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Amin Shiri

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing

Office Hours

By appointment

Education

  • Ph.D., Marketing, Texas A&M University, 2026
  • M.S., Consumer Behavior, University of Florida, 2021

Research Interests

  • Uncertainty
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Cognitive Biases and Heuristics
  • AI Delegation

Publications

Working Papers

  • Shiri, Amin, Felipe Affonso, and Chris Janiszewski “Synthetic Uncertainty”
  • Shiri, Amin, Keith Wilcox, and Xiang Wang, “The Cost of Certainty: How Needing to Know Makes You Wrong”
  • Shiri, Amin and Chuck Howard, “Metacognitive Uncertainty”
  • Shiri, Amin and Keith Wilcox, “Disconfirming but Convincing”
  • Shiri, Amin, Rory Waisman, and Gerald Häubl, “Mind Over Body in Games of Chance”
  • Shiri, Amin and Felipe Affonso, “Device Fatigue Heuristic”
  • Howard, Chuck, Amin Shiri, and Yusu Wang, “What’s Average?”

Journal Articles

  • Shiri, Amin, Felipe Affonso, and Keith Wilcox (2026), “When Consumers Prefer Point Versus Range Estimates of Product Performance,” Journal of Marketing Research, (forthcoming)
  • Wang, Xiang, Amin Shiri, and Chris Janiszewski (2026), “Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity: Preference Uncertainty Can Be Beneficial When Consumers Have Outcome Uncertainty,” Journal of Consumer Research, (forthcoming)
  • Rude, Eitan, Amin Shiri, Felipe Affonso, Hal Hershfield, and Craig Fox (2026), “Credibility of Point versus Range Predictions Varies with the Perceived Nature of Uncertainty,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, (forthcoming)
  • Affonso, Felipe, Amin Shiri, Diego Aparicio, Minzhe Xu, Xiang Wang, Chris Janiszewski, Marco Bertini (2025), “Concealing Prices: How Delayed Price Disclosure Influences Consumer Purchase Decisions,” Journal of Consumer Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaf051

Awards, Honors, and Recognition

  • American Marketing Association–Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2025
  • Top 1% Research Productivity Among Doctoral Candidates, American Marketing Association, 2025
  • Mays Business School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, 2025
  • Mays Business School Research Grant for Doctoral Research ($50,000), 2021-2026
  • Best Talk Award, Society for Consumer Psychology Conference, 2022
  • Warrington College of Business Research Grant for Graduate Studies ($16,000), 2021
  • Alberta Gambling Research Institute Research Grant ($10,000), 2019