Jannine Lasaleta,Ph.D. Student

Jannine LasaletaJannine Lasaleta, a Ph.D. candidate in her first year of study in the marketing department, came to the Carlson School of Management from York University, Toronto, Canada.  Lasaleta holds a BA in psychology from the University of British Columbia, where she focused on cross-cultural psychology, comparing the differences between Japanese and North American culture, and an MA in social psychology from York University, where her thesis examined the self-conscious emotions of shame and guilt and their impact on forgiveness.  In a new paper recently accepted to the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Lasaleta and her co-authors explore cultural differences in self-awareness.


Current Research

Research Interests:

  • Compulsive Spending
  • The Self and Consumer Behavior
  • Emotions and Consumption

Recent Publication:

  • "Cultural Variation in Objective Self-Awareness," Steven J. Heine, Timothy Takemoto, Sophia Moskalenko, Jannine Lasaleta, and Joseph Henrich, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (forthcoming).


Curriculum Vitae

Jannine Lasaleta CV


Contact Information

Jannine Lasaleta, Ph.D. Student

Carlson School of Management

University of Minnesota

321 Nineteenth Avenue South, Suite 3-150

Minneapolis, MN  55455-0438

lasa0009@umn.edu