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Tamar Kugler

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Experimental and Social Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004)
  M.A., Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004)
  M.A., Cognitive Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1999)
  B.A., Psychology and Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1995)
  

Current Courses

• MGMT 582C, Univariate Analysis in Management
• MGMT 582D, Multivariate Analysis in Management

Teaching Interests

• Strategic and interactive thinking
• Statistics and research methods
• Judgment and Decision Making

Research Interests/Research

• Interactive decision making
• Emotions and Decision Making
• Inter-group conflict
• Group decision making

Publications and Working Papers

Publications
Baker, T. Harel, A. and Kugler T. (2004). The virtues of uncertainty in law: An experimental approach, Iowa Law Review, 89, 443.

Bornstein, G., Kugler, T. and Ziegelmeyer, A. (2004) Individual and group decisions in the centipede game: Are groups more rational players? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 599-605.

Bornstein, G., Kugler, T. and Zamir, S. (2005). One group must win; the other need only not lose: An experimental study of an asymmetric participation game. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 18, 1-13.

Frost, R., Kugler T., Duestch A. and Forster, K. I. (2005). Orthographic structure versus morphological structure: Principles of lexical organization in a given language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, 1293-1326.

Kugler, T., Neeman, Z. and Vulkan, N. (2006) Markets vs. negotiations: An experimental investigation. Games and Economics Behavior, 56, 121-134.

Kugler, T.,  Kocher, M., Sutter, M. and Bornstein G. (2007). Trust between individuals and groups: Groups are less trusting than individuals but just as trustworthy, Journal of Economic Psychology, 28, 646-657.

Bornstein, G., Kugler, T.,  Budescu, D. V., and Selten R. (2008). Repeated price competition between teams. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66, 808-821.

Rapoport, A., Kugler, T., Dugar, S. and Gisches, E. J. (2008). Braess paradox in the laboratory: An experimental study of route choice in traffic networks with asymmetric costs. In Kugler, T., Smith J. C., Connolly, T. and Son Y. J. (Eds.) Decision modeling and behavior in uncertain and complex environments. Springer, 309-337.

Kugler, T., Smith J. C., Connolly, T. and Son Y. J. (Eds.) (2008). Decision modeling and behavior in uncertain and complex environments. Springer.

Rapoport, A., Kugler, T., Dugar, S. And Gisches, E. J. (In press).  Choice of routes in traffic networks: Experimental tests of the Braess paradox. Games and Economic Behavior.

Kugler, T., Connolly, T., and Kausel, E. (2009). The effects of consequential thinking on trust game behavior. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Kugler, T. and Szidarovszky, F. (2009). An inter-group conflict and its relation to oligopoly theory, CUBO, mathematical education journal

Crawford, V., Kugler, T., Neeman, Z., and Pauzner, A. (2009). Behaviorally optimal auctions. Journal of European Economic Association, 7, 377-387.

Kugler, T., Rapoport, A., and Pazy, A. (In press). Public good provision in inter-group conflicts: Effects of asymmetry and profit-sharing rule. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Selected Working Papers

Kugler, T., and Kausel, E.E. Interactive decision making in groups. Are groups more rational than individuals? Revise and resubmit at Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science.

Kugler, T., Ordonez, L., and Connolly, T. Incidental emotions and risk. Submitted to Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Kugler, T. and Bornstein, G. Individuals and groups as players in bilateral conflicts. Revision at Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Garza, A., Becker, W.J., and Kugler, T. Beyond the discontinuity effect: Fear, greed, and competition between groups.

Kugler, T. and Szidarovszky, F. Modeling inter-group competitions: A game theoretical analysis of within and between group conflicts.

Kugler, T., Kocher, M., Kroll, S., and Sutter, M. Inter-group competition and principal agent games: the effect of a competitive market on reciprocal interactions in groups.

Professional Associations

• Society for Judgment and Decision Making
• Academy of Management
• ESA

Editorial Work

• Editorial Board: Journal of Trust
• Ad hoc Referee: Journal of Economic Psychology; Games and Economic Behavior; Journal of Mathematical Psychology; International Journal of Game Theory; Experimental Economics; Journal of Management; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Judgment and Decision Making; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; American Economic Review; Israel Science Foundation (ISF); Binational Science Foundation (BSF); National Science Foundation (NSF).
• Program Committee, XII International Conference on Social Dilemmas, 2007.
• Program and Organizing Committee, Tucson workshop on Computational and Behavioral Decision Making (2008).

Awards and Honors

• National Science Foundation – PI (joint with Lisa Ordonez and Terry Connolly) – Emotions and Decision Making (2008-2011) ($322,000)
• National Science Foundation – PI - Team Decision Making with Social Preferences, Theory and Experiments (2008-2011) ($138,000).
• Eller College on Management Undergraduate Teaching Innovation Grant (2007).
• The Jim and Rosemary Haleem Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2006).
• United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Joint with Gary Bornstein and Amnon Rapoport (2004-2007).
• Recipient of the Golda Meir Fellowship (2002).
• Israel Foundation Trustees (IFT), Doctoral Research Grant, (2001-2002).
• Extended Ph.D. Scholarship for Excellence, Hebrew University (2001-2004

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