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Anja Schanbacher

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Marketing

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Contact

Office Phone:

312.413.0446

About

Dr. Anja Schanbacher is Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing. She previously held positions as Assistant Professor of Marketing at Drury University and as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Duke University. Her research interests are in consumer behavior, financial decision-making, self and identity, and judgment and decision-making. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and has been featured by the Wall Street Journal. Anja holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Germany and a Ph.D. and M.Res. in Marketing from the London Business School.

Selected Publications

Schanbacher, A. D., Faro, D., & Botti, S. (2024), A Joint Account With my Future Self: Self‐Continuity Facilitates Adjustment of Present Spending to Future Income Changes. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 34(2), 264-280.

Schanbacher, Anja D., Nazli Gurdamar-Okutur, and David Faro (2021), “It’s no Longer “Me”: Low Past-Self-Continuity Reduces the Sunk-Cost Bias.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (95), 104-146.

Notable Honors

2023, Breech School of Business Faculty Scholarship Award, Drury University

2017, Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow, American Marketing Association

Education

PhD in Marketing, London Business School

MRes in Marketing, London Business School

Diplom (combined BS/MS degree) in Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich