Sharon Shavitt

Sharon Shavitt is a Professor of Business Administration and Walter H. Stellner Professor of Marketing at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is particularly interested in studying the cross-cultural factors that affect consumer persuasion, attitudinal and value judgments, and survey responding.

After achieving her PhD in Social Psychology at Ohio State University in 1985, Professor Shavitt was employed as an NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Indiana University, before joining the University of Illinois in 1987. She also served as an Adjunct Professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration from 2000 to 2009.