Janna Chimeli

Education

• Ph.D., Ohio University, 2015. Experimental Psychology – Cognitive Psychology – Judgment and Decision Making.
• Master of Science, Ohio University, 2012. Experimental Psychology – Cognitive Psychology – Judgment and Decision Making.
• BS, Universidade Gama Filho, Brazil, 1997. Psychology.

Research Interests

Information search (acquisition, processing), judgement formation process and factors or influence, decision making

Professional Experience

Faculty Member (Lecturer), Ohio University College of Business, 2014-present.

Select Publications

• Pueschel, A., Hartman, K., Tucker, M. L., & Chimeli, J. (2019). The effects of fostering the global mindset into the introduction to business undergraduate curriculum. Journal of Scholastic Inquiry: Business.
• Boss, D., Chimeli, J., Jordan, K., Pueschel, A., Reynolds, T., Taylor, P., Taylor-Bianco, A. (2018) A Model for Strategic leadership Development: Turning Action into Impact. ABEAI proceedings
• Gonzalez-Vallejo, C., Xu, P., Weinhardt, J., Chimeli, J., & Karadogan, F. (2017). Use of familiarity difference cue: Recognition cue as a sub-set of familiarity difference cue? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
• Gonzalez-Vallejo, C., Xu, P., Weinhardt, J., Chimeli, J., & Karadogan, F. (2015 – em revisão) Recognition and Knowledge Processes in Comparative Judgement of City Populations. Judgment Decision Making. 
• González-Vallejo, C., Cheng, J., Phillips, N., Chimeli, J., Bellezza, F., Harman, J., Lassiter, G.D., & Lindberg, J. (2013). Early Positive Information Impacts Final Evaluations: No Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect and a Test of a Dynamic Judgment Model. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
• Weinhardt, J.M., Morse, B., Chimeli, J. & Fisher, J., (2012). An item response theory and factor analytic examination of two prominent maximizing tendency scales. Judgment Decision Making.

Presentations and Awards

Awards

Most innovative paper at National Business and Economics Society Conference (NBES) - Spring 2024

Financed grand for the development of a decision simulation software. Janna Chimeli is the leading grant writer and project developer in collaboration with faculty members from the University of Pécs, Hungary - Fall 2019

Outstanding Team of the Year by the Management Department at Ohio University - Spring 2018

One of 35 U.S. and International graduate students and post-doctoral fellows selected and funded to participate in the 2008 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin - Spring 2008

Presentations

Gordon, E., Chimeli, J., Kenyo, L., & Frost, R. From AI to TA: How to use ChatGPT to Quickly Create Statistics and Analytics Assessments. National Business and Economics Society Conference (NBES) 2024. *Awarded the most innovative paper of the conference.

Chimeli, J., Gordon, E., Taylor-Bianco, A. The effect of Regulatory Focus on Ethical Decision. Association for Psychological Science (APS) 2022 Annual Convention.

Boss, D., Chimeli, J., Jordan, K., Pueschel, A., Reynolds, T., Taylor, P., Taylor-Bianco, A. A Model for Strategic Leadership Development: Turning Action into Impact. ABEAI. Spring 2022

Boss, D., Taylor-Bianco, A., Chimeli, J., Reynolds, T. Teaching Business Ethics: Making it Personal. OBTC. Spring 2017

Chimeli, J., Pinegar, S., & Bellezza, F. Hindsight Bias: A correct judgment bias or simply a memory bias. Poster presented at the Judgment and Decision-Making Pre-Conference. Winter 2013

Bellezza, F., Claudia Gonzalez-Vallejo, C., Weinhardt, J., Chimeli, J., & Karadogan, F. Evaluating the Recognition Heuristic Using Competing Probability Models. Poster presented at the Judgment and Decision-Making Pre-Conference. Winter 2012

Lindberg, Matthew J., Lassiter, G. D, Gonzalez-Vallejo, C., Bellezza, F. S., Phillips, N., Chimeli, J., & Harman, J. Unconscious thought is unnecessary to explain “improved” judgments following distraction. Poster presented at the Judgment and Decision-Making Pre-Conference. Winter 2008

Chimeli, J. & Gonzalez-Vallejo, C. Rationality and Calibration. Poster presented at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Summer 2008

Biography

Dr. Janna Chimeli is a dedicated professor with nearly two decades of experience in teaching analytics and judgment & decision-making at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. Eleven of those years have been spent within the College of Business at Ohio University, where she also serves as the Academic Director of Executive Education Programs in partnership with Latin American institutions. In this role, Dr. Chimeli oversees the development of innovative curricula designed to meet the needs of global executives.

Beyond the classroom, she actively engages in consulting work with local businesses, helping them leverage data-driven insights to improve decision-making and consumer research strategies. Dr. Chimeli has a deep commitment to experiential learning, leading international consulting trips for both graduate and undergraduate students, offering them invaluable real-world experience. She also advises the Ohio Sports Analytics Team, mentoring students in applying analytics to the sports industry, fostering the next generation of data-driven professionals.