Dr. Tehila Kogut
Born: 1964, Israel
Academic Qualifications:
    B.A. , 1996, Hebrew University, Education
    M.A. , 2001, Hebrew University, Education
    Ph.D. , 2004, Hebrew University, Education. Decision Making
Academic Positions:
Department of Education - Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:
Private and public decision making, pro-social behavior
Research Projects:
Identifiability effect in different social categorizations.

The identifiable victim effect evidence from young children

Charitable giving: Focus on self, focus on others.

The singularity effect of identifiable victims: Is it a matter of culture and education?
Publications:
  • Kogut Tehila & Kogut Ehud. Exploring the relationship between adult attachment style and the identifiable victim effect in helping behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49: 651–660 (2013)
  • Kogut Tehila. Knowing what I should, doing what I want: From selfishness to Inequity aversion in young children''s sharing behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology 33: 226-236 (2012)
  • Kogut Tehila & Dahan Momi . Do you look forward to retirement? Motivational biases in pension decisions. Judgment and Decision Making 7: 282–291 (2012)
  • Dahan, M., Kogut, T., & Shalem, M. . Do economic policy experts practice what they preach? The Economic Quarterly 22: 15 (2012)
  • Tehila Kogut & Ehud Kogut. Possession attachment: individual differences in the endowment effect Journal of Behavioral Decision Making : (2011)
  • Ilana Ritov & Tehila Kogut. Ally or adversary: the effect of identifiability in a political context Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process : (2011)
  • Tehila Kogut & Ilana Ritov. "Protective donation": When donating to a cause decreases the sense of vulnerability Journal of Experimental Social Psychology : (2011)
  • Tehila Kogut. Choosing what I want or keeping what I should: The effect of decision strategy on choice consistency. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process : (2011)
  • Tehila Kogut. The role of perspective-taking and emotions in punishing identified and unidentified wrongdoers Cognition and emotion : (2011)
  • Tehila Kogut. Someone to blame: When identifying a victim decreases helping Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47: 748–755 (2011)
  • Shpaizman Ilana & Kogut Tehila. Can perceptions of similarity reduce the ability to see the other’s needs? The case of immigrant students’ integration policy Social Psychology of Education 13: 425-440 (2010)
  • Kogut Tehila. Public decisions or private decisions? When the specific case guides public decisions Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 22: 91-100 (2009)
  • Kogut Tehila & Beyth-Marom Ruth. Who helps more? Self-other discrepancies in helping-behavior contexts Judgment and decision making 3: 595–606 (2008)
  • 3. Kogut Tehila & Ritov Ilana. Saving one of us: Outstanding willingness to help rescue a single identified compatriot Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 104: 150–157 (2007)
  • 2. Kogut Tehila & Ritov Ilana. The Singularity Effect of Identified Victims in Separate and Joint Evaluations Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 18: 157-167 (2005)
  • Kogut Tehila & Ritov Ilana. The "Identified Victim" Effect: an Identified Group, or Just a Single Individual? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 97: 106-116 (2005)
Book Chapters:
  • Tehila Kogut & Ilana Ritov, The identifiable victim effect: Causes and boundary conditions, The Science of Giving: Experimental approaches to the study of charitable giving , D. M. Oppenheimer & C. Y. Olivola , part 2, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010
Keywords:The role of emotinons in decisions, helping behavior, fairness.
Phones:
  1. Phone: 972-8-6461868
  2. Mobile: 972-547-240120
Email:kogut@bgu.ac.il