My research interests include:

• Consumer behavior, consumer psychology, and marketing
• Language, sociolinguistics, and social media listening
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing
• Digital marketing and social media
• Social influence, social conformity, and norms
• Measurement and psychometrics
• Marketing education and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)

My publications include:

• Elizabeth Manser Payne, James W. Peltier, and Victor A. Barger (2021), “Enhancing the value co-creation process: Artificial intelligence and mobile banking service platforms,” Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 15(1), 68-85.
• Elizabeth Manser Payne, James W. Peltier, and Victor A. Barger (2018), “Mobile banking and AI-enabled mobile banking: The differential effects of technological and non-technological factors on digital natives’ perceptions and behavior,” Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 12(3), 328-346.
• Andrea Webb Luangrath, Joann Peck, and Victor A. Barger (2017), “Textual paralanguage and its implications for brand communications,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 27(1), 98-107.
• Elizabeth Manser Payne, James W. Peltier, and Victor A. Barger (2017), “Omni-channel marketing, integrated marketing communications, and consumer engagement: A research agenda,” Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 11(2), 185-197.
• Victor A. Barger, James W. Peltier, and Don E. Schultz (2016), “Social media and consumer engagement: A review and research agenda,” Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 10(4), 268-287
• Victor A. Barger and Lauren I. Labrecque (2013), “An integrated marketing communications perspective on social media metrics,” International Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications, Spring 2013, 64-76.
• Joann Peck, Victor A. Barger, and Andrea Webb (2013), “In search of a surrogate for touch: The effect of haptic imagery on perceived ownership,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23(2), 189-196.