Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Internet and Virtual Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Organizational Behavior
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
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Yair Amichai-Hamburger |
Yair Amichai-Hamburger received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He is the director of the Research Center for Internet Psychology (CIP), based at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He has worked for many years as an industrial consultant, advising many leading organizations. He has written widely on the impact of the Internet on well-being. His first book, The Social Net: Human Behavior in Cyberspace, was published by Oxford University Press 2005 and his second book, Technology and Psychological Well-being, by Cambridge University Press in 2009. A completely revised, updated and extended second edition of The Social Net is due to be published shortly by Oxford University Press.
A link to the new book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Social-Net-Understanding-behavior/dp/019963954X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1357737488&sr=8-3
Dr. Amichai-Hamburger's awards include the following:
--AME (Academy of Management): Award as finalist for best paper entitled "The Power of Emotional Appeals in Promoting Organizational Change Programs" (with S. Fox)
--LIRT (Library Instruction Round Table, American Library Association): Award for the paper "Experiments in Digital Literacy" (with Y. Eshet-Alkali)
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Yair Amichai-Hamburger
Sammy Ofer School of Communications
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
46150 Herzliya
Israel
Phone: +972 9 9527649
Fax: +972 9 9527650