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Stephanie's headshot: a black and white photo of a woman with curly hair and glasses smiling into the camera.

Hello

Thanks for stopping by! I am currently a fifth year PhD Candidate in Marketing (Consumer Behavior) at the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. I am actively on the 2024-2025 job market. 

About Me.

I'm Stephanie Flout (she/her/hers), a fifth year PhD Candidate in Marketing at OSU. In my job market paper, I explore the consumption inferences consumers make based on the aesthetic choices of others, specifically consumer minimalists. You can access my job market paper by clicking here. Separate from my dissertation work, I am interested in how consumers perceive, interact with, and utilize artificial intelligence. Specifically, the ways in which consumers use AI during decision-making. My research on consumer minimalism has been presented at the Association for Consumer Research annual conference, the Society for Consumer Psychology annual conference, and the Mittelstaedt & Gentry Doctoral Symposium. Please reach out as I would love to chat about potential collaborations, research, employment opportunities or other questions you may have.

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On a personal level, I grew up in Doha, Qatar (of 2022 Word Cup fame). I am also a lifelong musician. I began classical training on the violin at the age of five and have been in love with making music ever since. I enjoy both collecting and learning new instruments as well as sharing my passion for music with others. If you meet me at a conference, you might end up with an instrument in your hands! Other extracurricular passions include cuddling and training my cats, Medieval history - specifically exploring the roles and perceptions of women in Medieval society (we're not as different as one might think from those who came before us), oil painting, hiking and exploring nature, travel, and playing the occasional video game.

Education.

PhD in Marketing | Concentration: Consumer Behavior, 2025 (Expected)

The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business

Master of Business Administration (MBA) | Certificate of Marketing, 2020

University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Lindner College of Business

Master of Arts in Arts Administration, 2020

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science | Minor: French, 2018

University of Kentucky, College of Arts & Sciences

Bachelor of Arts in International Economics | Minor: Music Theory & History, 2018

University of Kentucky, College of Arts & Sciences

Research Interests.

01.

Aesthetics

02.

Consumer Inference

03.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

04.

Person Perception

Research.

Revising for Journal Submission

Flout, Stephanie L., Xiaoyan Deng, Yunhui Huang and Qiang Hong, "Minimally Indulgent: How Consumer Minimalism Signals High Self-Control”

In Progress

Flout, Stephanie L. and Donald R. Gaffney, "TikTok Paradox”

In Progress

Flout, Stephanie L., Xiaoyan Deng, and Yunhui Huang, "Minimalism and Experiential Consumption” 

In Progress

Flout, Stephanie L. and  Xiaoyan Deng, "App Usage Frequency as Influenced by App Icon vs. Brand Logo
Design” 

In Progress

Flout, Stephanie L. and Donald R. Gaffney "When Anthropomorphism Fails: The Dehumanization of AI Agents”

In Progress

Sittenauer, Emma, Donald R. Gaffney, Liang Shen, Stephanie L. Flout, Frank R. Kardes, "Novel Moderators of the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit"

Presentations. 
(*Denotes Presenter)

  • Flout, Stephanie*, Xiaoyan Deng, and Yunhui Huang (2024) “Minimally Indulgent: How Consumer Minimalism Signals High Self-Control”, Mittelstaedt & Gentry Doctoral Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska

  • Flout, Stephanie, Xiaoyan Deng, and Yunhui Huang* (2023) “Minimally Indulgent: How Consumer Minimalism Signals High Self-Control”, Society for Consumer Psychology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

  • Flout, Stephanie*, Xiaoyan Deng, and Yunhui Huang (2022) “Minimally Indulgent: How Consumer Minimalism Signals High Self-Control”, Association for Consumer Research, Denver, Colorado (poster).

  • Neybert, Emma*, Donald R Gaffney, Liang Shen, Stephanie Flout, Maxwell Richards, Frank Kardes, Sarah Elizabeth Perry, Zoey Phelps (2020), “Novel Moderators of the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit”,  The Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Virtual. 

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