Research on Close Relationships
Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams, and Michael I. Norton (2021), “Consumers Value Effort over Ease when Caring for Close Others,” Journal of Consumer Research, in press [Accepted Manuscript].

Garcia-Rada, Ximena, and Tami Kim (2021), “Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences,” Psychological Science, in press.

Whitley, Sarah C., Ximena Garcia-Rada, Fleura Bardhi, Dan Ariely, and Carey K. Morewedge (2021), "Relational Spending in Funerals: Caring for Others Loved and Lost," Journal of Consumer Psychology. [Paper]
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Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Ovul Sezer, and Michael I. Norton (2019), “Rituals and Nuptials: The Emotional and Relational Consequences of Relationship Rituals,” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 4(2), 185-197. [Paper]
 
Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Lalin Anik, and Dan Ariely (2019), “Consuming Together (versus Separately) Makes the Heart Grow Fonder,” Marketing Letters, 30(1), 27-43. [Paper]

Research on Decision-Making and Dishonesty
​Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Leslie K. John, Ed O’Brien, and Michael I. Norton (2020), “A Preference for Revision Absent Objective Improvement,” Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-087. [Working Paper]

​Ariely, Dan, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Katrin Godker, Lars Hornuf, and Heather E. Mann (2019), “The Impact of Two Different Economic Systems on Dishonesty,” European Journal of Political Economy, 59, 179-195. [Paper]

Mann, Heather E., Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf, Juan Tafurt, and Dan Ariely (2016), “Cut from the Same Cloth: Similarly Dishonest Individuals Across Countries,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47(6), 858-874. [Paper]
 
Mann, Heather E., Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf, and Juan Tafurt (2016), “What Deters Crime: Comparing the Effectiveness of Legal, Social, and Internal Sanction Across Countries,” Frontiers in Psychology, Cognitive Science, 7, 85. [Paper]