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Ben Gurion university of the negev |
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Department of Psychology |
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David Leiser— דויד לייזר |
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Research Interests My main focus is in Economic Psychology, with an emphasis on investigating how lay people understand economic issues and phenomena, both in micro– and macro-economics. Such studies aim to eventually inform efforts to improve financial literacy, and to better communication with the public by the authorities and financial institutions. More generally, I am interested in lay understanding, theories held by lay people in domains where they do not have the benefit of formal teaching. My interest lies both in the specific contents and in the cognitive mechanisms that account for the organization of knowledge and its limitations, its development in children and its break-down in pathology. In terms of contents, I work on Economic Psychology, Decision Making, and Medical Psychology. Functions President-, Economic Psychology Chapter, International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) Co-Founder, the Pensions, Insurance and Financial Literacy Research Center at Ben-Gurion University Head, Psychology program of Ben-Gurion University at the Haredi College, Jerusalem Advisor to the Rector at Ben-Gurion University Co-Founder of the Research Center on Pension, Insurance and Financial Literacy Chair of the Steering Committee of the MITEAM exam (National Graduate Studies Admission Test in Psychology) Founder and Past-Director (2003-2013) Center for Decision Making and Economic Psychology at Ben-Gurion University Past President -, International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (iarep) |
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Ohayon Bldg 98- Room 320 Department of Psychology PO Box 653 Beer Sheva 84105 Israel |
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Email: dleiser@bgu.ac.il |
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Institutions I spent some time at:
- Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem—BA Mathematics University of Illinois—Urbana-Champain: MSc Education Université de Genève—PhD Psychology
- Visiting Positions Yale University University of Chicago Max Planck Institute—Nijmegen MIT Paris V Paris VI UBO |
