Principal Researcher Eliana Polimeni
Education
PhD, Management & Organizations, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
BA, Psychology, University of Chicago
Background
Eliana is a Principal Researcher at the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the Booth School of Business. She also serves as the Chief Scientist at Mindworks. Eliana completed her PhD in Management & Organization at the Kellogg School of Management in 2023, prior to which she worked in market research and consulting. She earned her Bachelors Degree in Psychology at the University of Chicago
Research Interests
Eliana studies the ways in which people's beliefs tend to be miscalibrated and how these beliefs might lead people to make suboptimal decisions. For example, she has found that people overestimate the enjoyment of easy work and discount dimensions such as boredom, ultimately leading them to choose tasks that they are not satisfied with. She has extended this line of work to examine people's beliefs about policy interventions and organizational failure and hopes to pursue questions around people's beliefs about social interactions and interpersonal relationships.