Dr. Yochanan Bigman

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Dr.
Yochanan
Bigman
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yochanan.bigman@mail.huji.ac.il
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Curriculum Vitae

Yochanan Bigman got his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at UNC Chapel Hill and at Yale University before joining the faculty at the Hebrew University Business School. He published his work in leading scientific journals such as Nature, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. At the Hebrew University, he teaches Business Strategy and Business Ethics.

Yochanan Bigman research

Research Summary

Yochanan studies ethics and human-robot interaction. His research focuses on questions of ethics and emerging technologies. He examines the psychology of how people make sense of the behavior of artificial agents (robots and algorithms), how it affects cooperation with them in the workplace, and how it affects the way people interact with each other. He also investigates the factors that affect moral judgments and ethical behavior.  

Publications
  1. Carlson, R*., Bigman, Y. E.*, Gray, K., Ferguson, M. & Crockett, M. (2022). A motive-centered approach to moral judgment. Accepted for publication at Nature Reviews: Psychology. *Equal contribution.
  2. Bigman, Y.E., Wilson, D., Arnestad, M., Waytz, A., & Gray, K. (2022). Algorithmic discrimination causes less moral outrage than human discrimination. Accepted for publication at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.  [Preprint]
  3. Yam, K. C., Bigman, Y. E., & Gray, K. (2021). Reducing the uncanny valley by dehumanizing humanoid robots. Computers in Human Behavior. 125, 1-11. [PDF]
  4. Bigman, Y. E., Yam, K. C., Marciano, D., Reynolds, S., Gray, K. (2021). Threat of racial and economic inequality increases preference for algorithm decision-making. Computers in Human Behavior. 122, 1-11. [PDF]
  5. Wiese, E., Weis, P., Bigman, Y. E., Kapsaskis, K., & Gray, K. (2022). It’s a match: Task assignment in human-robot collaboration depends on mind perception. International Journal of Social Robotics. 14, 141-148. [PDF]
  6. Yam, K. C., Bigman, Y. E., Tang, P. Gray, K., Ilies, R., & de Cremer, D. (2021). Robots at work: People prefer—and forgive—service robots with perceived feelings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106 (10), 1557-1572.
  7. Kachanoff, F. J., Bigman, Y. E., Kapsaskis, K., & Gray, K. (2021). Measuring Realistic and Symbolic Threats of COVID-19 and Their Unique Impacts of Well-Being and Adherence to Public Health Behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12 (5), 603-616. [PDF]
  8. Bigman, Y. E., & Gray, K. (2020). Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles. Nature, 579 (7797), E1-E2. [PDF]
  9. Bigman, Y. E., Waytz, A., Alterovitz, R., & Gray, K. (2019). Holding robots responsible: The elements of machine morality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23 (5), 365-368. [PDF]
  10. Tamir, M., Halperin, E., Porat, R., Bigman, Y. E., & Hasson, Y. (2019). When there's a will, there's a way: Disentangling the effects of goals and means in emotion regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116 (5), 795-816. [PDF]
  11. Bigman, Y. E. & Gray, K. (2018). People are averse to machines making moral decisions. Cognition, 181, 21-34. [PDF]
  12. Tamir, M. & Bigman, Y. E. (2018). Expectations influence how emotions shape behavior. Emotion, 18 (1), 15-25. [PDF]
  13. Bigman, Y. E., Sheppes, G., & Tamir, M. (2017). When less is more: Effects of the availability of strategic options on regulating negative emotions. Emotion, 17 (6), 993-1006. [PDF]
  14. Gutentag, T, Halperin, E., Porat, R., Bigman, Y. E., & Tamir, M. (2017). Successful emotion regulation requires both conviction and skill: Beliefs about the controllability of emotions, reappraisal and regulation success. Cognition and Emotion, 31 (6), 1225-1233. [PDF]
  15. Bigman, Y. E., & Tamir, M. (2016). The road to heaven is paved with effort: Perceived effort amplifies moral judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1654-1669. [PDF]
  16. Bigman, Y. E., Mauss, I. B., Gross J. J., & Tamir, M. (2016). Yes I can: Expected success promotes actual success in emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 1380-1387. [PDF]
  17. Vishkin, A., Bigman, Y. E., Porat, R., Solak, N., Halperin, E., & Tamir, M. (2016). God rest our hearts: Religiosity and cognitive reappraisal. Emotion, 16, 252-262. [PDF]
  18. Tamir, M., Bigman, Y. E., Rhodes, E., Salerno, J., & Schreier, J. (2015). An expectancy-value model of emotion regulation: Implications for motivation, emotional experience, and decision making. Emotion, 15, 90-103. [PDF]