Adam

Farmer

Associate Dean of Undergraduate and International Programs

Associate Professor of Marketing

Biography

Adam Farmer, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate and International Programs at the Culverhouse College of Business, University of Alabama. He earned his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Kentucky and serves as an Associate Professor of Marketing. Adam has served as the Associate Department Chair in Marketing and as the Marketing PhD Program Coordinator at the University of Alabama. Additionally, he was the co-Director of the MILO biometric research lab at Mississippi State University. Adam was selected to participate in the Building and Growing Academic Leaders Series within the Culverhouse College of Business and the Leadership U program at the University of Alabama.

Adam’s research focuses on consumer behavior, specifically in the domains of donation behavior, sustainability, political ideology and morality, and retailing. He has published five articles in FT-50 journals, three of which are also UT-Dallas journals. Broadly, Adam’s research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and Journal of Business Research. Adam has also published in managerial outlets such as HBR.org and AMA.org. His work has also appeared at various conferences including the Association for Consumer Research, Society for Consumer Psychology, and Academy of Marketing Science and has been featured in numerous outlets including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Yahoo!, and AMA.org. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and Journal of Business Research, and is a reviewer for several top marketing journals.

Selected Publications

Waites, Stacie, Adam Farmer, Jonathan Hasford, and Roman Welden (2023) “Teach a Man to Fish: The Use of Autonomous Aid in Eliciting Donations,” Journal of Marketing Research, 60 (5).

Hasford, Jonathan, Blair Kidwell, David M Hardesty, and Adam Farmer (2022), “Your Cheatin’ Heart: How Emotional Intelligence and Selfishness Impact the Incidence of Consumer Fraud,” Journal of Consumer Research, 49 (1).

Farmer, Adam, Blair Kidwell, and David M. Hardesty (2021), “The Politics of Choice: Political Ideology and Intolerance of Ambiguity,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 31 (1).

Waites, Stacie F., Adam Farmer, and Carol L. Esmark Jones (2021), “Building Toward a Solid Foundation: The Effect of Thinking Concretely about the Future,” Journal of Consumer Affairs, 55 (1).

Farmer, Adam, Blair Kidwell, and David M. Hardesty (2020), “Helping a Few a Lot or Many a Little: Political Ideology and Charitable Giving,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30 (4).

Barney, Christian, Carol L. Esmark Jones, and Adam Farmer (2020), “Approacher Be-wear? Increasing Shopper Approach Intentions through Employee Apparel,” Journal of Business Research, 108.

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