Professorship for Business Psychology, in Particular Methodology and Market Psychology

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

Prof. Dr. Gerd Meier represents market psychology and psychological methodology in research and teaching. The research fields of market psychology include topics of "Sensory Marketing", "Cute Marketing", personnel marketing and "Psychological Pricing". Methodology includes (online) experiments as well as quantitative and qualitative market research. In-house research, seminars, and students' theses address issues of advertising effectiveness, public relations strategies, explaining and predicting the behavior of sellers and buyers, and the perception and cognitive evaluation of different prices. In "sensory marketing", for example, the effects of packaging, organic or sustainability labels and brand names are studied, while in personnel marketing the effect of gender-appropriate language in job advertisements is investigated. Research questions in methodology are the effects of new research methods and the optimization of established research methods.

  1. 2017
  2. Published

    The Effects of Altruism and Social Background in an Online-Based, Pay-What-You-Want Situation

    Peschla, H., Süßmair, A. & Meier, G., 31.03.2017, In: American Journal of Industrial and Business Management. 7, 3, p. 245-269 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. 2013
  4. Published

    The impact of introductions in telephone surveys

    Meier, G., 01.08.2013, Telephone Surveys in Europe: Research and Practice. Häder, S., Häder, M. & Kühne, M. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p. 265-274 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  5. 2007
  6. Published

    Validierung eines Fragebogens zur Erfassung der Anzahl von Telefonnummern

    Meier, G., 2007, Mobilfunktelefonie - eine Herausforderung für die Umfrageforschung. Gabler, S. & Häder, S. (eds.). Mannheim: GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 91-104 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  7. 2005
  8. Published

    Steigerung der Ausschöpfungsquote von Telefonumfragen durch geschickte Einleitungstexte

    Meier, G., 2005, In: ZUMA-Nachrichten. 29, 57, p. 37-55 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch