My research interests are individual and strategic decision making, which I study using theoretical and experimental tools.

Courses Taught

• Behavioral Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Microeconomic Theory

Prizes and Awards

• John Rea Prize (2020)
• American Economic Review excellence in refereeing award (multiple years)
•  Lady Davis Fellow (1994)
• The Knesset’s certificate of appreciation for outstanding academic achievements (1988/9).
• Rector’s prize 1986-8

Grants

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (continuously since 2003)

Published in

• Econometrica

• Review of Economic Studies

• Journal of Political Economy
• American Economic Review
• American Economic Review-Insights

Courses Taught: 

Prizes and Awards: 

Books:

Research Interests:

I am interested in understanding the capabilities of unconscious processes, and in using this knowledge to gain insights into the functions of consciousness. Relatively longstanding projects in the lab include the investigation of (non-conscious) working memory and executive functions, (non-conscious) goal pursuit and motivation, (non-conscious) goal conflict and self control, and (non-conscious) nationalism. Newer projects include (non-conscious) arithmetic and reading, the study of emotional and motivational factors that determine when things pop into consciousness, and application of various of the above-mentioned projects to the area of judgment and decision making. In recent years I have also examined various aspects of emotional processes, ranging from emotion perception, to emotion regulation and phenomenology. The lab mainly uses behavioral measures, but from time to time we resort to physiological data, patient data, and even colorful (and less colorful) pictures of the brain. In one fMRI study, run by a former graduate student in the lab, we even found significant activations outside the skull.

Courses Taught:

• Linear and Non-linear Programming
• Introduction to Operations Research
• Applied Probability
• Stochastic Simulation
• Statistical Inference
• Probability and Statistics
• Linear Algebra

Prizes and Awards:

Best paper award, NetGCOOP, 2014

Grants:

Published in:

• Management Science

• Operations Research

• Mathematics of Operations Research
• Letters of Operations Research
• Queueing System
• SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
• European Journal of Operations Research
• Journal of Applied Probability

President, Operations Research Society of Israel (2012-2015)

Head, Department of Statistics (2008-2012)

Behavioral economics; empirical research (survey-based, experimental, administrative data); household behavior; macroeconomic indicators and well-being measurement; expectations and beliefs; survey methodology; psychological, social, and cultural aspects of economic behavior; social status and expenditure visibility; economic policy.

Courses Taught:

• Macroeconomics
• Israeli economy and business
• behavioral economics
• microeconomics

Published in:

• American Economic Review
• American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
• American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
• American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
• Review of Economics and Statistics
• Journal of the European Economic Association

See also:

• פרופ' אורי חפץ: "אנחנו בפתחה של התאוששות חסרת תקדים"

Combinatorics and convexity and their connections with and applications to other areas.

Research Interests:

Individual and Interactive Decision Making; Choice Behavior; Structural Limitations of the Cognitive System and their Implications.

Courses Taught:

• Cognitive Psychology
• Decision Making
• Statistics
• Research Methodology

Grants:

• ISF 382/20 – the dynamics of self-sorting; BSF 2015206 – the sustainability game: inducing and fostering environmentally responsible behavior;
• ISF 996/15 – be the tail of the lions or the head of the foxes?;
• ISF 121/11 – short-term regret and its effect on repeated decisions;
• GIF 2008/120 – the monitoring of changing environment.

Published in: 

• Psychological Review

• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

• Psychological Science
• Cognition
• Cognitive Science

Research Interests: 

Comparative politics and political economy, in particular electoral politics, representation, electoral systems and institutions more broadly, party systems, as well as in gender and politics.

Courses Taught: 

• Comparative politics field seminar
• Gender and politics
• Electoral politics: voters and institutions

Published in:

•  American Journal of Political Science
• American Political Science Review
• British Journal of Political Science
• Journal of Politics
•  Political Analysis

Prizes and Awards: 

• Longley Award for best article in representation and electoral systems. APSA, Representation and Electoral Systems section (2017).
• Israel Young Academy (affiliated with The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities), member (first cohort) (2012-2016).
• President's Prize named after Yoram Ben-Porath for Outstanding Young Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2011).
• Riker Award for best book in political economy. APSA, Political Economy section. (2010).

*Former President of the European Political Science Association (2017-2019)

See also:

• האם הקול הנשי יכריע את הבחירות לנשיאות ארה"ב? [גלובס]
• את לא נולדת שמאלנית, את נעשית כזאת: מה יקרה אם רק נשים יצביעו בבחירות? [The Marker]

Research Interests:

the genetic, environmental and developmental contributions to altruism and empathy; how values develop due to contexts, cultures, families, and genetics. Parenting, child temperament, and mutual parent-child influence.

Courses Taught:

• Development of values
• Personality development: change, stability, genetics and environment

Published in:

• Developmental Science
• Child Development
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Grants: 

• Culture of Schooling project grant from the John Templeton Foundation (2019)
• Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (2018)
• Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (2013)
• ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant (2009)
• Science of Generosity Center award, John Templeton Foundation (2009)

Prizes and Awards:

• Michael Bruno Award for Scientific Excellence. Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Foundation) (2015)
• Elected member of the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences (2012)
• George A. Miller Award of the Society for General Psychology – APA Division One (2011)
• Outstanding Paper of the Biennium Award, The International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection (2008)
• Early Scientific Achievement Award, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) (2007)

I combine computational and experimental approaches with an eco-evolutionary perspective to study conservation biology, human and cultural evolution, host-microbiome dynamics, biogeography of underground ecosystems, and more.

Courses Taught

Models in ecology and evolution

Prizes and Awards

• 2020-2021        Golda Meir Fellowship Lectureship award, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• 2019-2022        Alon Young Faculty Fellowship, Council for Higher Education in Israel

Grants

• Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) personal research grant – Inbreeding in bottlenecked populations, 2020-2024
• US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) – young researchers award, Evolution on structured landscapes, 2020-2022
• Moore Foundation, Model systems in aquatic symbiosis: Microbiome & Killifish immune system, 2020-2022
• Ring Foundation for Atmospheric and Global Studies, The socio-political ecology of introduced species, 2021-2022
• Ministry of construction and housing, Israel, Species diversity in urban ecosystems, 2021-2022

Published in

• Nature Ecology and Evolution

• Nature Communications

• PNAS

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - B

See also

• Humans didn’t outsmart the Neanderthals. We just outlasted them. [Washington Post]

• A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From [The Atlantic]

• מחקר: הניאנדרטל נכחד בגלל חוסר מזל, לא בגלל טיפשות [הארץ]

Research Interests:  

Information economics, Financial economics, Game theory

Courses Taught: 

• Finance

• Information Economics

Prizes and Awards:

Yoram Ben Porat prize, UWFC best paper

Grants: 

• ERC

• ISF

• BSF

• NSF

Published in:

•  American Economic Review

• Journal of Political Economy

• Econometrica
• Review of Economic Studies
• Journal of Finance

Research Interests:

Courts; Sentencing; Discretion and Legal Decision-Making; Litigation and Plea Bargaining; Development of Law, Norms and Institutions; Law and Economics; Behavioral Law and Economics; Empirical Legal Studies.

Courses Taught:

• Criminal Procedure
• Sentencing
• Law and Economics Workshop

Grants:

• Israel Science Foundation, Individual Research Grant
• Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Award
• Charles Koch Foundation Research Grant

Published in:

• Journal of Legal Studies
• Northwestern University Law Review
• Supreme Court Economic Review
• University of Chicago Law Review Online