Iris Bohnet

Professor of Public Policy
Faculty Chair,
Women and Public Policy Program
Office Address
Littauer-210
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 100
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-5605
Fax: 617-496-5747
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 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

  • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Bohnet, Iris, and Fiona Greig. "Gender Matters in Workplace Decisions." Negotiation 10.4 (April 2007): 4-6.