- Office Address
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- Mailing Address
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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 100
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Profile
Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy and Faculty Chair
of the 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
Not Offered
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API-304
Judgment and Decision Making
Research
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
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Bohnet, Iris, Fiona Greig, Benedikt Herrman, and Richard
Zeckhauser. "Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman,
Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States." American Economic
Review 98.1 (2008): 294-310.
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Bohnet, Iris. "Is There Reciprocity in a Reciprocal-Exchange
Economy? Evidence of Gendered Norms from a Slum in Nairobi, Kenya."
Economic Inquiry 46.1 (January 2008): 77-83.
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Hong, Kessely, and Iris Bohnet. "Status and Distrust: The Relevance
of Inequality and Betrayal Aversion." Journal of Economic
Psychology 28.2 (April 2007): 197-213.
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Bohnet, Iris, and Yael Baytelman. "Institutions and Trust:
Implications for Preferences, Beliefs and Behavior." Rationality
and Society 19.1 (February 2007): 99-135.
- Book Chapters
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Bohnet, Iris. "Why Women and Men Trust Others." Economics and
Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field. Ed. Bruno
S. Frey and Alois Stutzer. MIT Press, 2007, 89-110.
- Magazine and Newspaper Articles
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Bohnet, Iris, and Fiona Greig. "Gender Matters in Workplace
Decisions." Negotiation 10.4 (April 2007): 4-6.