Ro'i Zultan

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Center for Study of Rationality
Giv'at Ram
Jerusalem 91904
The School of Education
Mt. Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
Israel

Phone: +972-2-6586804
E-mail: roi.zultan(ad)mail.huji.ac.il

[Extended CV]

Academic:
2000 - B. A. in Psychology and General Studies (Archeology and Geography), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2004 - M. A. in Psychology and Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2002-2003 - Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena
1999 - Now - PhD. student, Academic-Educational-Research psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005 - Now - PhD. student, program in rationality, The Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research interests:
Rationality, Bounded rationality, Communication and cooperation, Behavioral incentives, Order of play, Game Theory, Experimental Methodology.

Teaching:
Game Theory, Teachers as Researchers, Methodology (TA), Introductory Psychology (TA), Intelligence and measurement (TA).

Talks:
Jerusalem (Hebrew U), Erfurt (ESA), Berlin (MPI), Ramat Gan (Bar-Ilan U), Würzburg (EAESP), Mannheim, Lund, Bonn (MPI), Lyon (ESA), Jena (MPI), Haifa (APESA), Edinburgh

Publications:

  • Carsten Schmidt and Ro'i Zultan (2005). The Uncontrolled Social Utility Hypothesis Revisited. Economics Bulletin 3, pp 1-7. [PDF]
  • Carsten Schmidt and Ro'i Zultan (2007). Unilateral Face-to-Face Communication in Ultimatum Bargaining - A Video Experiment. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp. 1205-1211 [PDF]

Working Papers and Works in Progress:

  • Altruism, Partner Choice, and Fixed-Cost Signaling (with Andriy Zapechelnyuk) [PDF]
  • An Experimental test of the absent-minded driver "paradox" (with Maria Vittoria Levati and Matthias Uhl)
  • Communication Strategies in Bargaining Games (with Ben Greiner and Werner Güth)
  • Cycles of Conditional Cooperation in a Real-Time Voluntary Contribution Mechanism (with Maria Vittoria Levati) [PDF]
  • Human Foraging Behavior (MA Thesis)
  • Incentive Reversal in Teams (with Esteban Klor, Sebastian Kube and Eyal Winter)
  • Job Market Signaling and Job Search (with Andriy Zapechelnyuk) [PDF]
  • Let the Dummy Talk!: Unilateral Social Communication and Discrimination in a Three-Person Dictator Game Experiment (with Ben Greiner and Werner Güth) [PDF]
  • Order of Play in Games and Competitions (PhD. Dissertaion)
  • Probabilistic Public Goods (with Sebastian Kube)
  • Reciprocity to Heterogeneous Contributions in A Public Goods Game (with Luca Corazzini and Sebastian Kube)
  • Sample Bias and the Endowment Effect (with Matan Tsur)
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Rate Maximization in Foraging Decisions (with Yaakov Kareev)
  • Treating Equals Unequally - Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology (with Sebastian Goerg and Sebastian Kube) [PDF]
  • Unilateral Face-to-Face Communication in Ultimatum Bargaining - A Video Experiment (with Carsten Schmidt) [PDF]
  • Wasting Time to Avoid the Appearance of Wasting Money (with Maya Bar-Hillel and Nitsan Guy)