Behavioral Legal Studies - Cognition, Motivation
and Moral Judgment

Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation
Jerusalem and Ramat-Gan, June 9-12, 2014

Monday, June 9, 2014
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Hall # 302

17:30
Chair: Doron Teichman
Greetings: Yuval Shany, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
Daniel Kahneman - Reflections on Psychology, Economics, and Law
Interviewing: Ilana Ritov, Eyal Zamir

Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Beit Meirsdorf, Room 503, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem

9:00-9:30 - Gathering

9:30-11:00 - First Session
Chair: Yaacov Schul 

• Paul Slovic - Errors in the Arithmetic of Compassion: Implications for Lifesaving and Law
• David Lagnado - Spreading the Blame

11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 - Second Session
Chair: Ilan Yaniv

• Ilana Ritov - Other-oriented Decisions: The Role of Identifiability
• Tehila Kogut - Willingness to Help and Willingness to Punish Identified and Unidentified Targets: The Role of Perceived Responsibility and Blame

13:00-14:00 – Lunch

14:00-16:30 – Third Session
Chair: Eliran Halali

• Shaul Shalvi - From Collaboration to Corruption
• Shahar Ayal (with Rachel Barkan, Francesca Gino & Dan Ariely) - Reducing Ethical Dissonance: How People Behave Unethically and Maintain a Clear Conscience
  (Mini-Break)
• Netta Barak-Corren (with Fiery Cushman, Chia-Jung Tsay & Max Bazerman) - If You're Going to Do Wrong, at Least Do it Right: the Counter-Intuitive Effects of Considering Two Moral Dilemmas at the Same Time

16:30-17:00 - Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 - Fourth Session
Beit Meirsdorf, Room 405, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem

Chair: Michal Shur-Ofry

• Tal Zarsky (with Shmuel Becher) -Minding the Gap
• Uriel Haran - A Person-organization Discontinuity in Ethical Judgment

Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Beit Meirsdorf, Room 405, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem

8:50-9:00 - Gathering

9:00-10:30 - First Session
Chair: Yehonatan Givati

• Omer Dekel (with Yoav Dotan) - Cognitive Bias in Government Procurement
• Amos Schurr (with Omer Dekel & Simone Moran) - Qualifying Faults: The Role of Professionalism and Accountability in Bidding Procedures

10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 - Second Session
Chair: Assaf Hamdani

• Avishalom Tor - Law in a Behaviorally-Complex World
• Yuval Feldman (with Constantine Boussalis & Henry E. Smith) - An Experimental Analysis of the Effect of Specificity on Compliance and Performance
  Commentator - Maya Bar-Hillel

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-15:00 - Third Session
Chair: Keren Weinshall-Margel

• Inbar Levy - Chronicle of a Decision Foretold: Interim Remedies and the Confirmation Bias
  Commentator - Shay Lavie
• Carsten De Dreu (with Femke S. Ten Velden) - Groups as Motivated Information Processors: Implications for Decision Making among Judges

15:00-15:30 - Coffee Break

15:30- 17:00 - Fourth Session
Chair:Yaacov Kareev

• Ido Erev (with Alvin Roth) - Maximization, Learning and Economic Behavior
• Eyal Zamir (with Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir & Ilana Ritov) - It's Now or Never!
  Commentator - Barak Medina

17:00 - Poster Session (Refreshments will be served)

Thursday, June 12, 2014
Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law building 306, Room 200

8:30-9:00 - Gathering

9:00-10:40 - First Session
Chair: Oren Perez
Greetings: Shahar Lifshitz, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

• Jeffery Rachlinski (with Andrew J. Wistrich & Chris Guthrie) - Do Judges' Feelings about Litigants Influence Their Decisions?
  Commentator - Julia Shamir
• Doron Teichman (with Yuval Feldman & Amos Schurr) - Anchoring Legal Standards: An Empirical Examination
  Commentator - Yoed Halbersberg

10:40-11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 - Second Session
Chair: Eyal Pe'er

• Alon Harel (with Yuval Procaccia & Ilana Ritov) - Bargaining in the Shadow of Employment Law: An Experimental Study
  Commentator: Lilach Lurie
• Adi Ayal - Networks of Addiction: Mediating Institutions and Consumer Choice 

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-16:00 - Third Session
Chair: Shai Stern

• David Hoffman (with Tess Wilkinson-Ryan) - Intuitions About Contract Formation
  Commentator - Adi Libson
• Zev Eigen - An Experimental Test of the Effectiveness of Terms & Conditions
  (mini-break)
• Moran Ofir - How Homeowners Choose between Fixed and Adjustable Rate Mortgages?

16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 - Fourth Session:
Chair: Ruth Halperin-Kaddari

• Ronen Perry (with Oren Gazal-Ayal and Chen Toboul) - Biases in Perception of Judgments
• Tamar Kricheli-Katz (with Tali Regev) -  Women and Men in Product Markets: Evidence from ebay

Supported by the Israeli Science Foundation, the I-Core Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1821/12), the Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law, and the Aharon Barak Center for Interdisciplinary Legal Research.