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Name: Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen Date (November, 2009)
CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
• Personal Details
Name: Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen
Date and place of birth: 8/8/1969, Israel
Regular military service (dates): no military service
Address and telephone number at work: Ariel, 03-9076502
Address and telephone number at home: Sha'arei Tikva, Hate'ena 6, tel. 050-2498585
• Education
B.A. - 1989-1992 – Ben Gurion University – Behavioral Sciences
M.A. - 1993-1996 – Tel Aviv University – Organizational Behavior
Name of advisor: Prof. Dan Zakay
Title of thesis: Compensatory model for decision
making
Ph.D. 1996-2002 – Tel Aviv University – Department of Sociology
Name of advisor: Prof. Yochanan Peres
Title of thesis: Mate Choice Preferences: Sociobiology
and Rational Choice Theory as competing and
complementary explanations
• Employment History
2003-today,Lecturer,Ariel University Center
2000-2003, (except 2001),Tutor,Ariel University Center
2000-2003, Lecturer, Ono Academic College
1999-2003, Lecturer, College of Administration
1999-2001, Tutor, Tel Aviv University
2000-2001, Tutor, Open University
1997-1998, Teaching Assistant, Tel Aviv University
• Professional Activities
(a) Positions in academic administration
2003-today – member of teaching committee - the Department of Economics and
Business Administration, Ariel University Center
2004-2008- marketing area coordinator in the Department of Economics and Business
Administration, Ariel University Center
2009- member of the discipline committee for students, Ariel University Center
(b) Significant professional consulting
1996- The Unit of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University –
Educational consultant
(c) Membership in professional/scientific societies
1996-2002 – Evolution and Human Behavior society
1999-today- Israeli Sociological Association
2004-today- ACR- Association for Consumer Research
• Educational activities
Courses taught
Seminar- Love, couple hood and sexuality in the modern society - B.A. – Tel Aviv University (jointly with Prof. Peres) , 1998-2001
Seminar-Business Administration in Israel- B.A., Ariel University Center, 2003-today
Organizational behavior- B.A., Ariel University Center and Ono academic college, 2000-today
Introduction to Behavioral Sciences- B.A., Ariel University Center and Ono academic college, 2000-today
Consumer Behavior- B.A., Ariel University Center and College of Administration, 2000-today
Services Marketing- B.A., Ariel University Center, 2003-today
Descriptive Statistics-B.A., Ariel University Center, Open University, College of Administration and Ono academic college, 1998-2008
Inductive Statistics-B.A., Ariel University Center, Open University, College of Administration and Ono academic college, 1998-2008
Quantitative methodology- B.A., Ariel University Center and Tel Aviv University , 1998-2008
• Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships
Honors, Citation Awards
1995- Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Management - excellence award
1998- Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Social Sciences - excellence award
• Scientific Publications
Bokek-Cohen, Y., & Peres Y., (2006), Mate Selectivity: an empirical confrontation of evolutionary psychology with marriage market theory, Social Issues in Israel, Vol. 2 (Hebrew).
Bokek-Cohen, Y., & Davidowitz, N., (2008), Beautiful ratings: are female students more influenced from the physical appearance of the lecturer? Dapim: A Journal for Educational Research, Mofet Institute (Hebrew).
Bokek-Cohen, Y., & Greenberg, D., (2008), Implementing Corporate Governance: Mandatory or Voluntary? The Accountant, Vol. 11 (Hebrew).
Bokek-Cohen, Y., & Greenberg, D., (2009), The moral perceptions of institutional investors in Israel- between stakeholders and stockholders, The Accountant, Vol. 13 (Hebrew).
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2008), Tell her she's wrong! Triangulation as a spousal influence
strategy, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 25 (4), Spring-Summer.
Bokek-Cohen, Y.,Peres, Y., & Kanazawa, S., (2008), Rational Choice and Evolutionary Psychology as explanations for mate selectivity, Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, May 2008.
Bokek-Cohen, Y. & Davidovitch, N., (2008), Beauty in the classroom: are female
students more influenced from male professors' appearance? Journal of Education and Human Development, Vol. 2, Issue 1.
Bokek-Cohen, Y. & Davidovitch, N., (2009),Eve or Lillith? The view of women's physical
attractiveness in Jewish sources: A critical perspective, Sociological Papers, Vol.14(in press).
Bokek-Cohen, Y. & Davidovitch, N., (2009), The beauty premium in the academic world:
A cross-cultural perspective, The Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning, November 2009 (in press).
Bokek-Cohen, Y. (2010). Marital power bases as predictors of spousal influence strategies in a vacation purchase decision. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 4(3) (in press).
Bokek-Cohen, Y., & Lissitsa, S., (2010), Sex: The Power of the Powerless? The Use of Sex as a Spousal Influence Strategy in Vacation Purchase Decisions, Asian Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Vol. ???, in press.
Lissitsa, S., & Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2010), Enhancing Market Effectiveness by Segmenting Immigrant Sectors into Sub-Groups according to Socio-cultural Adjustment Patterns, Marketing Bulletin, Vol. ???, in press.
Chapters in books
Bokek-Cohen, Y. & Davidovich, N., (2008), Beauty and teaching evaluation: a
comparison between female and male college professors, in V. Lamanauskas
(Ed.) Problems of Education in the 21th century, Scientific Methodological
Center "Scientia Educologica", Lithuania.
Bokek-Cohen, Y. & Davidovich, N., (2009), Beauty and gender in teaching ratings: the impact of the physical appearance of the professor on his teaching ratings, In Hertz-Lazarowitz, R., and Oplatka, I., (Eds.), Gender and Ethnicity in higher education in Israel, Pardes Pub. Co. and Haifa University.
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2008), Corporate Governance in Israel: attitudes of public investors towards its content and way of implementation, Publications of the Joseph Kasierer institute for research in accounting, Tel Aviv University.
Chapters in collective volumes
Bokek-Cohen, Y. & Davidowitz, N., (2007), Beauty in the Classroom: Are female
students more influenced by male Professors' appearance? Proceedings of
the 4th International conference "Contemporary Issues in Higher
Education: Pedagogical Aspects of Emerging Methodologies in
Higher Education", September 3-6,2007.
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2008), Tell her she's wrong! Triangulation as a spousal influence
strategy, European Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. VIII.
Bokek-Cohen Y. Davidovich. N. (2009). Teaching Quality Assessment in a Cross-Cultural Context: The Potential Bias of Physical Appearance. 6th International Conference. Excellence in Academia: Assessment of Faculty Research, Teaching, and Community Service. September 1-3 2009, Ariel. Israel. Pp. 44-55.
Davidovitch, N. Bokek-Cohen. Y. & Litman-Ovadia. H. (2009). Teaching quality assessment in a multi-cultural academic institution: The effect of cultural similarity of students and instructors? 6th International Conference. Excellence in Academia: Assessment of Faculty Research, Teaching, and Community Service. September 1-3 2009, Ariel. Israel. Pp. 99-119.
Unrefereed professional articles and publications
Peres, Y., & Bokek, Y., (1998), Mate choice among human beings, Almost 2000, Vol. 18. (Hebrew)
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2003), Is beauty perception innate or cultural dependent? Behive, Vol. 6, January
2003. (Hebrew)
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2003), Passion and sexual violence- biological determinism? Behive, Vol. 7, June
2003. (Hebrew)
Bokek-Cohen, Y., & Davidovitz, N., (2008), Beauty in the Classroom: Are Female Students More
Influenced by Male Professors’ Appearance?, Jewish Educational Leadership
Journal, Spring 2008.
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2009), The Evolution of beauty, Hebrew Psychology, July 2009. (Hebrew)
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2009), Trends of individualization in Israeli society, published in 'Ha'aretz',
16.08.09. (Hebrew)
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2009), Trends of individualization in Israeli society, Hebrew Psychology,
September 2009. (Hebrew)
Bokek-Cohen, Y., (2009), The Psychological and social background of rapists, Hebrew Psychology,
November 2009. (Hebrew)
• Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars not followed by Published Proceedings
(a) Presentation of papers at conferences/meetings
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Nitza Davidovitch. 2009. "Teaching Quality Assessment in a Cross-Cultural Context: The Potential Bias of Physical Appearance". 6rd International Conference. Excellence in Academia: Assessment of Faculty Research, Teaching, and Community Service, Ariel,. Israel.
Nitza Davidovitch, Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen & Hadassa Litman-Ovadia. 2009. "Teaching quality assessment in a multi-cultural academic institution: The effect of cultural similarity of students and instructors". 6rd International Conference. Excellence in Academia: Assessment of Faculty Research, Teaching, and Community Service, Ariel, Israel.
Nitza Davidovich and Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, 2009, "Eve or Lillith? A gender perspective of the Jewish view of women's beauty", The 6th annual international conference of 'Kolech' organization, Jerusalem, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Sabina Lissitsa, 2009, "Sex- the power of the powerless: the use of sex as a spousal influence strategy", The Annual meeting of the 'family Section' of the Israeli Sociological Association, Rishon Le'tzion, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Sabina Lissitsa, 2009, "The impact of the social network on spousal influence strategies among Israeli couples", The 40th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Rishon Le'tzion, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, 2009, "Objective and subjective marital power", The 40th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Rishon Le'tzion, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Nitza Davidowitz, 2008, "Beauty and teaching ratings", The Annual conference of the Ministry of Education for consultants, Haifa, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen,2007, "Tell her she's wrong! Triangulation as a spousal influence strategy", European ACR Conference (Association for Consumer Research), Milan, Italy.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Nitza Davidowitz, 2007, "Beauty in the Classroom: Are female students more influenced by male Professors' physical attractiveness?", Contemporary Issues in Higher Education: Pedagogical Aspects of Emerging Methodologies in Higher Education, Ariel, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Darya Ma'oz, 2007, "Hypergamic mate selectivity in Israeli society, The Annual Conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Achva College, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, 2007, "Triangulation as a spousal influence strategy during couple purchasing decision processes", The 38th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Haifa, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Nitza Davidowitz, 2007, "The impact of the physical appearance of professors on their teaching ratings", The 38th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Haifa, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, 1999, "Market Theory and Mate Choice Decision Strategy", the Annual Conference of the ISS (International Sociological Society), Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, 1999, "Gender differences in mate choice decision strategy", The 30th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Rishon Le'tzion, Israel.
(b) Chairman of sessions in conferences
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, 2009, chairman of the session "Cooperation and conflict in couple relationships", The 40th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Rishon Le'tzion, Israel.
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, 2008, chairman of the session "The challenge of parenthood in the 21st century", The 39th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Tel Aviv, Israel.
(c) Seminar presentations at universities and institutions
2004, "Mate Choice and the marriage market",
Invited Seminar for Clinical Psychologists, Sorasky Tel Aviv Hospital.
2005, "Mate choice and marriage market theory",
Faculty seminar of the department of Economics and Business Administration,
The College of Judea and Samaria.
2008, "The impact of the physical appearance of professors on their teaching ratings", Faculty seminar of the department of Economics and Business Administration,
Ariel University Center.
• Research Grants
2006, R&D Center for Samaria and Jordan Rift, Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen as principal and only investigator,
"Influence strategies and marital power in couple purchasing decisions", one year grant, $7500.
2006, Kassierer Institute for research in accounting, Tel Aviv University, Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Doron Greenberg both as principal investigators, "The impact of institutional investors' moral perceptions on their willingness to implement corporate governance", one year, $4250.
2009, R&D Center for Samaria and Jordan Rift, Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen as principal and only investigator,
"The marriage market in the Samaria", one year, $1850.
• Synopsis of research
My research areas include mate choice and mate preferences among secular and religious jewish singles, marital power, spousal influence strategies in purchasing decisions.
• Present Academic Activities
- The marriage market in the Samaria, expected to be completed in April 2010
- Consumer behavior of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (together with Sabina Lissitsa)
-Intermarriage of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union with native Israelis (together with Sabina Lissitsa).
Books and articles to be published
At these days I am editing a book which is a collection of papers about the integration of Former Soviet Union immigrants in Israel (jointly with Dr. Sabina Lissitsa). We collected 15 papers from experts in various aspects of integration in Israel, and we are currently in the process of finding monetary sources.
Papers Submitted for publication
Marital Power Revisited:
The Importance of Distinguishing between “Objective” and “Subjective” Marital Power
Submitted to 'Sociological Focus'
The Impact of Subjective Marital Power Balance
on Family Purchase Decision Process
Submitted to 'Journal of Family Issues'
Spousal Influence Strategies in the Purchase Decision Process:
An Ecological Perspective
Submitted to 'Journal of Comparative Family Studies'
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting:
the view of human beauty in Jewish sources
Submitted to 'Mo'ed'
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting:
Beauty evaluation by women and men
Submitted to 'Akdamot'(Hebrew)
The Challenge of Improving Teaching in a Globalizing World
Submitted to 'Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education'