Andrew Edelblum

Assistant Professor
Full-Time Faculty
School of Business Administration: Management and Marketing

Andrew Edelblum

Assistant Professor
Full-Time Faculty
School of Business Administration: Management and Marketing

Profile

Dr. Andrew Edelblum is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Dayton. His research examines how consumers and organizations respond to the cultural, digital, and political changes unfolding around them. In particular, he studies how identity, morality, technology, and social context shape the ways people evaluate brands, engage with online platforms, and make marketplace decisions. His work has appeared in journals including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Psychology & Marketing, the European Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.

In the classroom, Dr. Edelblum teaches marketing research and social media marketing, where he helps students turn everyday curiosity into thoughtful research and practical insight. His courses frequently involve projects with real organizations, and he enjoys mentoring students as they develop original research of their own. He also creates short-form videos that make marketing research more accessible by connecting consumer psychology to branding, social media, and pop culture. Outside of work, he can be found barreling through a 7am run, attending a live show, playing Nintendo games, or scrolling considerably further than any reasonable person should.

Courses Taught

  • MKT 351 - Social Media Marketing and Metrics
  • MKT 450 - Buyer Behavior and Marketing Analysis
  • MKT 452 - Marketing Research
  • MKT 499 - Independent Study

Degrees

  • University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Ph.D. (Marketing), 2022
  • University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, M.S. (Marketing), 2019
  • The College of New Jersey, Ewing Twp, NJ, B.A. (Psychology) 2016

AI in Teaching

  • AI Fellow, Summer 2025 Cohort
  • MKT 351 (Social Media Marketing): Generative AI was integrated into a semester-long experiential learning project. Students partnered with Brooks Running to research, create, and refine a comprehensive social media campaign. The project required using diverse AI tools for idea generation, video production, and post-production editing. Students concluded by writing a reflection report assessing where AI saved time and where human judgment was essential.

Research Interests

  • Theoretical: attitudes, morality and ethics, political ideology
  • Managerial: new media, technology, branding
  • Methodological: experiments, ethnography, applied econometrics

AI in Research

  • Edelblum, A. B., & Poe, J. (2026). Liking Without Endorsing: Consumer Dilemmas in Responses to AI‐Generated Music. Psychology & Marketing.

Recent Publications

  • Edelblum, Andrew B. and Joshua Poe, “Liking Without Endorsing: Consumer Dilemmas in Responses to AI-Generated Music” (2026), Psychology & Marketing, forthcoming.
  • Edelblum, Andrew B., “Information That Speaks: Integrating Data Storytelling into Pedagogical Practice” (2026), Journal of Marketing Education, forthcoming.
  • Lee, Na Young, Andrew B. Edelblum, Kevin H. Park, and Alex R. Zabel, “Rethinking Social Media Strategy: Crafting Digital Sensory Appeals to Maximize Customer Engagement” (2026), Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 54 (3), 886–906.
  • Edelblum, Andrew B., Abby Frank, and Justin Palmer, “The Beauty Backfire Effect: How Extreme Attractiveness Undermines Fitfluencer Relatability and Engagement” (2025), Psychology & Marketing, 42 (11), 2981–2995.
  • Edelblum, Andrew B. and Markus Giesler, “Consumer Activism in the Metaverse: A Framework for Virtualized Protest as Playful Resistance” (2025), Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 10 (2), 191–205.
  • Dugan, Riley, Andrew B. Edelblum, Ashish Kalra, Na Young Lee, and Sangsuk Yoon, “How Social Media and Flexible Work Arrangements Harden Salespeople to Abusive Supervision” (2024), Industrial Marketing Management, 121 (3), 146–159.
  • Edelblum, Andrew B. and Nathan B. Warren, “Real Men Don’t Share (Online): Perceived Neediness and the Frequent-Posting Femininity Stereotype” (2024), European Journal of Marketing, 58 (2), 572–589.
  • Loyka, Caitlin, John R. Ruscio, Andrew B. Edelblum, Brittany Wetreich, Lindsay Hatch, and Amanda Zabel (2020), “Weighing People Rather Than Food: A Framework for Examining External Validity,” Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15 (2), 483–496.