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Dr. Rotem Pick

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The Open University The Dorothy De Rothschild Campus One University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 43107, Israel
Office:972-9-7781437 Email:[email protected]

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2005-2011
Ph.D. (direct Ph.D. program), Social Psychology; Tel-Aviv University (TAU).
Title: The effect of psychological distance and construal level on global-local considerations in decision making. Advisor: Prof. Nira Liberman.
2001-2004
B.A., Psychology and Communication; TAU.
2005-2009
Graduate scholarship, Department of psychology, TAU.
2005-2009
Graduate scholarship, Prof. Nira Liberman, TAU.
2005-2009
Graduate scholarship, Prof. Dafna Lemish, TAU.
2008
Dean's Honors List, Faculty of Social Science, TAU, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

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Lemish, D. & Pick-Alony, R. (2014). The gendered nature of news consumption by children and youth. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 11(1), 174-198.

Pick-Alony, R., Liberman, N., & Trope, Y. (2014). Level of Construal and Psychological Distance Reduce Melioration. Journal of behavioral decision making, 27(4), 291-300.

Lemish, D., & Pick-Alony, R. (2013). Inhabiting two worlds: The role of news in the lives of Jewish and Arab children and youth in Israel. The International Communication Gazette. 76(2), 128-151.

Lemish, D., Ribak, R., & Alony, R. (2009). Israeli children online: From moral panic to responsible parenting. Megamot. 46(1-2), 137-163. (Hebrew).

Wakslak, S. J., Trope, Y., Liberman, N., & Alony, R. (2006). Seeing the forest when entry is unlikely: Probability and the mental representation of events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 135(4), 641-653.

Lemish, D., & Pick-Alony, R. (May, 2014). The gendered nature of news consumption by children and youth. Paper presented in the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Seattle, US.

Lemish, D., & Pick-Alony, R. (April, 2013). I was afraid he would do that to me”: Girls consuming news about sexual crimes - An Israeli case study. Paper presented in the inaugural conference of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Southern Illinois University (WGSS), Illinois, US.

Pick-Alony, R. (July, 2011). The effect of social distance on leaving a local maximum and seeking a global maximum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Stockholm, Sweden.

Lemish, D. & Pick-Alony, R. (May, 2011). The role of news in the lives of Israeli children. Paper presented in the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Boston, US.

Alony, R. & Liberman, N. (2009). Resolving Local-Global Conflicts Where Choice Frequency and Value Are Related: The Effect of Construal Level and Psychological Distance. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Tampa, Florida.

Alony, R. & Liberman, N. (2008). The effect of temporal distance on rejection thresholds in the Ultimatum Game. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), Opatija, Croatia.

Alony, R. & Liberman, N. (2007). Zooming in and Zooming out: How Perceptual Disfluency Affects Perceived Psychological Distance. Poster presented in the annual meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Memphis, Tennessee.

The effect of Construal Level on Global-Local conflicts in decision making. (2015). Invited Lecture. Department of education and psychology, The Open University.

The effect of Construal Level on Global-Local conflicts in decision making. (2011). Invited Lecture. Department of psychology, Tel Aviv University.

The effect of Construal Level on Global-Local conflicts in decision making. (2011). Invited Lecture. Lab conscious, Department of psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Teaching and teaching related Experience:
2012-present Academic coordinator and program consultant for graduated students in social psychology at the Department of Psychology and Education, The Open University.
2010-present Academic coordinator for BA students. Target courses: Judgment and Evaluation for Students of Management and Economics and The Psychology of the Intuitive Judgment. Department of Psychology and Education, The Open University.
2010-present Judgment and Evaluation for Students of Management and Economics (Lecturer), Department of Psychology and Education, The Open University.
2010-2011 Research Methods for graduate students (Lecturer). Department of communication, TAU.
2009-present Guided empirical research workshop in social cognition (Lecturer). Department of Psychology and Education, The Open University.
2010  Critical thinking (Lecturer). School of business, IDC Herzliya.
2009-2010 Research Methods for BA students (Tutor). Department of communication, TAU.
2007-present The Psychology of the Intuitive Judgment (Lecturer). Department of Psychology and Education, The Open University.
2007-2010 Research Methods (Tutor). Department of Psychology, TAU.
2005-2010 Psychological Distance (Teaching Assistant). Department of Psychology, TAU.
2007-2009 Introduction to Social Psychology (Lecturer). Department of Psychology, Achva College.
2008  Introduction to Social Psychology (Lecturer). Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2005-2007 Communication Technologies (Teaching assistant). Department of Communication, TAU.