Ramzi Suleiman
(Last updated: July 2011)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing Address: Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
Phone: 972-4-8240142
Fax : 972-4-8240966
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EDUCATION
1968 B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
1972 M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
1977 Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, University of Haifa
1982 M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Haifa
1989 Ph.D., Psychology, University of Haifa
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2002- Present Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa
1997- 2001 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa
1991-1996 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa
1989-1990 Adjunct Lecturer, School of Business, University of Arizona
Nov. 1999 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology University of Bern
Aug. 1999 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Hokkaido University
May-Sept. 1998 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam
July 1996 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
June 1995 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bern
Sept. 1993 Visiting Scholar, Department of Management and Policy, University of Arizona.
Aug.-Sept. 1992 Visiting Scholar, Department of Management and Policy, University of Arizona.
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
2001-2005 Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa
2000-2001 Chair, Doctoral Committee, Department of Psychology
2001-2006 Member of the University of Haifa Senate
Member of the University Presidential Search Committee
Member of the Senate Constitution Committee
Senate representative on the Board of Trustees
Member of the Disciplinary Court of Appeals
Member of the Dean of Students Forum
Head of the social psychology special graduate program
Head of the clinical-educational M.A. program for Arab students
Member of the Board of Directors, the Jewish-Arab Center
Member of the Board of Directors, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Emotions
Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Peace Education
Research Fellow at the Institute for Information Processing and Decision Making
Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Perception and Attention
Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Social Psychology
Member of the Dean’s Committee for Outstanding M.A. Thesis (1998- 99)
Psychological Review
Journal of Mathematical Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Acta Psychologica
The Economic Journal
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation
Journal of Experimental Economics
Theory and Criticism (in Hebrew)
Iyunim Behinuch (in Hebrew)
Reviewer for Research Foundations
The Israel Science Foundation
The Bi-National Israeli-American Foundation (BSF)
The Israel Ministry of Science
Israel Foundations Trustees
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the School for Peace, Neve Shalom
President of the Galilee Center for Social Research, Haifa
Member of the SimSoc Consortium - Publisher of Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation
Co-founder and Editor of Palestinian Society and History Review
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation
Member of the editorial board of International Social Science Review (HAGAR)
Member of the editorial board of Theory and Criticism (1995-6)
Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
Research Fellow at the Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, Beit-Berl College
Member of the Branco Weiss Institute for The Development of Thinking, Jerusalem
Member of the Advisory Council for the Minister of Education on Arab Education
Member of the board of directors of the Arabic Theater in Israel
Member of the steering committee for peace education. The Israel Ministry of Education
Member of the board of directors of the Follow-up Committee on Arab Education in Israel
PARTICIPATION IN SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES
1.National and civic identities of young Arabs in Israel: Implications for educational policy. Conference on Administration and Policy for Arab Education in Israel, March, 1986, Haifa, Israel.
2. Provision of public goods in the presence of social and environmental uncertainty Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Experimental Social Psychology, April 1987, Jerusalem, Israel.
3. Effects of continuous contribution and variable provision threshold on the provision of public goods The 2nd meeting on Judgment and Decision-Making, June 1987, Haifa, Israel.
4. Effects of environmental uncertainty on group decision making in a class of social dilemmas. The 11th Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making, August 1987, Cambridge, England,
5. Environmental and social uncertainty in single-trial resource dilemmas. The 20th. Mathematical Psychology Meeting, August 1987, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
6. Psychological reaction mechanisms of Israeli society in response to events in the West Bank and Gaza. The events in the Territories: Psychological aspects and implications, June 14, 1988, Jerusalem, Israel.
7. Provision of step-level public goods with uncertain threshold The 3rd International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 25-19, 1988, Groningen, Sweden.
8. Commons dilemma games with random resources The 3rd International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 25-19, 1988, Groningen, Sweden.
9. Resource dilemmas with random sources. The 1989 meeting of the Public Choice Society, March 17-19, 1989, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
10. Five easy pieces about cognitive style in Jewish-Arab ‘co-existence groups’.
The 12th annual scientific meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology,
June 18-22, 1989, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
11. Provision of step-level public goods: the continuous contribution mechanism.
The 5th. International Conference on the Foundation and Applications of Utility, Risk, and Decision Theories, June 9-13, 1990, Duke University, North Carolina, U.S.A.
12. Resource dilemmas with environmental uncertainty and sequential protocol of play
The 13th Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision-Making,
August 18-23, 1991, Fribourg, Switzerland.
13. The position effect: The role of a player’s position in sequential resource dilemmas. The 5th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 11-15, 1992, Bielefeld, Germany.
14. Position order and group size effects in resource dilemmas with uncertain resources. The Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November, 1992, St. Louis, U.S.A.
15. Prejudiced democrats are no exception. The International Conference on Education for Democracy in a Multi-Cultural Society, June 6-10, 1993, Jerusalem, Israel.
16. Testing the equilibrium solution for resource dilemmas under uncertainty. The 14th Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision-Making, August 22-26, 1993, Aix-en –Provence, France.
17. A research paradigm for the study of minorities. Research on the Arabs in Israel: Present State and Desired Future Directions. Institute for Peace Studies at Givat Habiba. June 8-9, 1994, Givat Habiba, Israel.
18. Benevolent and cruel: A social- psychological perspective on the majority as a discriminating group. Israel Toward the Ed of the Century from the Perspective of its Arab Citizens. June 6, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel.
19. The effect of identifiability and sanctions on the provision of step-level public goods.
The 6th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, June 18-23, 1995, Wassenaar, Holland.
20. The evolution of cooperation in a simulated intergroup conflict. The 6th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, June 18-23, 1995, Wassenaar, Holland.
21. Testing expectations, fairness, and strategic models in a modified ultimatum game. The International Conference on Game Theory and Applications, June 25-29, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel.
22. Testing expectations, fairness, and strategic models in a modified ultimatum game. The 15th bi-annual conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, August 20-24, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel.
23. The evolution of cooperation in a simulated intergroup conflict. The 15th bi-annual conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, August 20-24, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel.
24. The effects of sequential order, entitlement and environmental uncertainty in a single-step resource dilemma game. The 15th bi-annual conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, August 20-24, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel.
25. Allocators do not demand the whole cake in ultimatum games. The 3rd conference of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, October 23-24, 1995, Bier Shiva, Israel.
26. Might and morality in minority politics: Some lessons from economics and social psychology. The 7th. Adele Singer Rifkind Conference on Cultural and Religious Pluralism, December 18-20, 1995, Jerusalem. Israel.
27. Common pool resource dilemmas with incomplete information, The 29th Mathematical
Psychology meeting, August 1-4, 1996, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
28. The evolution of cooperation in simulated inter-group conflicts. The 2nd. International Conference on Social Science Microsimulation, May 5-9, 1997, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
29. Step-level public goods with external and internal provision, The 7th. International Conference on Social dilemmas, July 2-6, 1997, Cairns, Australia.
30. The effects of power asymmetry, social orientation and culture on resource allocation in dyadic interactions. The 7th. International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 2-6, 1997, Cairns, Australia.
31. A social-psychological perspective of social justice. International conference on Justice, Peace and Human Rights, August 18-25, 1997, Aiya Napa, Cyprus.
32. Election frequency and the emergence of cooperation in an intergroup conflict. SIMSOC 97 - International conference on Simulating Societies, September 22-25, 1997, Cortona, Italy.
33. The evolution of cooperation in a simulated inter-group conflict. Learning: Aspects of Rationality, Evolution and Experimentation (workshop in honor of Reinhard Selten), March 2-3, 1998, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
34. On marginal peoples: The case of the Palestinians in Israel. The Conflictual Construction of Identities in the Middle East, November 24-26, 1998, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
35. Minority self-categorization and intergroup relations in Israel. International Conference on Identity and Trauma, The Sigmund Freud Museum, June 18-18, 1999, Vienna, Austria.
36. On the dynamics of reinforcement learning in a class of games with multiple equilibria.
The 8th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 12-16, 1999, Zichron Yaakov, Israel.
37. Evolutionary dynamics in populations of probabilistic reactive strategies. The 8th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 12-16, 1999, Zichron Yaakov, Israel
38. Iterated N-person Prisoner's dilemma with a central authority. The 8th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 12-16, 1999, Zichron Yaakov, Israel.
39. On Coexistence: Terms and modalities. International Conference on Interethnic Coexistence, November 7-8, 1999, University of Haifa, Israel.
40. Religion and nationality in the middle east. International Conference on Challenges to Democracy: Peripheries as a Vantage Point, May 19-21, 2000, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
41. Planned encounters between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis: A social-psychological perspective. International Conference on Peace Research, May 21-26, 2000, University of Haifa, Israel.
42. Effects of trust-giver's expectations and trust-receiver's empathy on trust honoring, The Ninth International Conference on Social Dilemmas, June 29- July 3, 2001, Chicago, U.S.A.
43. Providing public goods under uncertainty: Effects of probable external goods and external bads The Ninth International Conference on Social Dilemmas, June 29- July 3, 2001, Chicago, U.S.A.
44. Iterated N-person Prisoner's Dilemma with central authority (poster presentation The Ninth International Conference on Social Dilemmas, June 29- July 3, 2001, Chicago, U.S.A.
45. Religious and national identity among Palestinians A Theology of Pluralism under Conditions of National and Religious Conflict: What is Possible? May 20-21, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel.
46. A Critical Perspectives on the Construction of Borders in Israel. One-fold–threefold– manifold: Identity Politics in Israel, October, 21-25, 2002, Bern, Switzerland.
47. Effectiveness of coercive and voluntary institutional solutions . The 10th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, August, 18-23, 2003, Marstrand, Sweden.
48. Pro-socials are more risk averse than others. When? And why?. The 10th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, August, 18-23, 2003, Marstrand, Sweden.
49. The participation dilemma: Participation in groups and resource sharing as solutions to environmental uncertainty The 10th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, August, 18-23, 2003, Marstrand, Sweden.
50. Risk behavior in the presence of others: Effects of social orientation and social context on individual decision making under risk The 19th Bi-Annual Conference on Subjective Probability Utility and Decision Making, August, 25-27, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.
51. Effects of Social Value Orientation, Social context and Risk Appraisal on Risk-Taking Behavior. The 11th. International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 24-28, 2005, Krakow,
Poland.
52. The Jewish-Arab Conflict- Opportunities for Dialogue and Reconciliation International Conference on Vulnerability and Tolerance, July 4-8, 2007, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
53. Voice vs. Emotion Expression in Ultimatum Bargaining The 12th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 8-12, 2007, Seattle, U.S.A.
54. The discontinuity effect: The distinct influences of fear and greed and their interaction with social value orientation The 12th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 8-12, 2007, Seattle, U.S.A.
55. Safety in what numbers? Sharing resources vs. repeated trials as means for coping with environmental risk The 12th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, July 8-12, 2007, Seattle, U.S.A.
56. Sensitivity to intensions of others in the ultimatum game among patients with ventromedial prefrontal lesions (with R. Gohary & S. Shammay-Tsoory). The Annual meeting of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society, January 22, 2008, Haifa, Israel.
57. Sensitivity to intensions of others in the ultimatum game among patients with ventromedial prefrontal lesions (with R. Gohary & S. Shammay-Tsoory). The 2nd annual Social & Affective Neuroscience Conference, June 6-8, 2008, Boston, U. S. A.
57. Ultimatum bargaining with emotion expression: effects of social utility and gender on responders' punishment behavior. The 5th Asia Pacific meeting of. ESA. March 25-29, 2009, Haifa, Israel.
58. Ultimatum bargaining with emotion expression: effects of social utility and gender on responders' punishment behavior. The 5th Asia Pacific meeting of. ESA. March 25-29, 2009, Haifa, Israel.
59. Emotions, self interest and self-worth as predictors of responders' behavior in a simple bargaining game. The 5th Asia Pacific meeting of. ESA. March 25-29, 2009, Haifa, Israel.
60. Ultimatum Bargaining with Emotion Expression: Effects of Social Value Orientation and Gender on Responders' Behavior (with Yifat Hibner & Yuval Samid),. The 13th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, August 20-24, 2009, Kyoto, Japan.
61. Self-interest vs. self-worth in a modified ultimatum game (with Yuval Samid). The 13th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, August 20-24, 2009, Kyoto, Japan.
62. Costless Messages Outperform Altruistic Punishment (with Yuval Samid, Tali Reinfeld & Amir Hayek). The European Meeting of the Economic Science Association, September, 17 – 20, 2009, Innsbruck, Austria.
63. Self-interest vs. self-worth in human economic behavior (with Yuval Samid). The European Meeting of the Economic Science Association September, 17 – 20, 2009, Innsbruck, Austria.
64. Stigma Is Hazardous to Your (Sexual) Health: Stigmatized Social Identity, Risky Sexual Practices, and Identity Fragmentation in Gay Men (with with Amir Rosenmann & Marilyn Safir). International Association for Relationship Research Biannual Conference, July, 2010, Herzliya, Israel.
65. Conscious / Non- Conscious Identity Positivity and Integration Predicts Risky and “Out of Control” Sexuality in an Online Sample of MSM (with Amir Rosenmann & Marilyn Safir. International Academy of Sex Research Annual Conference, July, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic.
66. Effects of ex ante and ex post communication on behavior in simple bargaining games. International Workshop on Experimental Approaches in Conflict Research, January 3-4, 2011, Jerusalem, Israel.
67. Punishment of Cooperators is not Only Harmful (with Yuval Samid, Taly Reifeld & Amir Haek). The 7th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics,
6-9 April, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
68. Democracy, Trust and Cooperation: a Cross-Societal Outlook. International Conference on “ Adversity and Diversity”, April 18-19, 2011, Jerusalem, Israel
69. Comments on “Sanction Despite Reasonable Doubt - A Public Goods Experiment with Sanctions Under Uncertainty - by: Grechenig, k., Nicklisch, A. & Thöni, C. International Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Legal Studies. May 23-24, 2011, Jerusalem, Israel,
70. Behavioral and Emotional Reactions to Voice Unanswered (with Liraz Margalit & Yuval Samid). The 24th. Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management. July, 3-6, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
71. Punishment Strategies Across Societies. The 14th. International Conference on
Social Dilemma, July 6-9, 2011, Amsterdam, Holland.
72. The sharing dilemma: Joining groups and sharing resources as a means of coping with environmental risk (with Efrat Aharonov). The 14th. International Conference on
Social Dilemma, July 6-9, 2011, Amsterdam, Holland.
73. Effects of responsibility for injustice and information regarding injustice on trust giving (with Tania Azzam). The 14th. International Conference on Social Dilemma, July 6-9, 2011, Amsterdam, Holland.
74. Self-favoring and other-favoring in a class of two-person interactions. International Conference on Game Theory and Society, July 27-30, 2011, Zürich, Switzerland.
SELECTED COLLOQUIUM TALKS AND OTHER INVITED ADDRESSES
RESEARCH GRANTS
1. The Basic Research Foundation of The Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities: Social Dilemmas with Random Source (Co-Principal Investigator with Budescu, D. V., & Weg, E.). 1988-9. (Total grant: NIS 40, 000).
2. The United States-Israeli Bi-National Foundation (BSF): Experimental Studies of Voluntary Provision of Public Goods. (Co-Principal Investigator with Messick, D. M., & Rapoport, A.). 1990-2. (Total grant: $42,500).
3. The Technion and University of Haifa Joint Research Fund: Rationality and the Conscious Use of Expected Utility Theory. (Co-Principal Investigator with Erev, I., & Lipshitz, R.). 1991-2. (Total grant: $5000).
4. The National Science Foundation (NSF): Social Dilemmas with Uncertain Resources. (Co-Principal Investigator with Rapoport, A., & Budescu, D. V.). 1991-2. (Total grant: $43,242).
5. The National Science Foundation (NSF): Resource Dilemmas: Simultaneous and Sequential Requests (Co-Principal Investigator with Rapoport, A., & Budescu, D. V.). 1992-4. (Total grant: $155,552).
6. The Committee for Planning and Funding, Israel Council for Higher Education: Effect of Sources of Social and Environmental Uncertainty on the Willingness to Contribute to Public Goods. 1993-4. (Total grant: NIS 22,000).
7. The Bertha von Suttner Foundation: The Perception of National Identity of the Minority and Intergroup Relations in Israel, 1993-4. (Total grant: DM 10,500).
8. The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace: The Perception of National Identity of the Minority and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Israel. 1993-4. (Total grant: $5000).
9. The Bertha von Suttner Foundation: The Effect of the Peace Process on the Perception of the Social Identity of the Arabs in Israel. 1994-5. (Total grant: DM 9,000).
10.The Van Leer Institute at Jerusalem: The Effects of Group Relations and Cultural Influences on the National Identity of the Palestinians in Israel. 1995-6. (Total grant: DM 20,000).
11. The Research Authority of the University of Haifa: Testing The Equilibrium Solution for a Modified Ultimatum Game. 1995-6. (The proposal was submitted to the Basic Research Foundation of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities and received high evaluation). (Total grant: NIS 10,000).
12. The Basic Research Foundation of The Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities: Effects of Sources of Social and Environmental Uncertainty on the Willingness to Contribute to Public Goods. 1996-7. (Total grant: $45,418).
13. The Committee for Planning and Funding, Israel Council for Higher Education: Disentangling Sequential and Power Effects in a Class of Ultimatum Games (Total grant: $ 6,000).
14. The Basic Research Foundation of The Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities: Disentangling Sequential and Power Effects in a Class of Ultimatum Games. 1998-2000. (Total grant: $47,000).
15. The Research Authority of the University of Haifa: Effects of Structural Power, Social Orientations and Learning on Behavior in Modified Ultimatum Games. 2001. (The proposal was submitted to the Basic Research Foundation of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities and received high evaluation). (Total grant: NIS 15,000).
17. The Basic Research Foundation of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities: The Participation Dilemma - Joining Groups and Sharing Resources as a Means of Coping with Environmental Risks. 2008-2010 (Total Grant: $79,000).
18. The United States-Israeli Bi-National Foundation (BSF): Empathy and intergroup relations: the neural mechanisms of ingroup empathy bias (co-principal investigators - Jean Decety and Simone Shamay-Tsoory. 2011-2012 (Total Grant: $75,000).
19. Basic Research Foundation of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities: The Emergence of Punishment Strategies in the Public Goods Dilemma. 2012-2014 (Total Grant: $53,897).
COURSES TAUGHT IN RECENT YEARS
Cooperation, Competition and Social dilemmas (Department of Psychology, Graduate Level)
Judgment and Decision Making (Department of Political Science, Graduate Level)
Decisions and Behavior in Strategic Situations-An Experimental Approach (Dept. of Economics, Graduate Level).
The Jewish-Arab conflict: A theoretical intergroup conflict approach (Department of Psychology , Graduate Level).
The Social Psychology of Intergroup Behavior (Department of Psychology, Graduate Level).
Cooperation, Competition and Social Dilemmas (Department of Psychology, Research Seminar. Undergraduate Level).
Selected Topics in Social Psychology (Department of Psychology, Graduate Level)
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ronit Ben-Dov, Yasmin Arpali, Keren Or-Chen, Yael Bareket, Taly Weiss-Shalev, Esti Peled, Michal Shemesh, Rama Tubi, Amid Saabni, Raveh Harush, Omer Rakover, Tamir Kira, Tzvia Resis, Ghadir Zreik, Efrat Aharonov, Keshet Marzan, Tali Reinfeld, Tania Azzam, Lizu Gabai, Pini Lozon, Ravit Gohary, Ortal Shnable, Yifat Hibner, Reem Yihia, Neria Gal, Yuval Samid, Amir Rosenmann, Liraz Dudy, Menachem Gelbard
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Expectations and fairness in a modified Ultimatum game
Suleiman, R. J ournal of Economic Psychology 17 (1996) 531-554
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