Sydney E. Scott
Olin Business School
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1156
St. Louis, MO 63130
Olin Business School
I’m an Associate Professor of Marketing at Washington University in St. Louis. I study consumer behavior, and I’m especially interested in morality and consumer decisions, health and wellness, and natural and sustainable products.
My research has been published in top journals like Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Psychological Science, and Nature Human Behaviour. My work has also been featured in popular press outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR.
I received my Ph.D. in Marketing and Psychology from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 2017.
Rozin, Paul, Richard Chen, Sydney E. Scott, and Corey Cusimano (2024), “Americans Believe in the Benevolence of Nature, and This Belief Is Not Lower in People Who Have Experienced Natural Disasters,” Judgment and Decision Making, 19 (e18), 1-16.
Scott, Sydney E. and Elanor F. Williams (2023), “In Goal Pursuit, I Think Flexibility Is the Best Choice for Me but Not for You”, Journal of Marketing Research, 60 (5), 1008-26.
Scott, Sydney E. and Justin F. Landy (2023), ““Good People Don’t Need Medication”: How Moral Character Beliefs Affect Medical Decision Making”, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 175, 104225.
Scott, Sydney E., Paul Rozin, and Deborah A. Small (2020), “Consumers Prefer “Natural” More for Preventatives Than for Curatives”, Journal of Consumer Research, 47, 454-71.
Scott, Sydney E. and Paul Rozin (2020), “Actually, Natural is Neutral”, Nature Human Behaviour, forthcoming.
Fernbach, Philip M., Nicholas Light, Sydney E. Scott, Yoel Inbar, and Paul Rozin (2019), “Extreme Opponents of Genetically Modified Foods Know the Least but Think They Know the Most,” Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 251-6.
Scott, Sydney E., Yoel Inbar, Christopher D. Wirz, Dominique Brossard, and Paul Rozin (2018), “An Overview of Attitudes toward Genetically Engineered Food,” Annual Review of Nutrition, 38, 459-79.
Scott, Sydney E. and Paul Rozin (2017), “Are Additives Unnatural? Generality and Mechanisms of Additivity Dominance.” Judgment and Decision Making, 12 (6), 572–83.
Scott, Sydney E., Yoel Inbar, and Paul Rozin (2016), “Evidence for Absolute Moral Opposition to Genetically Modified Food in the United States.” Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11 (3), 315-24.
Mcgraw, A. Peter, Derick F. Davis, Sydney E. Scott, and Philip E. Tetlock (2016), “The Price of Not Putting a Price on Love.” Judgment and Decision Making, 40 (11), 40-7.
Baron, Jonathan, Sydney Scott, Katrina Fincher, and S. Emlen Metz (2015), “Why Does the Cognitive Reflection Test (Sometimes) Predict Utilitarian Moral Judgment (and Other Things)?” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4 (3), 265-84.
Rozin, Paul, Sydney E. Scott, Hana F. Zickgraf, Flora Ahn, & Hong Jiang (2014), “Asymmetrical Social Mach Bands: Exaggeration of Social Identities on the More Esteemed Side of Group Borders.” Psychological Science, 25 (10), 1955-59.
Mellers, Barbara, Lyle Ungar, Jonathan Baron, Jaime Ramos, Burcu Gurcay, Katrina Fincher, Sydney E. Scott, Don Moore, Pavel Atanasov, Samuel A. Swift, Terry Murray, Eric Stone, and Philip E. Tetlock (2014), “Psychological Strategies for Winning Geopolitical Forecasting Tournaments.” Psychological Science, 25 (5), 1106-15.
Tetlock, Philip E., S. Emlen Metz, Sydney E. Scott, and Peter Suedfeld (2014), “Integrative Complexity Coding Raises Integratively Complex Issues.” Political Psychology, 35 (5), 625-34.
Rozin, Paul, Sydney Scott, Megan Dingley, Joanna K. Urbanek, Hong Jiang, and Mark Kaltenbach (2011), “Nudge to Nobesity I: Minor Changes in Accessibility Decrease Food Intake.” Judgment and Decision Making, 6 (4), 322-31.