Awards Announcements

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Best Article Award The policy board of the Journal of Consumer Research is pleased to announce the winner of the Best Article Award for 2002. The winner is “An Experimental Investigation of the Joint Effects of Advertising and Peers on Adolescents' Beliefs and Intentions about Cigarette Smoking,” by Cornelia Pechmann and Susan J. Knight. The article appears in the June issue of volume 29. The policy board selected the winner of the Best Article Award based on nominations provided by the JCR editorial review board members and their assessment of the articles appearing in 2002. Cornelia (Connie) Pechmann is professor of marketing at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine, and Susan J. Knight is Corporate Relations Officer for the Institute for Software Research and the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California, Irvine. Robert Ferber Award It is a pleasure to announce the winner of the twenty-eighth annual Robert Ferber Award competition. The Robert Ferber Award competition is held annually in honor of one of the founders and the second editor of the Journal of Consumer Research . The award is given to the best article appearing in the Journal of Consumer Research (during the most recent year) based on a recent doctoral dissertation.