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Employment
2008-Present: Post-Doctoral
Fellow, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, Harvard
University. Faculty advisor: Jennifer Lerner
2008-Present: 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: Tom 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
Association for
Psychological Science
Society for
Judgment and Decision Making
Society for
Personality and Social Psychology
Journal Articles
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.
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.
Manuscripts
Under Review or Revision
Critcher,
C., & Inbar, Y. (under revision). When
impulsivity illuminates moral character: The case of rashness.
Critcher, C., & Inbar, Y. (under review). 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., Cone, J., & Gilovich, T. (under review). People’s
intuitions about intuitive insight and intuitive choice.
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 homosexuals.
Manuscripts In
Preparation
Inbar, Y., & Gilovich, T. (in preparation). Choosing as you feel:
Mental states cue choice strategies.
Inbar,
Y., & Lerner, J. S. (in preparation). Disgust sensitivity predicts organ
donor status.
Inbar,
Y., Pizarro, D. A., Gilovich, T., & Ariely, D. (in preparation).
Morality and masochism: Feeling guilt leads to physical self-punishment.
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. Symposium
accepted for the 11th
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas,
NV. (Co-chair: David Pizarro).
Inbar,
Y., Pizarro, D. A., Gilovich, T., & Ariely, D. Morality and masochism: Feeling guilt leads
to physical self-punishment. Paper accepted for presentation 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 accepted for presentation
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