James J. Kellaris holds the James S. Womack / Gemini Chair of Signage and Visual Marketing, endowed by Jim and Sharon Weinel. He is known widely as both a music scholar and business ethicist. His music research concerns the affective, cognitive, and behavioral influences of music on consumers, including effects of music in advertisements and retail environments, the hedonic consumption of music as an aesthetic product, the influence of music on time perception, and the "earworm" phenomenon. His ethics research examines contextual influences and judgmental biases in ethical decision making, and cross-cultural differences. Consistent with the mission of the chair he occupies, Dr. Kellaris has recently begun to conduct research in the emerging area of signage as marketing communication. Dr. Kellaris' work has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Psychology Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, Marketing Letters, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, and widely cited in the popular press. Dr. Kellaris is a member of the American Marketing Association, Association for Consumer Research, Society for Consumer Psychology, and other professional organizations. He has served on the editorial boards of three academic journals. Dr. Kellaris has won a UC Faculty Achievement Award, the EXCEL Teaching Award, the Dornoff award, and AMA Outstanding Reviewer and Best Paper awards. He has conducted seminars and colloquia for G.E., Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Ohio Valley Life Center, Ssang Business Group, I.M.C.A., École Superièur de Commerce (Toulouse, France), ESCEM (Tours, France), Bond University (Queensland, Australia), HEC (Montreal, Canada), and many other colleges and universities.

• “Music and Time Perception: When Does a Song Make It Seem Long?” with Vijaykumar Krishnan and Steve Oakes.

• SELECTED MUSIC RESEARCH – Mantel, Susan Powell, and James J. Kellaris (2003), “Exploring Determinants of Psychological Time: The Impact of Cognitive Resources Required and Available on the Estimation of Lapsed Time,” Journal of Consumer Research, 29 (4), 531-538.
• Kellaris, James J., and Robert J. Kent (1993), “An Exploratory Investigation of Responses Elicited by Music Varying in Tempo, Tonality, and Texture,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2, 4, 381-401.
• Kellaris, James J., Anthony D. Cox, and Dena Cox (1993), “The Effect of Music on Ad Processing: A Contingency Explanation,” Journal of Marketing, 57, 4 (October), 114-125.
• Kellaris, James J., and Ronald C. Rice (1993), “The Influence of Tempo, Loudness, and Gender of Listener on Responses to Music,” Psychology & Marketing, 10, 1 (January/February), 15-29.
• Kellaris, James J., and Robert J. Kent (1992a), “The Influence of Music on Consumers' Temporal Perceptions: Does Time Fly When You're Having Fun?” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 1, 4, 365-376.
• Kellaris, James J., and Anthony D. Cox (1989), “The Effects of Background Music in Advertising: A Reassessment,” Journal of Consumer Research, 16, 1 (June), 113-118. Reprinted in Joël Bree, ed., Comportement du Consommateur: Presentation de Textes Choisis, published by Economica (Caen, France).
• For research on the EARWORM phenomenon, please visit: www.EarwormsResearch.org
• SELECTED ETHICS RESEARCH – Sivadas, Eugene, Susan B. Kleiser, James Kellaris, and Robert Dahlstrom (2003), “Moral Philosophy, Ethical Evaluations, and Sales Manager Hiring Intentions,” Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 23 (1), 7-21.
• Kleiser, Susan B., Eugene Sivadas, James J. Kellaris, and Robert F. Dahlstrom (2003), “Ethical Ideologies: Efficient Assessment and Influence on Ethical Judgments of Marketing Practices,” Psychology & Marketing, 20 (1), 1-21.
• Boyle, Brett A., Robert F. Dahlstrom, and James J. Kellaris (1998), “Points of Reference and Individual Differences As Sources of Bias in Ethical Judgments,” Journal of Business Ethics, 17, 5, 517-525.
• Kellaris, James J., Robert F. Dahlstrom, and Brett A. Boyle (1996), “Contextual Bias in Ethical Judgment in Marketing,” Psychology & Marketing, 13, 7, 677-694.
• Kellaris, James J., Brett A. Boyle, and Robert F. Dahlstrom (1994), “Framing and Situational Ethics,” Marketing Letters, 5, 1, 69-75.
• Dabholkar, Pratibha A., and James J. Kellaris (1992), “Toward Understanding Marketing Students' Ethical Judgment of Controversial Personal Selling Practices,” Journal of Business Research, 24, 4 (June), 313-329.
• Jung, Jae Min and James J. Kellaris (2002), “Scale for a New Millennium: A Psychometric Measure of Ethical Judgment Using the Dalai Lama's Universal Criteria,” in Lindgren, John H. Jr. and William J. Kehoe, eds., Toward Tomorrow: Domestic, Global, Virtual Marketing, San Diego, CA: American Marketing

• American Marketing Association
• Society for Consumer Psychology
• Association for Consumer Research
• Christian Business Faculty Association

• Best paper award - AMA 2002
• EXCEL Teaching Award
• Ronald J. Dornoff Fellow of Teaching Excellence
• UC Faculty Achievement Award

• AB, MSci, PhD - Georgia State University