Fall 2006/7

15/11/06: Dalia Gilad (University of Haifa),
"Subconscious Priming of Risk Attitudes in Financial Decision Making".

29/11/06: Rakefet Ackerman (University of Haifa),
"What Do You Mean By “I Don’t Know”? Resolving the Accuracy-Informativeness Conflict in Question Answering".

20/12/06: Dan Ariely (MIT),
"Beer, Vinegar, Energy Drinks, and Pain Killers: Expectations and Experience".

27/12/06: Ayelet Fishbach (University of Chicago),
"Goals as Excuses versus Guides: Dynamics of Goal-Based Choice".

10/1/07: David Tracer (University of Colorado-Denver and Fulbright visitor in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev),
"In Search of Homo Economicus: Experimental Economic Perspectives on Selfishness and Fairness in Papua New Guinea".

8/3/06: Dan Zakay (Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University),
"The psychology of waiting."

5/4/06: Yonatan Levav (Columbia Business School):
"When questions change behaviour: The role of ease of representation."

26/4/06: Maya Bar-Hillel (Department of Psychology and the Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
"Poets and poetry:  A psychologist's perspective".

10/5/06: Leah Borovoi (Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University):
"Information search, memory and decision making in a temporal perspective."

24/5/06: Daphne Raban (Graduate School of Business, University of Haifa):
"Ownership and subjective value in the trading and sharing of information."

31/5/06: Yosi Pliskin (Department of Health Systems Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev):
"Gender differences in taking health risks."

14/6/06: Yaacov Schul (Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Coping with trust and distrust: Activation of congruent and incongruent cognitions."

23/11/05: Avi Kluger (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
“Feedforward before feedback.”

7/12/05: Doron Sonsino (College of Management),
“The perception of correlation in investment decision.”

21/12/05: Erel Avineri (University of the West of England),
“Do travelers make rational route-choice decisions?”

28/12/05: David Leiser (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev),
“Understanding what we don't: psychological construction of macro-economic causality.”

18/1/06: Ilan Yaniv (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
“The use of advice in decision making.”

Spring 2004/5

23/02/2005 "Subjective Ease of Retrieval Accessibility and its Effects on

Evaluation in Subjects High And Low on Experiential and Rational Processing Style".

Shai Danziger, Simone Moran, and Vered Rafaeli, Ben-Gurion

University.

09/03/2005 "Rational Mediation: A Theory and a Test"

Lesley Terris, Tel-Aviv University.

23/03/2005 "On Adaptation, Maximization, and  Reinforcement Learning Among Cognitive Strategies"

Ido Erev, Technion (with Greg Barron)

30/03/2005 "Judging risk and return of financial assets"

Yoav Ganzach, Tel-Aviv University.

18/05/2005 "The role of counterfactuals in choice and outcome evaluation"

Ilana Ritov, Hebrew University.

08/06/2005 "Psychological distance"

Nira Liberman, Tel-Aviv University.

Fall 2004/5

27/10/2004 "Do People Think about Absolute or Relative Differences? Experiments, Pricing Implications, and Market Evidence".

Ofer Azar, Ben-Gurion University

10/11/2004 היבטיים התפתחותיים של תפיסת הוגנות""

Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Ben-Gurion University

24/11/2004 "It's My Turn ... Please, After You": An Experimental Study of Cooperation and Social Conventions. Bradley Ruffle, Ben-Gurion University

08/12/2004 "היוריסטיקת האחידות: נטיות והטיות אינטואיטיביות בשקלול"

Avital Lann, Hebrew University.

22/12/2004 "The perception of deviation from randomness".

Dror Lev, and David Leiser, Ben-Gurion University.

Spring 2003/4

 10.03.04"Win Loving, Risk Attitude and the Evaluation of Lotteries" - An Experimental Study. Tal Shavit, Uri Benzion, and Shosh Sharabani, Ben-Gurion University.

 24.03.04 "The Effects of Society on Individuals - the Emergence of Decision Strategies: A Computerized Simulation Paradigm".

Avi Grushka, Liat Hadar, and Ilan Fischer, Ben-Gurion University.

 14.04.04"Reclaiming Moral Sentiments: Behavioral Economics and the Moral Foundations of Capitalism".

Shlomo Meital, Technion – TIM-Technion Institute of Management.

 12.05.04"Rational Health-Compromising Behavior. "

Gideon Yaniv, College of Management and National Insurance Institute

 19.05.04"Decision Analysis for Prenatal Testing"

Yuval Shahar and Itai Segal, Information systems Engineering Ben-Gurion University

" 09.06.04Coping with Disappointing Outcomes: Retroactive Pessimism and Motivated Inhibition of Counterfactuals. "

Noa Steinberg, and Orit Tykocinsky, Ben-Gurion University.

Seminars prior to March 2004

Tehila Kogut "התרומה לקורבנות מזוהים, בדיקת גבולות התופעה והגורמים לה"

Yoella Bereby-Meyer "Decision making in configuration problems" (with Liat konstantiny;   David Leiser and Moshe Even-Haim).

  Maya Bar-Hillel "Status quo bias in policy choice"

Joachim Meyer and Yuval Bitan "Self-initiated and respondent actions in a medical setting and a lab experiment"

 David Leiser and Reut Beth-halachmi : "Children's understanding of market forces:a developmental study"

 Yechiel Klar- "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes: When every option in the choice-set is better than all the other options in the choice set". 

Tal Shavit – "On the Evaluation of Lotteries and Options"

Bradley Ruffle – "Conditional Cooperation and Socialization: Field Experiments on Israeli Kibbutzim and in Israeli Cities"

 David Leiser – "Psychological structuration of macro-economics causation"

Arie Ayalon – "factors affecting feeling of regret"

Dror Lev – "perception of randomness"

Ravid Bogger – "Calibration revisited"

Simone Moran – "Decoy effects with a dominant alternative: implications for  
comparative advertising"

Joachim Meyer – "Responses to Binary Hazard Warnings"

Ilan Fischer – "The development of confidence in decision making"

Liat Hadar – "Perception and Processing of Vague Probabilities"

Terry Yaskil – "Decision making by traffic judges"

Tamar Kugler – "When the Decision Maker Matters: Unitary Groups vs. Individuals"

Luba Sapir – "Optimality Probability of Various Decision Rules"

Yaakov Kareev – "On the usefulness of contingencies"

Yoella Bereby -- Meyer Department of Education, BGU talking on:
"Decision making in social contexts: the effect of payoff variance"

Rachel Barkan – "Reconciling conflicting effects with the reference-change model".