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Dr Nicolas Pontes
Dr

Nicolas Pontes

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Overview

Background

Nicolas Pontes is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the UQ Business School and he holds a PhD and a MSc in Marketing, both with a focus in Branding. His industry experience include roles such as marketing research coordinator, marketing manager, and marketing consultant. He has a large experience in teaching and research at leading universities in Australia, where he has had the role of Program Coordinator for Advertising and IMC majors at both Undergraduate and Post-Graduate levels. Dr Pontes is also the Founder and Academic Advisor at Newish Communications Inc., the first student-run communications agency in Australia. His research interests are in the area of consumer decision-making and information processing with a particular interest in online consumer behaviour, social media engagement, price and promotion advertising, and branding. His research has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Product & Brand Management, and Journal of Brand Management. His work has also been presented at international advertising and marketing conferences such as Association for Consumer Research [North America], American Marketing Association, and American Academic of Advertising.

Research Supervision I am not accepting new HDR (Mphil or PhD) students.

Availability

Dr Nicolas Pontes is:
Not available for supervision

Research interests

  • Information processing and Decision Making

    Framing product benefits, advertising claims and the skeptical consumer, framing of price promotion, colour display effects

  • Social Media Marketing and Social Media Influencers

    Influencer engagement, consumer-influencer relationships, advertising.

  • Relationship Marketing

    Loyalty programs, preferential treatment, rewards, consumer emotions and attachment, and AI and Service Robots in service encounters.

Works

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31 works between 2016 and 2025

21 - 31 of 31 works

2022

Journal Article

Effects of social media brand-related content on fashion products buying behaviour – a moderated mediation model

Schivinski, Bruno, Pontes, Nicolas, Czarnecka, Barbara, Mao, Wen, De Vita, Jennifer and Stavropoulos, Vasileios (2022). Effects of social media brand-related content on fashion products buying behaviour – a moderated mediation model. Journal of Product & Brand Management, 31 (7), 1047-1062. doi: 10.1108/jpbm-05-2021-3468

Effects of social media brand-related content on fashion products buying behaviour – a moderated mediation model

2021

Journal Article

Thank you but no thank you: the impact of negative moral emotions on customer responses to preferential treatment

Pontes, Vivian, Pontes, Nicolas, Greer, Dominique A. and Beatson, Amanda (2021). Thank you but no thank you: the impact of negative moral emotions on customer responses to preferential treatment. European Journal of Marketing, 55 (12), 3033-3058. doi: 10.1108/EJM-06-2019-0448

Thank you but no thank you: the impact of negative moral emotions on customer responses to preferential treatment

2021

Journal Article

Stopover destination attractiveness: A quasi-experimental approach

Pike, Steven, Pontes, Nicolas and Kotsi, Filareti (2021). Stopover destination attractiveness: A quasi-experimental approach. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 19 100514, 100514. doi: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2020.100514

Stopover destination attractiveness: A quasi-experimental approach

2021

Journal Article

Spillover effects of competitive rivalry on brand extensions

Pontes, Nicolas and Pontes, Vivian (2021). Spillover effects of competitive rivalry on brand extensions. Journal of Brand Management, 28 (4), 402-412. doi: 10.1057/s41262-021-00234-w

Spillover effects of competitive rivalry on brand extensions

2020

Journal Article

Feeling red lucky? The interplay between color and luck in gambling settings

Pontes, Nicolas and Williams, Laura Kai (2020). Feeling red lucky? The interplay between color and luck in gambling settings. Psychology and Marketing, 38 (1) 21408, 43-55. doi: 10.1002/mar.21408

Feeling red lucky? The interplay between color and luck in gambling settings

2020

Journal Article

The role of team identification on the sponsorship articulation–fit relationship

Pontes, Nicolas, Pontes, Vivian, Jin, Hyun Seung and Mahar, Chris (2020). The role of team identification on the sponsorship articulation–fit relationship. Journal of Sport Management, 35 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.1123/jsm.2019-0401

The role of team identification on the sponsorship articulation–fit relationship

2020

Journal Article

The culinary intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO: a review of journal articles in EBSCO platform

Oliveira, Bruno Santucci, Tricárico, Luciano Torres, Sohn, Ana Paula Lisboa and Pontes, Nicolas (2020). The culinary intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO: a review of journal articles in EBSCO platform. Journal of Culinary Science and Technology, 18 (2), 138-156. doi: 10.1080/15428052.2018.1513882

The culinary intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO: a review of journal articles in EBSCO platform

2019

Journal Article

The red-derogation effect: how the color red affects married women's ratings of male attractiveness

Pontes, Nicolas and Hoegg, JoAndrea (2019). The red-derogation effect: how the color red affects married women's ratings of male attractiveness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26 (3), 551-565. doi: 10.1037/xap0000256

The red-derogation effect: how the color red affects married women's ratings of male attractiveness

2018

Journal Article

The effect of product line endpoint prices on vertical extensions

Pontes, Nicolas Goncalves (2018). The effect of product line endpoint prices on vertical extensions. European Journal of Marketing, 52 (3/4), 575-595. doi: 10.1108/ejm-01-2016-0005

The effect of product line endpoint prices on vertical extensions

2017

Journal Article

Brand expertise and perceived consistency reversals on vertical line extensions: the moderating role of extension direction

Pontes, Nicolas, Palmeira, Mauricio and Jevons, Colin (2017). Brand expertise and perceived consistency reversals on vertical line extensions: the moderating role of extension direction. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 34, 209-218. doi: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2016.10.003

Brand expertise and perceived consistency reversals on vertical line extensions: the moderating role of extension direction

2016

Journal Article

Framing as status or benefits? Consumers' reactions to hierarchical loyalty program communication

Palmeira, Mauricio, Pontes, Nicolas, Thomas, Dominic and Krishnan, Shanker (2016). Framing as status or benefits? Consumers' reactions to hierarchical loyalty program communication. European Journal of Marketing, 50 (3/4), 488-508. doi: 10.1108/EJM-02-2014-0116

Framing as status or benefits? Consumers' reactions to hierarchical loyalty program communication

Funding

Past funding

  • 2021
    Understanding consumer perceptions of superfood products
    Elite Medical Supplies
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Dr Nicolas Pontes is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Consumer preference for a grocery store type due to the perception of local socio-economic benefits

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Peter Popkowski-Leszczyc

  • Doctor Philosophy

    What Makes Brands Authentic in their Relationships with Consumers? The Role of Influencers Self-Disclosure on Brand Authenticity.

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Enhancing Patient Satisfaction through Natural Language Processing (NLP): Unveiling the Depth and Uniqueness of Clinician Notes in Teleconsultation Platforms

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cassandra France

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The use of AI in the Advertising context and its influence on online consumer behaviour.

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cassandra France, Dr Mai Nguyen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Humanoid Social Robots in Retailing: Barriers to Consumer Use

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Peter Popkowski-Leszczyc

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The adoption of service robots: A comparison between people-processing and possession-processing service settings

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Peter Popkowski-Leszczyc

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Using Image and Message Framing to Encourage Consumers to Reduce Plastic Waste

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ravi Pappu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Role of Emotions in Consumer Acceptance of Food Innovations

    Associate Advisor

Completed supervision

Media

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