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Alex Gunz

Doctoral Student
Marketing

College of Business

Office:
436 Cornell Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

Office Hours:
By Appointment Only

Phone: (573) 884-6416
E-Mail: gunza@missouri.edu

Alex's interests include intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, self determination theory, materialism, and psychological need satisfaction.

Educational Background


B.S., University of Toronto, 1999.
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 2004.

Publications


Refereed Journal Articles

"Extrinsic value orientation and affective forecasting:  Over-estimating the rewards, under-estimating the costs." with K.M. Sheldon, C.P. Nichols, and Y. Ferguson, Journal of Personality, forthcoming.

"Psychological Needs as Basic Motives, not just Experiential Requirements," with K.M. Sheldon, Journal of Personality, 77(5), 1467-1492, 2009.

"Comparing old and new measures of explicit and implicit power and intimacy motivation," with S.M. Sheldon, L.H. Houser-Marko, R. Osbaldiston, and L.A. King, European Journal of Personality, 21(3), 263-280, 2007.

"As seen by the other . . .:  The self from the'outside in' and the 'inside out' in the memories and emotional perceptions of Easterners and Westerners," with D. Cohen, Psychological Science, 13 (1), 55-59, 2002.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

"Making Self-Determination Theory Dynamic:  When Do Needs Push Behaviour?" Third International Conference on Self-Determination Theory, Toronto, Canada, 2007.

 

"Inside Out, or Outside In? Cultural Differences in How the Self is Perceived," American Psychological Society Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2001.

Book Chapter

"Social Psychology," with D.G. Myers, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, W.A. Darity, editor, Thomson Gale, pp. 608-611, 2008.