, 4 (3), 40–50.

Kock, N., Hantula, D. A., Hayne, S., Saad, G., Todd, P. M., & Watson, R. T. (2008). Darwinian perspectives on electronic communication [introductory article to the special issue of the same name]. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 51 (2), 133–146. [Authors other than lead author are listed in alphabetical order] 

Stenstrom, E., Stenstrom, P., Saad, G., & Cheikhrouhou, S. (2008). Online hunting and gathering: An evolutionary perspective on sex differences in website preferences and navigation. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 51 (2), 155–168.

Saad, G. (2007). A multitude of environments for a consilient Darwinian meta-theory of personality: The environment of evolutionary adaptedness, local niches, the ontogenetic environment, and situational contexts. European Journal of Personality, 21, 624–626.  [commentary]

Saad, G. (2007). Suicide triggers as sex-specific threats in domains of evolutionary import: Negative correlation between global male-to-female suicide ratios and average per capita gross national income. Medical Hypotheses, 68, 692–696.

Saad, G. (2006). Universal sex-specific instantiations of OCD. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 629. [commentary]

Saad, G. (2006). Blame our evolved gustatory preferences. Young Consumers, 7 (4), 72–75. [invited article: special issue titled Responsible Food Marketing to Children].

Saad, G. (2006). Sex differences in OCD symptomatology: An evolutionary perspective. Medical Hypotheses, 67, 1455–1459.

Saad, G. (2006). Exploring the h-index at the author and journal levels using bibliometric data of productive consumer scholars and business-related journals respectively. Scientometrics, 69 (1), 117–120.

Saad, G. & Peng, A. (2006). Applying Darwinian principles in designing effective intervention strategies: The case of sun tanning. Psychology & Marketing, 23, 617–638.

Saad, G. (2006). Applying evolutionary psychology in understanding the Darwinian roots of consumption phenomena. Managerial and Decision Economics, 27, 189–201. 

Saad, G., Gill, T., & Nataraajan, R. (2005). Are laterborns more innovative and non-conforming consumers than firstborns? A Darwinian perspective. Journal of Business Research, 58, 902–909.

Saad, G. (2004). Applying evolutionary psychology in understanding the representation of women in advertisements.  Psychology & Marketing, 21, 593–612.

Saad, G., & Gill, T. (2003). An evolutionary psychology perspective on gift giving among young adults. Psychology & Marketing, 20, 765–784.

Saad, G., & Gill, T. (2001). Sex differences in the ultimatum game: An evolutionary psychology perspective. Journal of Bioeconomics, 3, 171–193.

Saad, G., & Gill, T. (2001). Gender differences when choosing between salary allocation options. Applied Economics Letters, 8, 531–533.

Saad, G., & Gill, T. (2001). The effects of a recipient’s gender in the modified dictator game. Applied Economics Letters, 8, 463–466.

Saad, G., & Gill, T. (2000). Applications of evolutionary psychology in marketing.  Psychology & Marketing, 17, 1005–1034. [Lead Article]

Boyle, P., & Saad, G. (2000). Sequential decision-making strategies of expert and novice consumers. Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, 4 (2), 83-88.  A slightly different version was published in the Online Proceedings of the Allied Academies International Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1999, 32–36.

Laroche, M., Saad, G., Cleveland, M., & Browne, E. (2000). Gender differences in information search strategies for a Christmas gift.   Journal of Consumer Marketing, 17, 500–524.

Laroche, M., Saad, G., Kim, C. & Browne, E.  (2000). A cross-cultural study of in-store information search strategies for a Christmas gift.  Journal of Business Research, 49, 113–126.

Laroche, M., Saad, G., Browne, E., Cleveland, M., & Kim, C. (2000). Determinants of in-store information search strategies pertaining to a Christmas gift purchase. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 17, 1–19.

Saad, G. (1998). The experimenter module of the DSMAC (Dynamic Sequential Multiattribute Choice) interface. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30, 250–254.

Saad, G. (1996). SMAC: An interface for investigating Sequential Multiattribute Choices. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 28, 259–264.

Saad, G. & Russo, J. E. (1996). Stopping criteria in sequential choice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 67, 258–270.

Books

Saad, G. (2011). The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. [Translated to Korean and Turkish]

Saad, G. (Ed.) (2011). Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences. Springer: Heidelberg, Germany.

Saad, G. (Ed.) (2011). Futures of Evolutionary Psychology (Special Issue). Futures, 43, 725–920.

Saad, G. (2007). The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Book Chapters

Saad, G., (2015). Evolutionary consumer psychology. In David M. Buss (Ed.), Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (2nd edition, pp. 1143-1160). New York: Wiley.

Saad, G. (2014). The evolutionary instincts of Homo consumericus. In Stephanie Preston, Morten Kringelbach, and Brian Knutson (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption (pp. 59-76), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Saad, G. (2014). Evolutionary consumption. In Andrew M. Farrell and Nick Lee (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopaedia of Management – Marketing (Volume 9, pp. 184-189).  New York: Wiley. 

Saad, G. (2014). Behavioral decision theory. In Andrew M. Farrell and Nick Lee (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopaedia of Management – Marketing (Volume 9, pp. 33-35).  New York: Wiley.

Saad, G. (2014). Neuromarketing. In Andrew M. Farrell and Nick Lee (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopaedia of Management – Marketing (Volume 9, pp. 371-373).  New York: Wiley.

Saad, G. (2014). Conspicuous consumption. In Andrew M. Farrell and Nick Lee (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopaedia of Management – Marketing (Volume 9, 87-89).  New York: Wiley.

Saad, G. (2011). Discovering Homo consumericus. In X.T. Wang and Yan-jie Su (Eds.), Thus Spake Evolutionary Psychologists (pp. 303–310).  Beijing, China: Peking University Press.

Saad, G. (2011).  The missing link: The biological roots of the business sciences. In G. Saad (Ed.), Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences (pp. 1–16).  Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.

Saad, G. (2011).  Song lyrics as windows to our evolved human nature. In Alice Andrews and Joseph Carroll (Eds.), The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture (Volume 2, pp. 127–133).  Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Saad, G. (2010). The Darwinian underpinnings of consumption. In Pauline Maclaran, Michael Saren, Barbara Stern, & Mark Tadajewski (Eds.), The Handbook of Marketing Theory (pp. 457–475).  London: Sage.

Gill, T., & Saad, G. (2010). Consumer behavior in the realm of technology. In Hossein Bigdoli (Ed.), The Handbook of Technology Management (Volume 2, pp. 277–289), New York: Wiley.

Mendenhall, Z., Saad, G., & Nepomuceno (2010). Homo Virtualensis: Evolutionary psychology as a tool for studying videogames. In Ned Kock (ed.), Evolutionary Psychology and Information Systems Research: A New Approach to Studying the Effects of Modern Technologies on Human Behavior (pp. 305–328). Heidelberg: Springer.

Saad, G. (2010). Using the Internet to study human universals. In In Lee (Ed.), Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy (pp. 719–724), Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Stenstrom, E., & Saad, G. (2010). The neurocognitive and evolutionary bases of sex differences in website design preferences: Recommendations for e-business managers. In In Lee (Ed.), Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy (pp. 725–733). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Mendenhall, Z., Nepomuceno, M., & Saad, G. (2010). Exploring video games from an evolutionary psychological perspective. In In Lee (Ed.), Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy (pp. 734–742). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Durante, K. M., & Saad, G. (2010). Strategic shifts in women’s social motives and behaviors across the menstrual cycle: Implications in corporate settings. In Angela Stanton, Mellani Day, & Isabell Welpe (Eds.), Neuroeconomics and the Firm (pp. 116–130), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Saad, G.  (2003). Evolution and political marketing. In S. A. Peterson and A. Somit (Eds.), Human Nature and Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach (pp. 121–138).  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Saad, G. (1997). Pros and cons of setting-up a virtual laboratory on the Internet using the DSMAC process-tracing interface, Multimedia Technology and Applications, Vincent W. S. Chow (Ed.), Singapore: Springer-Verlag, p. 550–557.