2023 JCR Awards Announcements

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BEST ARTICLE AWARD All articles published in 2020 were considered for this award. The Policy Board selects the winner based on nominations provided by JCR ’s Associate Editors and Editorial Review Board. The winners of this year’s Best Article Award are Shiri Melumad and Michel Tuan Pham for their article “The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology,” which appeared in the August 2020 issue. Melumad is an assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include the consumer psychology of technology usage, new media and user-generated content, and digital marketing. Pham is Kravis Professor of Business and Research Director at the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School. His research expertise covers the areas of marketing strategy and management, branding, customer and consumer psychology, trademark psychology, marketing communication, and executive decision-making. The other finalists for the Best Article Award were Emily N. Garbinsky, Joe J. Gladstone, Hristina Nikolova, and Jenny G. Olson for their article “Love, Lies, and Money: Financial Infidelity in Romantic Relationships,” which appeared in the June 2020 issue, and Dafna Goor, Nailya Ordabayeva, Anat Keinan, and Sandrine Crener for their article “The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption,” which appeared in the April 2020 issue.