Kathleen D. Vohs is an associate professor of marketing at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. She holds a McKnight Presidential Fellowship and has recently been named the Board of Overseers Professor of Marketing. Her research is concerned with the psychological effects of being reminded of money, self-regulation, particularly in regards to impulsive spending and eating, making choices, the fear and feeling of being duped, and self-escape behaviors.

The author of over 130 articles published in scholarly journals or chapters in volumes of collected works, she is the co-editor (with Roy F. Baumeister) of Sage’s 2007 Encyclopedia of Social Psychology and the co-editor of three books, including (with Eli Finkel), Self and Relationships, (with Roy F. Baumeister and George F. Loewenstein), Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, which was published in 2008 by the Russell Sage Foundation. Her two most recent books are (with Roy F. Baumeister and Alfred Mele) Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? and (with Roy F. Baumeister), Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Practice (2nd edition).