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Born:  August 26, 1963 (Israel)

Marital Status:  Married + 2

Current Affiliation

Senior Lecturer , Dept. of  Psychology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. Email: Yoella@bgu.ac.il

 

Education

1994 - 1997 Ph.D., Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Ph.D thesis: "On the Relative Value of Reinforcements: The Effect of Framing on Learning in Binary Choice Tasks", (Advisor: I. Erev).

1988 - 1992 M.A. (with Honors) Psychology, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (BGU). MA thesis: “Perception of Artificial Stereoscopic Stimuli from an Incorrect Viewing Point” (Advisor: D. Leiser).

1983  - 1984, 1986 - 1988 B.A. (with Honors) Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, BGU.

 

Academic Positions

2007-present  Senior Lecturer (tenure 2005) ,  Department of  Psychology, BGU.

1997 - 1999, 2001 - 2007  Senior Lecturer Department of Education, BGU.

2002 (summer) Research Fellow, Harvard Business School, Division of Negotiation, Organization and Markets

1999 - 2001  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Business School, Division of Negotiation, Organization and Markets

1994 - 1997  Instructor, Department of Education, BGU.

1992 - 1994  Instructor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, BGU.

1993 - 1995  Lecturer, academic programs under the auspices of BGU, Shaar Hanegev and Achva Regional Colleges.

1993   Instructor, Department for Social Work, BGU.

1990 - 1991 Lecturer, academic programs under the auspices of BGU, Eilat College.

1987 - 1990 Teaching assistant, Department of Behavioral Sciences, BGU.

 

Courses taught

Research Methods in the Social Sciences.

Cognitive Psychology.

Regression and Linear Models.

Introduction to Statistics.

Statistical Inference.

Combined Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics.

Thinking and Decision Making.

Psychological Aspects of Decision Making.

Decision Making in Groups.

Children’s Decision Making

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

 

Research Positions

1991 - 1993 Research officer in the Israeli Air Force.  Development and validation of personnel selection procedures.

1990 - 1991 Statistician for the students registration department in BGU.  Evaluation of selection procedures.

1986 - 1991  Research assistant of Prof. David Leiser.  Conduct and analysis of experiments in three dimensional perception and stereopsis.

 

Research Grants

 

 2007-2010 Israel Science Foundation "Decision making in configuration problems: obstacles and strategies" (with David Leiser) $75,000

2005-2007 Israel Science Foundation "Developmental changes in Positive and Negative reciprocity" $47,000

2004-2006 Israel Foundations Trustees "The influence of age and task complexity on information collection and choice" $24,000

2001 Russell Sage Foundation, Small Grants Program, "What does it take to overcome the winner's curse? The effect of variation in the environment and feedback" (with Brit Grosskopf) $2,800

 

Memberships in professional organizations

SJDM - Society for Judgment and Decision Making

IACM- International Association for Conflict Management

EADM- European Association for Decision Making.

ESA – Economic Science Association

AEA – American Economic Association

 
Reviewer of Academic Publications

Ad hoc reviewer: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, International Negotiation, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Games and Economic Behavior, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic Psychology

 

Funding Agencies: Academy of Management, Israel Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, BSF: United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

 

Academic Committees and Administration

2007-             Head of the Social Psychology and Cognition track, Dept of Psychology, Ben   Gurion University.

2005-2007    Member, Ph.D committee, Dept. of Education, Ben Gurion University.

2005-2006    Head of the Educational Policy, Society & Administration track, Dept of Education, Ben Gurion University 

2001 – 2005    Member, undergraduate teaching committee, Dept. of Education, Ben Gurion University.

1998 – 1999  Chairperson of teaching committee and student selection committee, Dept. of Education, Ben Gurion University.

1998 – 1999  Academic coordinator for the Dept. of Education between Ben Gurion University and Sapir Regional College.

 

Additional Educational Activities

2001 - 2003  Teaching of a course on decision making for high school students as part of the Ben Gurion University project for raising the accessibility of higher education.


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