Wojciech Trzebiński, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Markets, Marketing and Quality, Collegium of Management and Finance, SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He graduated in mathematics at the University of Warsaw (2002). He gained a doctoral degree in management at SGH Warsaw School of Economics (2014), based on a dissertation on individual determinants of customer quality perception. His main research areas concern survey and experimental consumer behavior research, including customer experience, satisfaction and loyalty, consumer response to marketing and health communication and new technologies (including AI), and the specificity of Central European markets. He teaches research methods, marketing research, service quality management, and consumer behavior. He has been engaged in business practice for years, as a banking industry manager and then as an independent consultant and trainer.
Email: wtrzebi@sgh.waw.pl
Education:
2014 – PhD. (management), SGH Warsaw School of Economics
2002 – MA (mathematics), University of Warsaw
Industry experience:
2003-2016 – Pekao SA, Unicredit Group
2003 – Delloite & Touche, A&A
Research areas:
- customer experience, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty
- marketing communication (advertising, product presentation), eWOM (online reviews) – consumer response
- new technologies, Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, recommenders) – consumer response
- healthcare products and services, health communication – consumer response, quality of life perception
- Polish and Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) – consumer behavior
- marketing and consumer research – quantitative and qualitative methods
Courses taught:
- Marketing Research
- Survey Methods
- Customer Behavior
- Service Quality Management
- BA theses supervisory (PL, EN)
- MA theses supervisory (PL, EN)
Media coverage:
- G. Halfacree, AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy. The Register, https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/ai_moral_persuasion/
- W. Trzebiński. Combining different perspectives: On marketing research collaboration between the University and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. University of Nevada, Reno. College of Business. https://www.unr.edu/business/international/blog/combining-different-perspectives
- T. McKinlay, Is your product nothing special? Science: use specific and concrete product descriptions. LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7039515759986798592/
Selected papers:
- Trzebiński, W., Baran, R., Marciniak, B., Żelazko, B., Karwowska, J., Pawluk, A., Pietrasieński, P. (2025). Geo-social identities make consumers patronize social media influencers: the role of self-congruence. Journal of Consumer Marketing. 11-2024-7340. https://www.emerald.com/jcm/article/doi/10.1108/JCM-11-2024-7340/1278393
- Trzebiński W., Faruk, A. K., Marciniak, B. (2025). Is AI suitable to speak about morality? Consumer response to AI-generated moral appeals in the case of fair trade products. Journal of Business Research. 199, 115487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115487
- Trzebiński W., Trzebiński, J. (2024) How does collectivism help deal with perceived vaccine artificiality? The case of COVID-19 vaccination intent in European young adults. PLoS ONE, 19(3): e0300814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300814
- Trzebiński W., Marciniak B., Karwowska J. (2024). Communicating concrete and abstract product attributes: the role of evaluation mode and inter-attribute trade-offs. Cogent Business & Management, 11(1), 2306685. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2024.2306685
- Karpińska-Krakowiak, M. M., Trzebinski, W., Lim, H., & Marciniak, B. (2023). The dis-matching effect: How argumentation type and message design influence persuasion for emerging technology products. Journal of Business Research, 168, 114207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114207
- Trzebinski W., Marciniak B., Kulczycka E. (2023). Online recommenders’ anthropomorphism improves user response to hedonic and benefit-based product appeals through the recommenders’ perceived ability to learn. PLoS ONE, 18(6), e0287663. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287663
- Trzebinski W., Claessens T., Buhmann J., De Waele A., Hendrickx G., Van Damme P., Daelemans W., Poels K. (2023). The effects of expressing empathy/autonomy-support by a COVID-19 vaccination chatbot: an experimental study in a sample of Belgian adults. Journal of Medical Internet Research Formative Research, 7, e41148. https://formative.jmir.org/2023/1/e41148
- Trzebiński W., Gaczek P., Marciniak B., (2023). Is it better to communicate product information abstractly or concretely? The role of consumer product expertise and shopping-stage mindset, Journal of Product & Brand Management 32(2), 273-285. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPBM-05-2021-3470/full/html
- Trzebiński W., Marciniak B. (2023). Meaning or Importance? E-commerce Consumers Interest in Product Features Presented in Online Offerings: The Role of Self-Relevance and Information Processing, Journal of Internet Commerce, 22(2), 224-243. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15332861.2022.2042116
- Trzebiński W., Marciniak B. (2022). Recommender system information trustworthiness: The role of perceived ability to learn, self-extension, and intelligence cues, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 6, 100193. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958822000276
- Trzebiński W., Marciniak B., Gaczek P. (2022). Self-relevance diminishes the effectiveness of importance and trustworthiness cues in consumer response to online product-related messages, Cogent Social Sciences, 8 (1), 2065151. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2022.2065151
- Trzebiński W., Marciniak B. (2022). There is no smoke without fire: How frequency information and the experience attribution make negative online restaurant reviews more harmful, PLoS ONE, 17 (7), e0271357. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0271357
- Trzebiński J., Potocka A., Trzebiński W., Krzysztoń M. (2021). Willingness to Vaccinate against COVID-19: The Role of Assumptions on the World’s Orderliness and Positivity, Journal of Loss & Trauma, 26(8), 697-713. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15325024.2021.1928430
- Trzebiński W., Baran R., Fira M., Marciniak B. (2021) Advertising premium offers in the pandemic era: the role of emotions in the consumer response. W: International Conference on Research in Advertising 2021, European Advertising Academy. https://cor.sgh.waw.pl/handle/20.500.12182/991
Industry reports:
- Kamiński, B., Król-Całkowska, J., Raulinajtys-Grzybek, M., Barbara Więckowska, B., Trzebiński, W., Byszek, K., Jaśkowiak, D., Kaszyński, D., (2024). Sztuczna inteligencja w zdrowiu. Bezpieczeństwo prawne i wykorzystanie w Polsce, SGH, Think Tank dla Ochrony Zdrowia. https://www.sgh.waw.pl/sites/sgh.waw.pl/files/2024-07/think-tank-dla-ochrony-zdrowia-sztuczna-inteligencja-w-zdrowiu.pdf
- ARC Rynek i Opinia (2017). Monitor satysfakcji klientów Banków detalicznych. https://arc.com.pl/gotowe-raporty-syndykatowe/monitor-satysfakcji-klientow-detalicznych-bankow/
- ARC Rynek i Opinia (2016). Monitor satysfakcji klientów Banków detalicznych. https://arc.com.pl/gotowe-raporty-syndykatowe/monitor-satysfakcji-klientow-detalicznych-bankow/
Selected research projects:
- “Determinants of the adoption of the Polish generative AI” (2025), PI, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “Socio-cultural determinants of consumer preference for product technologization” (2024), PI, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “Older consumers, new challenges: portrayals of older consumers in advertising and their persuasive effects” (2024), team member, PIs: M. Eisend, M. Karpinska-Krakowiak, funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Polish National Science Center (NCN)
- “Revisiting the effects of European (vs. national) identities on attitudes towards the Euro” (2024), team member, PI: R. Wahlund, funding: CIVICA - The European University of Social Sciences
- “Adults’ socio-demographic characteristics, valuation perspective, and TTO valuation of child EQ-5D-Y-3L health states: exploring the role of psychological distance” (2024), PI, funding: EuroQol Research Foundation
- “The European and Polish identities of Polish consumers: consequences for marketing” (2023), team member, PI: R. Baran, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “Consumer response to AI-generated product communication” (2023), PI, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “The effects of collectivism on consumer attitudes toward vaccines” (2022), PI, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “ Artificial Intelligence in product presentation: influence on consumer decision making” (2019-2020), PI, funding: Polish National Science Center (NCN)
- “The persuasiveness of joint and separate presentation of product alternatives” (2020), PI, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “Consumer behavior in the pandemic context” (2020), team member, PI: R. Baran, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- „Consumer experience attribution and its consequences on consumer attitudes” (2018), PI, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “Mechanisms of using product attribute information in consumer attitude formation” (2018), team member, PI: B. Marciniak, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
- “Mazovia Global” (2021), ), team member, PI: M. Wojtysiak-Kotlarski, funding: Polish National Centre of Research and Development (NCBiR)
- “Cognitive representation of products and consumer decision making” (2017), PI, funding: Polish Ministry of Education and Science, SGH KZiF
Research visits & sabbaticals:
- University of Nevada, Reno (2024)
- Erasmus University, Rotterdam (2024)
- University of Antwerp (2023)
Service to profession:
- academic editor – PLoS ONE Social and Behavioral Sciences
- reviewer:
- Journal of Business Research
- European Journal of Marketing
- Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
- Information Processing and Management
- Journal of Consumer Marketing
- International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
- Computers in Human Behavior Reports
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- BMC Psychology
- Digital Health
- PLoS ONE
- International Conference on Research in Advertising (European Advertising Academy)
- Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference (Academy of Marketing Science)
