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I’m a social psychology professor who studies romantic relationships and American politics. I work at Northwestern University, with appointments in psychology and Kellogg. I serve as the Morton O. Schapiro Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and as founding co-director of the Center for Enlightened Disagreement. My undergraduate degree is also from Northwestern (1997), and my MA (1999) and PhD (2001) degrees are from the University of North Carolina. I live in Evanston, IL, with my wife, two kids, and various pets. I’m curious, but not querulous.

Formal Bio: 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. At Northwestern, he also serves as the Morton O. Schapiro Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and founding founding co-director of the Center for Enlightened Disagreement. He studies romantic relationships and American politics. In his role as director of Northwestern’s Relationships and Motivation Lab (RAMLAB), he has published ~170 scientific papers and is a Guest Essayist for The New York Times. A survey of his peers identified him as the most influential relationship scientist in the 21st century; the Economist declared him “one of the leading lights in the realm of relationship psychology.”