Eli Finkel

Eli Finkel -- author of the bestselling book The All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work -- is a professor at Northwestern University, where he has appointments in the psychology department and the Kellogg School of Management. He studies romantic relationships and American politics. In his role as director of Northwestern’s Relationships and Motivation Lab (RAMLAB), he has published over 150 scientific papers and is a contributor to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. The Economist has identified him as "one of the leading lights in the realm of relationship psychology.

Education

• PhD, 2001, Social & Quant. Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.A., 1999, Social & Quant. Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• B.A., 1997, Psychology, Northwestern University, Magna Cum Laude

Academic Positions

• Professor of Management and Organizations (MORS), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2013-present
• Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2012-present
• Associate Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2008-2012
• Assistant Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2003-2008
• NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001-2003

Awards

• Election to the “Faculty Honor Roll." This award comes from Northwestern Undergraduate Students, and it honors "professors who have been extremely effective in positively impacting [students’] lives or ways of thinking.”
• New York Magazine: One of the "6 Best Books for a Healthy Relationship" (The All-Or-Nothing Marriage")
• Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' “Distinguished Teaching Award”
• Martin J. and Patricia Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Professorship, Two years
• George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology, Society for General Psychology/American Psychological Association
• One of the "Top 10 Professors at Northwestern", College Magazine
• Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for the 2015 Psychological Review article titled "Transactive Goal Dynamics.", 2016
• National Science Foundation Grant (co-PI), Motivations for Promotion and Prevention in Relationship Initiation, 2010-2013
• Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relational Research, International Association for Relationship Research (IARR), 2010
• Early Career Award, Relationship Researchers Interest Group of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), 2008
• SAGE Young Scholars Award, 2008
• National Science Foundation Grant (PI), Advancing Understanding About One Form of Interpersonal Violence, 2007-2012
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Summer Institute: Emotion and Decision, 2004
• Dissertation Award, International Association for Relationships Research (IARR), 2002