2014 JCR Awards Announcements

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Best Article Award The Policy Board of the Journal of Consumer Research is pleased to announce the winners of the Best Article Award for 2014. The Policy Board selected the winners of the Best Article Award based on nominations provided by the JCR Editorial Review Board members and their assessment of the articles appearing in 2011. The 2014 Winner of the Best Article Award is “Getting Ahead of the Joneses: When Equality Increases Conspicuous Consumption among Bottom-Tier Consumers” by Nailya Ordabayeva and Pierre Chandon, which appeared in the June 2011 issue. Ordabayeva is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Boston College. Chandon is the L'Oréal Chaired Professor of Marketing, Innovation, and Creativity at INSEAD in France and Director of the Sorbonne INSEAD Behavioural Lab. Robert Ferber Award 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 from the most recent volume based on a doctoral dissertation. The Ferber Award Judges selected the winner based on nominations provided by the JCR Editorial Review Board. The 2014 Ferber Award Judges were Durairaj Maheswaran from New York University, Nathan Novemsky from Yale University, and Cele Otnes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.