Erica Boothby is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches a course on Negotiations. Her research examines decision-making and social influence. She explores the psychological processes underlying people’s (often misguided) beliefs about the impact they have on others in the course of everyday social interactions, including conversations, shared experiences, and acts of kindness. Erica’s work has been published in top-tier academic journals, such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Science, and covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Scientific American.
Prior to arriving at The Wharton School, Erica completed her PhD in Social Psychology at Yale University and was a Fellow at Cornell University’s Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center. She has a degree in Philosophy and Italian from Boston University.