The Evolutionnary Roots of Human Decision Making: Dr Gad Saad at TEDx Dawson College

Опубликовано: 27 июн. 2013 г. Gad Saad is Professor of Marketing at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and the holder of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of CaliforniaIrvine. Dr. Saad received the Faculty of Commerce s Distinguished Teaching Award in June 2000, and was listed as one of the hot professors of Concordia University in both the 2001 and 2002 Maclean s reports on Canadian universities. For more than 15 years now, his work has operated at the nexus of evolutionary psychology and consumer behavior. He is the author of The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (Prometheus Books, 2011), and The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007), and editor of Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences (Springer, 2011