Yechiam Eldad
Professor | Vice Dean for Graduate Studies
Professor Eldad Yechiam joined the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences in 2005. He received his Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology at the Technion in 2003. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Indiana University, Bloomington.
Prof. Yechiam’s area of work is decision making, learning, and behavioral economics. His main contributions are in the study of cognitive assymetries that result from different incentive structures, individual differences in decision making, and cognitive enhancement.
Prof. Yechiam currently serves as head of the Technion ethics committee for behavioral studies.
He is also editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Psychology and the elected president of the European Society for Decision Making (EADM).