Lecturer

Dr. Hadar Ram

Email
hadar.ram@biu.ac.il
Office
Building 502/11 room 7
Fields of Interest
  1. Learning from experience
  2. Attitudes
  3. Psychological distance
  4. Abstraction
  5. Decision making
  6. Micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial learning, investors' decision making
Reception Hours
בתיאום מראש
CV

A. Contact Details

E-mail: hadar.ram@biu.ac.il

B. Education

2012 – 2018: Ph.D, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University

  • Dissertation: The Effect of Psychological Distance on Generalization in Learning.
  • Advisor: Prof. Nira Liberman

2017: Visiting doctoral student, University of Cologne, Germany      

2015: Visiting doctoral student, New York University, USA           

2010 – 2012: M.A., Social Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University

2005 – 2009: B.A., Psychology (Cum Laude) and Management, School of Psychological Sciences, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University           

C. Academic Positions 

2022 – Present: Assistant Professor,  Department of Social & Health Sciences, Bar Ilan University 

2021 – 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion

2018 – 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

D. Research Awards and Grants

2024-2029: Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF)

2018: Travel Award 19th Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, Atlanta, USA.

2017: Minerva Short-Term Research Grant 

2012: Excellence Award for Master Degrees, Tel Aviv University (2012).

E. Teaching Awards and Grants

Creative Teaching Grant (2024), Awarded for the course "Motivation - Introduction with the Human Operating System"

Dean’s Award for Excellent Teaching, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University (2024).

Rector’s Award for Excellent Teaching, the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University - The Hundred list. (Years Awarded: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017).

Rector’s Award for Excellent Teaching, the Gershon H. Gordon, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University - The Hundred list. (Years Awarded: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016).

Rector’s Award for Excellent Teaching, the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University (2011).

Research
  1. Learning from experience
  2. Attitudes
  3. Psychological distance
  4. Abstraction
  5. Decision making
  6. Micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial learning, investors' decision making
Courses
  • Introduction to Statistics 
  • The Human Capital in the Workplace
  • Motivation - Theory and Practice of the Human Operating System
  • A Psychological View on Issues in the Workplace
  • Psychological distance and Communication Styles in the Workplace (seminar)

 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Papers:

Ram, H., Grinfeld, G., & Liberman, N. (2024). Anticipated variability increases generalization of predictive learning. npj Science of Learning, 9(1), 55. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00269-z

Yang, X., Schulz, J., Schmidt, K., Pfuhl, G., Kenny, A., Ram, H., ... & Dunham, Y. (2024). Large-scale cross-societal examination of real-and minimal-group biases. Nature Human Behaviour.

Ram, H. (2024). Do We Think Differently About People and Things Far Away? Frontiers for Young Minds. DOI:10.3389/frym.2024.1465398‏

Ram, H., Liberman, N., & Unkelbach C. (2023). Psychological distance increases conceptual generalization. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231164701

Ram, H., Giacomin, V., & Wakslak, C. (2022). Entrepreneurial Imagination: Insights from Construal Level Theory for Historical Entrepreneurship. Business History. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2149737

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2019). The relative contribution of response bias and weighting-of-similarity bias to negative asymmetry in attitude generalization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 85: 103887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103887

Ram, H., Struyf, D., Vervliet, B., Menahem, G., & Liberman, N. (2019). The effect of outcome probability on generalization gradient in a predictive learning paradigm. Experimental Psychology. 66(1), 23-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000429.

Peer-reviewed conference presentations:

Chaired Symposia

Ram, H. & Grinfeld, G. (2023). Learning in Context: How Social and Natural Constraints Influence How and What We Learn. The 19th European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Krakow, Poland.

Ram, H. & Lazar, M. (2023). Entrepreneurial and innovation journeys: Opportunities and challenges at different stages. The 6th Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC), Israel.

Ram, H. & Högden, F. (2017). Generalization of Learning: Exploring its Manifestation and the Factors that Affect it. The 18th European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain.

Selected Talks

Ram, H., & Liberman, N., & Unkelbach, C. (2023). Psychological Distance Increases Attitude Generalization. Talk presented at The 6th EASP Meeting on the Psychology of Attitudes: Social Processes of Evaluation (EASP) Bath, England.

Ram, H. & Grinfeld, G., & Liberman N. (2023) Expected Variability Increases Generalization in Learning. Talk presented at The 19th European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Krakow, Poland.

Ram, H., Lazar, M., & Erez M. (2023).Navigating entrepreneurial routes: Early pivots in new ventures. Talk at The Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC), Israel.

Ram, H., Wakslak, C.,& Wiltermuth, S. (2022) Demand for Harmful Information in a Decision Making Context. Talk at European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON), Milan, Italy.

Ram, H., Grinfeld, G., & Liberman N. (2022). The Effect of Psychological Distance on Generalization in Predictive Learning Paradigm. Conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCoP), Israel.

Ram, H., Wakslak, C., & Wasserman, N. (2019) The Effect of Psychological Distance on Equity Split Negotiation. Talk at the 2nd Distance in Organization, New York, USA.

 

 

Last Updated Date : 25/09/2024