Current Research Projects:

Experimental studies of individual decision making processes:

Sequential observation and selection processes

Revenue management

Experimental studies of interactive decision making behavior:

Adaptive learning in interactive decision-making

Multistage contests

Provision of public goods

Queueing systems with endogenously determined arrival times

Decisions in networks

Population learning of trust and distrust

Educational History:

1957 - 1961 B.A. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in Psychology and Philosophy (double major).

1963 M.A. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Quantitative Psychology.

1965 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Quantitative Psychology.

Professional History:

University of Arizona, USA

1989 - to date Karl Eller Professor of Management and Policy

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2003 - to date Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics

4/2004 - 5/2004 Visiting Professor of Marketing

1997 - 1999 Visiting Professor of Marketing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA:

1986 - 1989 Professor of Psychology

1976 - 1986 Research Professor of Psychology

1972 - 1976 Professor of Psychology

1968 - 1972 Associate Professor of Psychology

1965 - 1966 Research Assistant Professor of Psychology

Haifa University, Israel:

1983 - 1992 Head of Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making (IIPDM)

1974 - 1992 Professor of Psychology

1980 - 1983 Head of the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory

1979 - 1983 Dean of the Graduate School

1975 - 1976 Head of the Research Authority

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA:

1983 - 1984 George A. Miller Visiting Professor of Psychology
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS):

1977 - 1978 Fellow in Residence

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel:

1971 - 1972 Associate Professor of Psychology

1966 - 1968 Lecturer in Psychology and Education

1994 - 1995 Visiting Professor (Joint Visit at the School of Business Administration, Department of Psychology, and Center of Rationality and Interactive Decision Making)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA:

1964 - 1965 Assistant Research Psychologist at the Mental Health Research Institute (post-doctoral fellow)

Professional Membership (National):

European Association of Decision Making (EADM)

Society for Mathematical Psychology

Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) Society

Honors:

1994 - 1995 Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visiting Professor at the Center of Rationality and Interactive Decision Making

1961 - 1965 Fulbright Traveling Grant

1965 First Award Winner (Ph.D. Dissertation), Fourth Annual Creative Talents Award of the American Institutes of Research

Teaching Interests:

Interactive decision making (conflict and cooperation in the dyad, two-person bargaining, adaptive learning, coalition formation, social dilemmas)

Individual decision making (static, sequential, and multistage decision behavior)

Applied decision making for MBA students

Statistics for psychology and business administration

Review Boards:

Occasional reviews of scientific papers or grant proposals for:

Acta Psychologica

American Economic Review

American Political Science Review

Behavioral Science

European Journal of Social Psychology

Group Decision and Negotiation

International Journal of Forecasting

Journal of Applied Psychology

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Management Science

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Psychological Review

Psychological Science

Psychometrika

The Israeli National Academy of Science

Ford Foundation (Israel)

Israel Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

Editorship:

Journal of Mathematical Psychology Associate Editor, 1990 - 2003

Experimental Economics Editorial Board, 1997 - to date

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Editorial Board, 2003 - 2004

Games and Economic Behavior Associate Editor, 2003 - 2006

Productions and Operations Management Senior Editor – to date