Paul J. Albanese (Ph. D. Economics, Harvard 1982) is Associate Professor of Marketing at Kent State University. He joined the faculty in the Department of Marketing at Kent State University in 1990. From 1983-1988 Dr. Albanese was an Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College, Vermont, and from
1988-1990 a Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Albanese primarily teaches courses on Consumer Behavior. Dr. Albanese's principal area of research is on personality and consumer behavior and he is the author of The Personality Continuum and Consumer Behavior (2002). The Personality Continuum is an integrative framework for the interdisciplinary study of consumer behavior.