Amnon Rapoport

Amnon Rapoport (1936-2022) was an Israeli-born quantitative psychologist who was the Eller Professor Emeritus of Management and Organizations at the Eller College of Management[1] at the University of Arizona. His research focused on experimental studies of interactive decision-making behavior.[2] He died on December 6, 2022 after more than six decades of academic teaching, research, and service.

Amnon Rapoport
Born
Israel
EducationQuantitative Psychology (Ph.D.)
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Haifa University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Biography

Rapoport received his doctoral degree in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1965.[2] He was a distinguished professor of management and a highly cited scholar in the social sciences.[3] Rapoport has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Management Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, American Economic Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Marketing Science, Psychological Review, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He was best known for studying human decisions in social and interactive contexts with experimental and quantitative methods.[4]

In his most recent work, Rapoport was interested in experimental studies of interactive decision making behavior, including common pool resource dilemmas, dynamic pricing, fair cost-sharing allocation, route choice in traffic networks, and sequential search by committees. [2] He collaborated with David Budescu.

Selected publications

Authored books

Edited books
  • Rapoport, A., & Zwick, R. (2005). Experimental Business Research Vol. II and III. Springer[6]

Books about Rapoport
  • Budescu, D. V., Erev, I., & Rami, Z. (1999). Games and Human Behavior: Essays in Honor of Amnon Rapoport. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.[7] [8]

References
  1. "University of Arizona Profiles: Amnon Rapoport". Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  2. "CV Amnon Rapoport". Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. "Google Scholar Amnon Rapoport". Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. Budescu, David V; Erev, Ido; Zwick, Rami, eds. (2019). Abstract of Games and Human Behavior: Essays in Honor of Amnon Rapoport. Psychology Press. doi:10.4324/9781315805740. ISBN 9781315805740. S2CID 203429024. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  5. Keisler, Jeffrey (1991). "Experimental Studies of Interactive Decisions by Amnon Rapoport". Interfaces (Book Review). 21 (4): 157–158. JSTOR 25061516.
  6. Normann, Hans-Theo (2006). "Amnon Rapoport and Rami Zwick (Eds), Experimental Business Research Vol. II and III". Journal of Economic Psychology (Book Review). 27 (6): 811–812. doi:10.1016/j.joep.2006.05.001.
  7. Budescu, David V.; Erev, Ido; Zwick, Rami (1999). Games and Human Behavior: Essays in Honor of Amnon Rapoport. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  8. Freidman, Daniel (2000). "Psychological Economics in the late 1990s: Games and Human Behavior: Essays in Honor of Amnon Rapoport". The American Journal of Psychology (Book Review). 113 (1): 147–149. doi:10.2307/1423466. JSTOR 1423466.
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