Assistant Professor
Marketing, Dept of
Kyle Hall 386
Box 6917
As a consumer behavior researcher, I鈥檓 fascinated by the what, why, and how behind people鈥檚 decisions. Exploring the psychology that drives consumer behavior is deeply rewarding to me.
Before returning to academia, I spent over a decade in the marketing industry鈥攚orking for a Fortune 500 company as well as two start-ups. That experience allows me to bridge theory and practice in the classroom, connecting lecture content to real-world applications and addressing students鈥 questions with practical insight.
Today, I remain passionate about applying marketing knowledge in real-world contexts. I continue to collaborate with organizations on projects aimed at solving real business challenges.
Ph.D. in Marketing, West Virginia University, John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Morgantown, WV, USA
M.A. in English, Shandong University, College of Foreign Languages, Jinan, Shandong, China
B.A. in English, Shandong University, College of Foreign Languages, Jinan, Shandong, China
Presentation at 福利导在线观看 May鈥檚 Our Turn, May 2025, Radford, VA
MKTG 344, Sales Management
MKTG 360, Professional Selling
MKTG 446, Marketing Research
Yim, Alexis, Luke Liska, Yumei Mu and Maneesh Thakkar (2025), 鈥淚 Feel No Empathy Toward
AI: The Effects of AI vs Human Spokespersons on Advertisement Effectiveness,鈥濃疛ournal
of Research in Interactive Marketing.
Mu, Yumei and Julian Givi (2025), 鈥淲ho Cares More? A Giver-Recipient Asymmetry in
the Importance of Selecting a Good Gift,鈥 European Journal of Marketing, 59 (1), 59-85.
Givi, Julian and Yumei Mu (2023). 鈥淭he Oversensitivity in Gift-Giving Phenomenon,鈥
Marketing Letters, 34 (4), 619-631.
Givi, Julian and Yumei Mu (2022), 鈥淵our Gift but My Attitude: Gift Givers鈥 Aversion
to Giving Attitude-Inconsistent Gifts,鈥 European Journal of Marketing, 56 (5), 1488-1511.
Whyte, William H. (2020), The Organization Man, trans. Bin Xu, Yumei Mu, and Hong Wu, Beijing: Peking University Press.