Jong An Choi is a first year student in the Carlson School's Ph.D. program for marketing and logistics management. He comes to the University of Minnesota with a BA in psychology and a firm foundation of doctoral work in social psychology at Seoul National University in Korea. Choi is a prolific researcher whose current interests include priming effects on goals and behavior, implicit attitudes towards brands, embodied cognition and emotion, the self and the decision making process, and cultural differences in consumer behavior.