She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Miami, her master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on the psychological processes that shape consumer judgments, decisions and behaviors. Specifically, she examines how current experiential states affect cognitions and how these in turn determine consumers’ estimations of utility and value. Her research appeared in top marketing and psychology journals, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Emotion.