ד"ר הדר רם

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, The Interdisciplinary Department of Social 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

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

2017: Minerva Short-Term Research Grant 

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

E. Teaching Awards 

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

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).

Papers:

Ram, H., Liberman, N., & Unkelbach C. (in press). Psychological distance increases conceptual generalization. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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. & Högden, F. (2017). Generalization of Learning: Exploring its Manifestation and the Factors that Affect it. The 6^th European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain.

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

Talks

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 2^nd Distance in Organization, New York, USA.

Ram, H., Unkelbach, C., &. Liberman, N. (2019). How Psychological Distance and Valence Affects Generalization in Products Evaluations. Data blitz talk at the 20^th Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Portland, USA.

Ram, H., Wakslak C., & Liberman, N. (2018). Once upon a time: How Psychological Distance Affects What We Learn from Stories. Data blitz talk at the 19^th Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, USA.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2017). The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Generalization  Gradient: Prediction Learning. Talk presented at the 6^th European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain. Chaired Symposia.

Liberman, N. & Ram, H. (2017). Learning from Afar: How Temporal Distance Affects What we Learn. Talk presented at the 6^th European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2017). The Effect of Psychological Distance on Generalization. Talk presented at the Social Psychology Colloquium at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ram, H., Liberman, N., & Wakslak C. (2017). What if the Princess is a Commoner Person? Learning from Afar: How Psychological Distance Affects What We Learn from Stories. Talk presented at the European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON), Gdansk, Poland.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2016). The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Generalization  Gradient: Predictive Learning Task. Talk presented at the PhD Students National Conference in Social Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2016). The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Generalization Gradient: Predictive Learning Task. Talk presented at the European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON), Lisbon, Portugal.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2016). The Effect of Psychological Distance on Attitude Generalization: The BeanFest Paradigm. Blitz talk presented at the 5^th European Meeting on the Psychology of Attitudes (EASP), University of Cologne, Germany.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2016). The Effect of Psychological Distance on Attitude Generalization. Data blitz talk presented at the 17^th Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Diego, USA.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2014). The Effect of Psychological Distance on Attitude Generalization.  Talk presented at the PhD Students National Conference in Social Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel.

Poster Presentations

Ram, H., Wakslak C., & Liberman, N. (2019). As an Old Women Once Said: How Psychological Distance Affects What We Learn from Stories. Poster presentation at the 20^th Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Portland, USA.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2018). The Effect of Psychological Distance on Generalization. Poster at the 19^th Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, USA.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2016). The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Generalization  Gradient: Prediction Learning. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Center of Research excellence (I-CORE) in the Cognitive Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2014). The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Generality of Learning: The BeanFest Paradigm. Informal session at the social cognition preconference European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2013). Temperature, Construal Level and Interpersonal Warmth. Poster presented at the Neuroscientific Views on Affect and its Regulation in Humans, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

בר אילן (2022 - היום)

תואר ראשון:

• מבוא לסטטיסטיקה ב'
• המשאב האנושי בעולם העבודה
• תהליכי למידה וקבלת החלטות במקום העבודה

תואר שני:

• מוטיבציה - תיאוריה ופרקטיקה של מערכת ההפעלה האנושית
• מבט פסיכולוגי על סוגיות בעולם העבודה

אוניברסיטת דרום קליפורניה (2019-2020)

• התנהגות ארגונית ומנהיגות

אוניברסיטת תל אביב 

• מרחק פסיכולוגי (סמינר)
• מבוא לפסיכולוגיה
• סטטסטיקה לניהול
• כלים סטטיסטיים למנהלים 

• Learning from experience
• Decision making
• Attitudes
• Psychological distance
• Micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial learning, investors decision making

E-mail: hadar.ram@biu.ac.il