Amnon Rapoport

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Amnon Rapoport
Born
EducationQuantitative Psychology (Ph.D.)
Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scientific career
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Institutions University of Arizona
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Haifa University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Amnon Rapoport (1936-2022) was an Israeli-born quantitative psychologist who was the Eller Professor Emeritus of Management and Organizations at the Eller College of Management [1] at the University of Arizona. His research focused on experimental studies of interactive decision-making behavior. [2] He passed away on December 6, 2022 after more than six decades of academic teaching, research, and service.

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Biography

Rapoport received his doctoral degree in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1965. [2] He was a distinguished professor of management and a highly cited scholar in the social sciences. [3] Rapoport has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Management Science , Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , American Economic Review , Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , Marketing Science , Psychological Review , and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . He was best known for studying human decisions in social and interactive contexts with experimental and quantitative methods. [4]

In his most recent work, Rapoport was interested in experimental studies of interactive decision making behavior, including common pool resource dilemmas, dynamic pricing, fair cost-sharing allocation, route choice in traffic networks, and sequential search by committees. [2] He collaborated with David Budescu.

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References

  1. "University of Arizona Profiles: Amnon Rapoport" . Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "CV Amnon Rapoport" . Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. "Google Scholar Amnon Rapoport" . Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. Budescu, David V; Erev, Ido; Zwick, Rami, eds. (2019). Abstract of Games and Human Behavior: Essays in Honor of Amnon Rapoport. Psychology Press. doi:10.4324/9781315805740. ISBN   9781315805740. S2CID   203429024 . Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  5. Keisler, Jeffrey (1991). "Experimental Studies of Interactive Decisions by Amnon Rapoport". Interfaces (Book Review). 21 (4): 157–158. JSTOR   25061516.
  6. Normann, Hans-Theo (2006). "Amnon Rapoport and Rami Zwick (Eds), Experimental Business Research Vol. II and III". Journal of Economic Psychology (Book Review). 27 (6): 811–812. doi:10.1016/j.joep.2006.05.001.
  7. Budescu, David V.; Erev, Ido; Zwick, Rami (1999). Games and Human Behavior: Essays in Honor of Amnon Rapoport. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  8. Freidman, Daniel (2000). "Psychological Economics in the late 1990s: Games and Human Behavior: Essays in Honor of Amnon Rapoport". The American Journal of Psychology (Book Review). 113 (1): 147–149. doi:10.2307/1423466. JSTOR   1423466.