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Associate Professor

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Email: HDeval@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-8997
Fax: 902-494-1107
Mailing Address: 
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Ave, Room 5104
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2

 
Research Topics:
  • Advertising
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Pricing

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Education

  • PhD, MBA (Cincinnati)
  • MM (Toulouse)

Current Teaching

  • Ìý Services Marketing
  • Ìý Consumer Behaviour
  • Ìý Consumer Behaviour

Research Interests

Dr. Deval’s research focuses on consumer behaviour, especially inference processes. In everyday judgments consumers rely on limited information, using a variety of inferential strategies to “fill in the gaps� left by incomplete information and insufficient knowledge. Her research includes the use of naïve theories as inference rules, sensitivity to missing information and social influence strategies.

Selected Awards and Honours

  • 2009ÌýÌýHonorable Mention, Society for Consumer Psychology Dissertation Proposal Competition
  • 2009ÌýÌýAMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow

Selected Publications

  • Naïve theories and about marketing and consumption in consumer inference. Deval, H., M.L. Cronley, S.P. Mantel & F.R. Kardes. In C. V. Jansson-Boyd & M. Zawisza, M. (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology (429-446). Abingdon, UK: RoutledgeÌý (2017)
  • The effect of construal level on sensitivity to missing information. Pfeiffer, B.E., H. Deval, D.R. Ewing, X. Han, M.L. Cronley & F.R. Kardes, Psychology and Marketing, 31(11), 992-1007Ìý (2014)
  • No product is perfect: The positive influence of acknowledging the negative. Pfeiffer, B.E., H. Deval, F.R. Kardes, E.R. Hirt, S.C. Karpen & B.M. Fennis, Thinking & Reasoning, 20(4), 500-512Ìý (2014)
  • How naïve theories drive opposing inferences from the same information.Ìý Deval, H., S.S. Posavac, S.P. Mantel, & F.R. Kardes, Journal of Consumer Research, 39 (April), 1185-201 (2013)
  • Discriminating Between naturally-occurring versus measurement-induced judgment processes in persuasion and choice. Cronley,ÌýM.L., F.R. Kardes,ÌýS.P. Mantel,Ìý& H. Deval. In S.S. Posavac (Ed.), Cracking the Code: How Managers Can Drive Profits by Leveraging Principles of Consumer Psychology. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Ìý(2011)