1. Gad Saad is a Canadian marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University.
15 Facts About Gad Saad
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Gad Saad has argued for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour.
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Gad Saad wrote a blog for Psychology Today and hosts a podcast titled "The Saad Truth".
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Gad Saad's family fled in October 1975 to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to escape the Lebanese Civil War.
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Gad Saad's elder brother, David, is a judoka who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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Gad Saad's nephew Ariel Helwani is a mixed martial arts journalist.
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Gad Saad is an atheist who describes himself as culturally Jewish.
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Gad Saad has been a professor of marketing at Concordia University since 1994.
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Gad Saad has held visiting professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, University of California, Irvine and Northwood University.
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Gad Saad was an associate editor for the journal Evolutionary Psychology from 2012 to 2015.
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Gad Saad is an advisory fellow for the Centre for Inquiry Canada.
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Gad Saad wrote a blog for Psychology Today titled Homo Consumericus from 2008 until 2020, and contributed to The Wall Street Journal in 2011.
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Gad Saad has researched how hormones affect and are affected by consumer behavior, such as how conspicuous consumption affects testosterone levels, how testosterone levels affect risk-taking, and how hormones in the menstrual cycle affect buying decisions.
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Gad Saad has researched how men and women differ in gift giving behaviors.
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Gad Saad has appeared on Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast.