Leonard Lee

Assistant Professor

Marketing

PhD (Marketing), MIT, 2006; MS (Computer Science), Stanford, 1998; BSc (Computer Science), National University of Singapore, 1996

Joined CBS in 2006

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Leonard Lee

Office
508 Uris

Phone
212-854-2177

E-mail
ll2399@columbia.edu

Fax
212-854-7647

Teaching and research interest

Professor Lee's research focuses on understanding how both emotional and cognitive factors influence consumers' judgment and decision making such as the consistency of their consumption choice and preferences over time. He is also interested in investigating how consumers shop in real world environments and how contextual and environmental factors affect their shopping process and behavior. Professor Lee teaches the Core Marketing Strategy course.

Honors and awards

  • 2007 Robert Ferber Award Honorable Mention
    Lee, Leonard and Dan Ariely (2006), "Shopping Goals, Goal Concreteness, and Conditional Promotions, Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 60-70

Courses taught

Journal articles

In Search of Homo Economicus: Preference Consistency, Emotions, and Cognition In Journal of Consumer Research (2009) Coauthor(s): Leonard Lee, On Amir, Dan Ariely

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If I'm Not Hot, Are You Hot or Not? Physical Attractiveness Evaluations and Dating Preferences as a Function of Own Attractiveness In Psychological Science (2008) Coauthor(s): Leonard Lee, George Loewenstein, Dan Ariely, James Hong, Jim Young

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Shopping Goals, Goal Concreteness, and Conditional Promotions In Journal of Consumer Research (2006) Coauthor(s): Leonard Lee, Dan Ariely

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Try It, You'll Like It: The Influence of Expectation, Consumption, and Revelation on Preferences for Beer In Psychological Science (2006) Coauthor(s): Leonard Lee, Shane Frederick, Dan Ariely

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Working Papers

Money Muddles Thinking: The Effect of Price on Preference Consistency In Working Paper (2008) Coauthor(s): Leonard Lee, Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Dan Ariely

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The Fees: Savings Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta In Working paper (2007) Coauthor(s): Leonard Lee, Michael I. Norton

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