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Employment
2010-present:
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, Tilburg
University.
2008-2010: Post-Doctoral
Fellow, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, Harvard
University.
2008-2010: Adjunct
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Education
Ph.D., Social and
Personality Psychology, Cornell University, August 2008. Primary advisor: Thomas
Gilovich
B.A., Psychology
(with honors), University of California at Berkeley, 2000
Honors,
Fellowships, and Grants
Sage Graduate Research
Fellowship, Cornell University, 2003-2004, 2007-2008
Travel Award, Judgment
and Decision Making Preconference at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, 2006, 2007, 2008
Graduate Student
Conference Grant, Cornell University, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Distinction in
General Scholarship, University of California at Berkeley, 2000
Professional
Affiliations
Society for
Judgment and Decision Making
Society for
Personality and Social Psychology
Journal Articles
Carnevale, J. J., Inbar,
Y., & Lerner, J. S. (in press). Individual differences in
need for cognition and decision-making competence among leaders. Personality and Individual
Differences.
Inbar,
Y., Cone, J., & Gilovich, T. (2010). People’s intuitions about intuitive insight
and intuitive choice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 232-247.
Inbar, Y.,
Pizarro, D. A., & Bloom, P. (2009). Conservatives are more easily disgusted.
Cognition & Emotion, 23,
714-725.
Inbar, Y.,
Pizarro, D. A., Knobe, J., & Bloom, P. (2009). Disgust sensitivity predicts
intuitive disapproval of gays. Emotion, 9, 435-439.
Manuscripts
Under Review or Revision
Critcher,
C., & Inbar, Y. (under review). Quick decisions illuminate moral
character.
Critcher, C., &
Inbar, Y. (under revision). Would you risk your life? Risk domain changes
attention to risk parameters.
Inbar,
Y. (under revision). Unrealistic optimism: A pessimist’s review.
Inbar, Y., Botti, S., & Hanko, K. (under review). Take it easy: A metacognitive account of choice regret.
Inbar,
Y., & Gilovich, T. (under revision). Angry, but
adjusting? The effect of specific emotions on
adjustment from self-generated anchors.
Inbar,
Y., Pizarro, D. A., & Bloom, P. (under revision).
Disgusting smells cause decreased liking of gay men.
Manuscripts In
Preparation
Inbar,
Y., & Gilovich, T. (in preparation). Choosing as you feel: Mental states
cue choice strategies.
Inbar,
Y., Pizarro, D. A., Gilovich, T., & Ariely, D.
(in preparation). Morality and masochism:
Feeling guilt leads to physical self-punishment.
Other Articles
Inbar, Y., &
Pizarro, D. A. (2009). Grime and Punishment: How disgust influences moral,
social, and legal judgments. The Jury Expert, 21, 11-23.
Invited Talks
Lay intuitions
about intuitive insight and intuitive choice. Northeastern
University, Department of Psychology, March 2009.
Disgusting
politics: Disgust sensitivity is related to political orientation and
sociomoral attitudes. Cornell University,
Department of Human Development, October 2006.
Professional
Presentations
Free Will, Moral
Action, and Moral Responsibility. Chaired
symposium at the 2010 meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. (Co-chair: David
Pizarro).
Inbar, Y., & Botti, S. Take it
easy: A metacognitive account of choice regret. Paper presented at the 2010
conference on Behavioral Decision Research in Management, Pittsburgh, PA.
Inbar, Y.,
Pizarro, D. A., Gilovich, T., & Ariely, D. Morality
and masochism: Feeling guilt leads to physical self-punishment. Paper presented
at the 2009 meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Pittsburgh, PA.
Inbar, Y., Cone, J., & Gilovich, T. People’s intuitions
about intuitive insight and intuitive choice. Paper presented at the
2009 meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.
Inbar,
Y., Cone, J., & Gilovich, T. (2009). People’s
intuitions about intuitive insight and intuitive choice. Paper
presented at the 2009 Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision-Making
(SPUDM) conference, Rovereto, Italy.
Pizarro, D. A.,
& Inbar, Y. (2009). Shock and ewww: Purity,
morality, and self-punishment. Paper presented at the 10th annual meeting
of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Inbar, Y., Hanko, K., Botti, S., &
Gilovich, T. (2008). Take it easy: Removing time constraints mitigates
choice overload. Paper presented at the 2008 meeting of the Association for
Consumer Research, San Francisco, CA.
Inbar,
Y., Gilovich, T., Pizarro, D. A., & Ariely, D.
(2008). Morality and masochism: Feeling guilt leads to
physical self-punishment. Paper presented at the 80th annual meeting
of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Inbar, Y., Hanko, K., Botti, S., &
Gilovich, T. (2008). When is too much choice too much to handle? Poster
presented at the Judgment and Decision Making pre-conference of the 9th annual meeting
of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Inbar, Y., & Critcher, C. (2007). Acting without thinking: Rage,
rashness, and moral evaluation. Poster presented at the 28th annual
meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Long Beach, CA.
Inbar, Y., &
Gilovich, T. (2007). Intuitions about intuition: When do we listen to our
gut? Poster presented at the Judgment and Decision Making pre-conference of
the 8th
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis,
TN.
Inbar, Y., &
Pizarro, D. (2007). Disgusting politics: Linking disgust sensitivity and
sociomoral conservatism. Paper presented at the 79th annual meeting
of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Inbar, Y., &
Gilovich, T. (2007). Emotional certainty causes more adjustment from
self-generated anchors. Poster presented at the 8th annual meeting
of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Inbar, Y., &
Gilovich, T. (2006). Counterfactual thinking and the
emotional impact of events over time. Poster presented at the 18th annual meeting
of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.
Inbar, Y., &
Gilovich, T. (2006). The persistence of shame and guilt.
Paper presented at the 78th
annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Hanko,
K., Inbar, Y., & Gilovich, T. (2006). When is too much choice too much
to handle? Paper presented at the 78th
annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Inbar, Y., &
Gilovich, T. (2006). Differential effects of fear and
anger on anchoring and adjustment. Poster presented at the Judgment
and Decision Making pre-conference of the 7th
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm
Springs, CA.
Inbar, Y., &
Gilovich, T. (2005). Zelig meets Zilstein: The effect of anxiety on nonconscious behavioral
mimicry. Poster presented at the 6th
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New
Orleans, LA.
Teaching
Courses Taught
Social Psychology for Managers and
Policy Analysts, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Fall
2009
The Individual in the Social World
(section of 15 students), Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Summer
2008
Guest Lectures
“Affective Primacy” and “Sex.”
Guest lectures for Psychology of Emotion, Department of Psychology, Cornell
University, Fall 2006
“How to be Happy.” Guest lectures
for Introduction to Personality Psychology, Department of Psychology, Cornell
University, Spring and Fall 2007
Teaching Assistantships,
Department of Psychology, Cornell University
Fall 2004 & 2005: Psychology and
the Law (with David Dunning)
Spring 2005: Introduction to
Social Psychology (with Tom Gilovich and Dennis Regan)
Spring 2006: Writing in the
Majors: Lab in Cognition and Perception (with David Field)
Fall 2006: Psychology of Emotion
(with David Pizarro)
Spring 2007: Introduction to
Personality Psychology (with Vivian Zayas)
Skill Development
Writing
in the Majors Graduate Teaching Seminar, Cornell University, Spring 2006