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Donald A. Hantula

Donald A. Hantula

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Associate Professor specializes in organizational behavior,and combines economic and evolutionary theories in studies of financial and consumer decision making, risk & uncertainty, escalation and persistence of commitment, occupational health & safety, consumer choice on the Internet, computer & technology applications, and behavior analysis in organizational settings. Dr. Hantula is Executive Editor of the Journal of Social Psychology.

Recent publications include: "Online shopping as foraging: The effects of increasing delays on purchase and patch residence." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication; "Are We Genetically Maladapted to Use E-Collaboration Technologies? (Emerging E-Collaboration Concepts and Applications); "The medium matters: Mining the long-promised merit of group interaction in creative idea generation tasks in a meta-analysis of the electronic group brainstorming literature. (Computers in Human Behavior);"Equivocality and escalation: A replication and preliminary analysis of frustration." (Journal of Applied Social Psychology).

Primary Interests:

  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Evolution and Genetics
  • Health Psychology
  • Internet and Virtual Psychology
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Motivation, Goal Setting
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Research Methods, Assessment

Journal Articles:

  • Brecher, E. G., & Hantula, D. A. (2005). Equivocality and escalation: A replication and preliminary analysis of frustration. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 2606-2619.
  • Davis, E. S., & Hantula, D. A. (2001). The effects of download delay on performance and end-user satisfaction in an Internet tutorial. Computers in Human Behavior, 17, 249-268.
  • DeNicolis-Bragger, J. L., Hantula, D. A., Bragger, D., Kirnan, J., & Kutcher, E. (2003). When Success Breeds Failure: History, Hysteresis, and Delayed Exit Decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 6-14.
  • DeRosa, D. M., Hantula, D. A., Kock, N. F., & D’Arcy, J. (2004). Trust and Leadership in Virtual Teamwork: A Media Naturalness Perspective. Human Resource Management, 43, 219-232.
  • DeRosa, D. M., Smith, C.L., & Hantula, D.A. (2007). The medium matters: Mining the long-promised merit of group interaction in creative idea generation tasks in a meta-analysis of the electronic group brainstorming literature. Computers in Human Behavior. 23, 1549-1581
  • DiClemente, D. & Hantula, D. A. (2003). Applied behavioral economics and consumer choice. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24, 589-602.
  • DiFonzo, N., Hantula, D. A., & Bordia, P. (1998). Microworlds for experimental research: Having your (control and collection) cake and realism too. Behavior Research, Methods, Instruments & Computers, 30, 278-286.
  • Hantula, D. A., & Bryant, K. M. (2005). Delay discounting determines delivery fees in an e-commerce simulation. Psychology & Marketing, 22, 153-161.
  • Rajala, A. K., & Hantula, D. A. (2000). Towards a behavioral ecology of consumption: Delay reduction effects on foraging in a simulated online mall. Managerial and Decision Economics, 21, 145-158.
  • Schoenfelder, T., & Hantula, D. A. (2003). A job with a future? Delay discounting, magnitude effects and domain independence of utility for career decisions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 62, 43-55.
  • Smith, C. & Hantula, D. A. (2003). Price discounting in online shopping: An extension of the foraging model. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24, 653-674.

Other Publications:

  • Hantula, D. A., DiClemente, D. F., & Rajala, A. K. (2001). Outside the box: The analysis of consumer behavior. In: L. Hayes, J. Austin, R. Houmanfar, & M. Clayton (Eds.), Organizational Change, (pp. 203-223), Reno, NV: Context Press.
  • Hantula, D. A., & Landman, D. (2006). Making sense of escalating commitment to a failing course of action. In D. Hantula (Ed.) Advances in Social & Organizational Psychology. (pp. 275-292). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Courses Taught:

Donald A. Hantula
Department of Psychology
Temple University, Weiss Hall
1701 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
United States of America

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