Iris Bohnet

Professor of Public Policy
Director
Women and Public Policy Program
Office Address
Taubman-110A
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 100
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-5605
Fax: 617-496-6154
Email: Iris_Bohnet@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Suzan El-Rayess (617-496-9157)
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Profile

Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program, teaches courses on behavioral decision analysis and negotiation. A behavioral economist, her research combines insights from economics and psychology. Her research focuses on trust its determinants and its relevance for negotiation and for individual and collective decision making. She runs her experimental studies in different parts of the world, examining the determinants and effects of trust from a cross-cultural perspective. A Swiss citizen, she holds a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich. She spent a year as a Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She is married and has two children.

Courses

Fall

  • MLD-304 Judgment and Decision Making

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Bohnet, Iris. "Gender In Negotiation: Introduction to special issue." Negotiation Journal 24.4 (October 2008): 389-392.
    • Bohnet, Iris, and Hannah Riley Bowles, guest editors. "Special Section: Gender and Negotiation." Negotiation Journal 24.4 (October 2008): 389-540.
    • Greig, Fiona, and Iris Bohnet. "Exploring Gendered Behavior in the Field with Experiments: Why Public Goods are Provided by Women in a Nairobi Slum." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 70.1-2 (May 2009): 1-9.
  • Book Chapters
    • Bohnet, Iris. "Trust in Experiments." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Ed. Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
    • Bohnet, Iris, Benedikt Herrmann, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-015, June 2009.
  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Bohnet, Iris. "Pushing for Better Results." Negotiation Newsletter. August 2008.
    • Bohnet, Iris. "Benefitting from Reciprocity in Negotiation." La Tribune.fr. June 17, 2009.