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Melanie Brucks

Assistant Professor of Business
Marketing Division
Melanie Brucks
Areas of Expertise
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Consumer Behavior, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Marketing
Contact
Office: 923 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Curriculum Vitae

Melanie Brucks is interested in creativity and innovation. Her research focuses on the processes involved in generating and selecting innovative ideas and on the cognitive and behavioral consequences of technological innovations. Her findings help marketers better design ideation activities to maximize productivity and fuel innovation.

Before joining Columbia, Melanie Brucks received a PhD in Marketing from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Achievements
  • Press
  • Authored Works
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Journal Article
Brucks, Melanie. “ Kinesthetic Properties of Response Scales Yield Different Judgments.”
Journal of Consumer Research
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Brucks, Melanie. “Video Call Glitches Trigger Uncanniness and Harm Consequential Life Outcomes .”
Nature
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Brucks, Melanie and Olivier Toubia. “Prompt architecture induces methodological artifacts in large language models.”
PLOS One
(April 28, 2025).
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Journal Article
Brucks, Melanie, Angela Carey, Albrecht Kufner, Nicholas Holtzman, Fenne Deters, Mitja Back, M. Brent Donnellan, James Pennebaker, and Matthias Mehl. “Narcissism and the Use of Personal Pronouns: Revisited.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
vol. 109, (January 01, 2015): e1-e15.
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Journal Article
Sarkar, Sujata, Melanie Brucks, Shivali Justa, Judith Endres, David Fox, Xiaoqun Zhao, Fatima Alnaimat, Brian Whitaker, John Wheeler, Brian Jones, and Swaroopa Bommireddy. “Interleukin (IL)-17A, F and AF in Inflammation: A Study in Collagen-Induced Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis.”
Clinical & Experimental Immunology
vol. 177, (January 01, 2014): 652-661.
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  • Courses
  • Case Studies
Course
B8667: Foundations of Product Innovation
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Course
B9612: (PhD) Marketing, Decisions & Methods
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  • Awards
  • Grants
2026

AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing

Award Institution:
AMA

  • In the Media
  • Articles
In the Media

Cornell Study: Video Call Glitches Erode Trust, Fuel Bias in Decisions

WebProNews
In the Media

Poor Audio or Video on Calls? Patients May Trust You Less

Medscape
In the Media

Technical Problems During a Video Conference Can Make People Seem Less Likeable.

Tagesanzeiger
In the Media

Want a New Job? Be (Sort of) Annoying.

Vox
In the Media

Your Glitchy Video Calls May Make People Mistrust You

NPR
In the Media

Hybrid work ramps up as employers push in-office time over work from home

Yahoo! Finance
In the Media

The Biggest Problem with Remote Work

The Atlantic
In the Media

Virtual Meetings Hinder Creative Collaboration, Researchers Report

Futurity
Article

Video Call Glitches Can Cost You a Job — or Your Freedom

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Article

No Matter the Question, ChatGPT wants to be First: New Research Reveals ChatGPT's Puzzling Bias for ‘Option A’

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Article

Demystifying Ideation to Create What Customers Want

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Article

The Future of Work and Creativity

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  • Articles
  • CaseWorks
Case ID
220503

FlexIt (A and B)

How should fitness start-up FlexIt respond to the challenges of COVID-19 on the industry?

View Case on FlexIt (A and B)
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