Lecturer

Dr. Hadar Ram

Email
hadar.ram@biu.ac.il
Office
Building 502/11 room 7
Fields of Interest
  1. Learning from experience
  2. Decision making
  3. Attitudes
  4. Psychological distance
  5. 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 

    2020 – Present: Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Department of Social & Health Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

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

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

     

    D. Research Awards and Grants

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

    2017Minerva 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).

    Research
    1. Learning from experience
    2. Decision making
    3. Attitudes
    4. Psychological distance
    5. Micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial learning, investors decision making
    Courses

    Introduction to Statistics 
    The Human Capital in the Workplace
    Learning Processes and Decision-making in the Workplace
    Motivation - Theory and Practice of the Human Operating System
    A Psychological View on Issues in the Workplace
    Organizational Behavior and Leadership

    Publications

    Papers:

    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 Psychology85: 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.

    Ram, H., Unkelbach, C., &. Liberman, N. (2019). How Psychological Distance and Valence Affects Generalization in Products Evaluations. Data blitz talk at the 20th 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 19th 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 6th European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain.

    Liberman, N. & Ram, H. (2017). Learning from Afar: How Temporal Distance Affects What we Learn. Talk presented at the 6th 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 5th 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 17th 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 20th Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Portland, USA.

    Ram, H. & Liberman, N. (2018). The Effect of Psychological Distance on Generalization. Poster at the 19th 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.

     

    Last Updated Date : 15/08/2023