Adam Eric Greenberg
Assistant Professor

Biography
Adam Eric Greenberg is an Assistant Professor in the department of Marketing at Università Bocconi. Prior to joining Bocconi, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Marketing at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He studies consumer behavior and judgment and decision making. His research focuses on consumer financial decision making, well-being, and the framing of choices. He is the author of numerous articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, among others. He has a bachelor's degree in Economics (with a minor in religion) from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California.
Recent Publications
- 2025
Bounded rationalization: The role of acceptance in postchoice and postassignment rationalization.
MUNZ, K. P., A. E. GREENBERG, V. G. MORWITZ, "Bounded rationalization: The role of acceptance in postchoice and postassignment rationalization.", Psychological Review, 2025 - 2023
What Motivates Social Security Claiming Age Intentions? Testing Behaviorally-Informed Interventions Alongside Individual Differences
GREENBERG, A. E., H. E. HERSHFIELD, S. B. SHU, S. A. SPILLER, "What Motivates Social Security Claiming Age Intentions? Testing Behaviorally-Informed Interventions Alongside Individual Differences", Journal of Marketing Research, 2023, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 1052-1070 - 2021
Consumer debt and satisfaction in life.
GREENBERG, A. E., C. MOGILNER, "Consumer debt and satisfaction in life.", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2021, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 57-68 - 2021
Financial shame spirals: How shame intensifies financial hardship
GLADSTONE, J. J., J. M. JACHIMOWICZ, A. E. GREENBERG, A. D. GALINSKY, "Financial shame spirals: How shame intensifies financial hardship", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021, vol. 167, pp. 42-56 - 2021
Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness
JACHIMOWICZ, J. M., R. MO, A. E. GREENBERG, B. JERONIMUS, A. V. WHILLANS, "Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness", Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2021, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 1294-1306 - 2020
Financial product sensitivity predicts financial health
GREENBERG, A. E., A. B. SUSSMAN, H. E. HERSHFIELD, "Financial product sensitivity predicts financial health", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2020, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 15-26
Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2023
Poets & Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professors, 2020

