Katherine White

BA (SFU), MA (Waterloo), PhD (UBC)

Senior Associate Dean, Strategy and Responsible Business

Academic Director, Centre for Climate and Business Solutions

Full Professor, Marketing and Behavioural Science Division

Rick Pollay Professorship in Marketing for the Public Good

Cakanlar, A., White, K., and Trudel, R., and (2026), “The Politics of Impact: How Political Ideology Shapes Perceptions of the Environmental Impact of Individual Actions,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2, 161-180.
Du, G., Dahl, D. and White K. (2025), “Why Horizontal Organizations Don’t Fall Flat: Organizational Structure Shapes Perceptions of Company Warmth,” Journal of Consumer Research, ucaf041 (published online July 2025).
Levy, E., Habib, R., White, K., and Aquino, K. (2025), “From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Charitable Giving,” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 10 (1), 94-106
Habib, R., Hardisty, D. J., White, K., and Kim, B. J. (2024), “The Closing the Gap Effect: Joint Evaluation Leads Donors to Help Charities Further from Their Goal,” Journal of Marketing Research, 62(1), 77-96.
White, K., Wang, W., and Aquino, K. (2024), “Collective Consciousness and Consumer Behavior,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 34(4), 687-693

Office Henry Angus 774
Tel +1 604.827.3711
Email katherine.white@sauder.ubc.ca