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Yaniv Hanoch

 

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Dr Yaniv Hanoch

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: B206, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Postal address: B206, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 233362
  • Email: yaniv.hanoch@plymouth.ac.uk


Qualifications & background

1999-2004: Ph.D. University of Haifa.


2001-2004: Max Planck Institute for Human development.

                   Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition.

                   Berlin, Germany.


2004-2006: UCLA/RAND Post-Doctoral Training Program in Public Health

                    Department of Health Services; UCLA School of Public Health.

 

 



Research interests
Bounded rationality; older adults decision-making; medical decision making; risk taking; offenders/ex-offenders risk taking and decision making 

Grants & contracts

Rice, T. (PI) & Hanoch, Y. (CO-PI).  Manacled Competition:  Limiting Health Insurance Choices for the Elderly. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. $270,000



 


Publications

Rolison, J. J., Hanoch, Y., & Miron-Shatz, T. (in press). Smokers: At risk for prostate cancer 
    but unlikely to screen. Addictive Behaviors

Gummerum, M., & Hanoch, Y. (2012). Altruism behind bars: Sharing, justice, perspective taking 
    and empathy among inmates. Social Justice Research, 25, 61-78.

Barnes,, A., Hanoch, Y., Wood, S., Liu, P-J, & Rice, T. (in press). One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish: 
    Effects of price frames, brand names, and choice set size in Medicare part D insruance plan        
    decisions. Medical Care Research and Review

Rolison, J. J., Hanoch, Y., & Miron-Shatz, T. (IN press). Understanding of lifetime risk: The role of numeracy and context. Health Psychology.

Rolison, J. J., Hanoch, Y., & Wood, S. (2012). Risky Decision Making in younger and older adults:
 The role of experience. Psychology & Aging, 27,129-140.

Hanoch, Y. & Gummerum, M. (2011). A comparison of the risk-taking behaviors of prisoners and
     non-prisoners. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24, 431-442

Hanoch, Y. & Rice, T. (2011). The economics of choice: Lessons from the U.S. health care market. 
     Health Expectations, 14, 105-112.

Hanoch, Y., Wood, S., Barnes, A., Liu, P. J., & Rice, T. (2011). Age, choice, and strategy selection:
     Searching for the right Medicare prescription drug plan. Health Psychology, 30, 719-727.

Wood, S., Hanoch, Y., Barnes, A., Cummings, J. & Rice, T. (2011). Choosing the right Medicare 
     drug plan: The effects of age, choice size, and numeracy. Psychology & Aging, 26, 295-307.

Himmelstein, M., Miron-Shatz, T., Hanoch, Y., & Gummerum, M. (2011). Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children: Parental usage, perception and trust in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.  Health, Risk & Society, 13, 451-468.

Wood, S. & Hanoch, Y. (2012). The impact of financial literacy on Medicare part D insurance 
     choice in Older Adults. In D. Lamdin (Ed.), Financial Decisions Across the Lifespan: Problems, 
     Programs, and Prospects (pp. 255-268). 

Miron-Shatz, T., Barron, G., Hanoch, Y., Gummerum, M. & Doniger, G. (2010). To give or not to
      give: Parental experience and compliance with the Food and Drug Administration warning about
      over-the-counter cold and cough medication usage. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 428-436.

Hanoch, Y, Gummerum, M., Miron-Shatz, T., & Himmelstein, M. (2010). Parents’ Decision following 
     the Food and Drug Administration recommendation: The case of Over-the-Counter Cough 
     and Cold Medication. Child: Care, Health & Development, 36, 795-804.

Pachur, T., Hanoch, Y., & Gummerum, M. (2010). Prospects Behind Bars: Analyzing Decisions under 
     Risk in a Prison Population. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 630-636

Gummerum, M., Hanoch, Y., Parsons, K., & Hummel, A. (2010). Moral judgment, emotion attribution, 
     and prosocial behavior in young children. Journal of Economic Psychology, 31, 25-34

Hanoch, Y, & Miron-Shatz, T. & Himmelstein, M. (2010). Genetic testing and risk interpretation: How 
     do women understand lifetime risk results? Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 116-123.

Hanoch, Y., Miron-Shatz, T., Cole, H., Himmelstein, M., & Federman, A. D. (2010). Choice, numeracy 
     and physicians-in-training performance: The case of Medicare part D. 
     Health Psychology, 29, 454-459.

Frosch, D. L., Saxbe, D., Tomiyama, J. A., Glenn, B., Low, C., Hanoch, Y., Motivala, S. J., & Meeker, 
     D.  (2010). Assessing the scholarly impact of Health Psychology: A citation analysis of three 
     editorial tenures from 1993 to 2003. Health Psychology, 29, 555-562.

Hanoch Y., & Rice T. (2010). Health psychology meets health economics: Can economic factors be 
     integrated into health psychology? In J. Suls, K. Davidson, & R. M. Kaplan (Eds.),
     Handbook of Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 290-302. Guilford Press.

Rice, T., Hanoch, Y., & Cummings, J. (2010). How Much Choice Do Seniors Want?: Survey Results on 
     the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 5, 437-457.

Cummings, J., Rice, T., & Hanoch, Y. (2009). Who Thinks that Part D is Too Complicated?: Survey 
     Results on the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. Medical Care Research and Review, 66, 
     97-115.

Tanius, B., Wood, S., Hanoch, Y., & Rice, T. (2009). Aging and Choice: Applications to Medicare Part 
     D. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 92-101.

Hanoch, Y., Rice, T., Cummings, J., & Wood, S. (2009). How Much Choice is Too Much?: The Case of 
     the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. Health Service Research, 44, 1157-1168.

Miron-Shatz, T., Hanoch, Y., Graef, D., & Sagi, M. (2009). Presentation format affects comprehension 
     and risk assessment: The case of prenatal screening. Journal of Health Communication, 14, 439-
     450. 

Rice, T., & Hanoch, Y. (2008). Can Consumers Have Too Much Choice?  Expert Review of 
     Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 8, 325-327.

Hanoch, Y. & Gummerum, M. (2008). What can health psychologists learn from health economics? 
     From monetary incentives to health policy programs. Health Psychology Review, 2, 2-19.

Gummerum, Y., Hanoch, Y., & Keller, M. (2008). When child development meets economic game 
     theory: An interdisciplinary approach to investigating social development. Human Development
     51, 235-261

Hanoch, Y., Gummerum, M., Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2007). Risk perception and consumption of over
     -the-counter drugs. British Medical Journal. Rapid Response.

Hanoch, Y. (2007). Terminally ill patients and volunteer support: Is it the right intervention? 
     Health Psychology, 26, 537-538.

Hanoch, Y., Katsikopoulos, K. V., Gummerum, M., & Brass, E. P. (2007). American and German 
     Students’ Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behaviors with Respect to Over-the-Counter Pain 
     Relievers. Health Psychology, 26, 802-806.

Hanoch, Y., Wood, S., and Rice, T. (2007). Bounded rationality, emotions and older adult decision 
     making: Not so fast and yet so frugal. Human Development, 50, 333-358.

Hanoch, Y., Johnson, J., & Wilke, A. (2006). Domain-specificity in experimental measures 
     and participant recruitment: An application to risk-taking behaviour. Psychological 
     Science, 17, 300-304.

Hanoch, Y. & Rice, T. (2006). Can Limiting Choice Increase Social Welfare?: The Elderly 
     and Health Insurance Choice. The Milbank Quarterly, 84, 37–73.

Hanoch, Y. (2005). One theory to fit them all: The search hypothesis of emotion revisited. 
     The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56, 135-145.

Muramatsu, R. & Hanoch Y. (2005). Emotion as a mechanism for bounded rational agents:
     The fast and frugal way. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26, 201-221.

Katsikopoulos, K. V., & Hanoch, Y (2005). Review of: Preference, Belief, and Similarity: 
     Selected Writings of Amos Tversky. Edited by Eldar Shafir, MIT Press. 
     The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 17, 151-153.

Hanoch, Y., & Paucher, T. (2004). Nurses as information providers: Facilitating 
     understanding and communication of statistical information.  Nurse Education Today
     24, 236-243.

Hanoch, Y., & Vitouch, O. (2004). When less is more: Information, emotional arousal and 
     the ecological reframing of the Yerkes-Dodson Law. Theory and Psychology, 14, 
     427-452.

Hanoch Y. (2004). Improving Doctor-Patient Understanding of Probability in 
     Communicating Cancer-Screening Test Findings. Journal of Health Communication
     9, 327-335.

Hanoch, Y. (2002). “Neither an Angel nor an Ant:” Emotions as an Aid to Bounded 
     Rationality.  Journal of Economic Psychology, 23, 1-25.

Hanoch, Y. (2002). Natural Frequencies and the Representation of Risk. International 
     Journal for Quality in Health Care, 14, 337.

Hanoch, Y. (2002). The Effects of Emotions on Bounded Rationality: A Comment on 
     Kaufman. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 49, 131-135.

Hanoch, Y. (2002). Review of: The value of economics: An Aristotelian perspective. Irene 
     van Staveren. Routledge: London, 2001. Journal of Economic Psychology, 23, 789-
     792.

Hanoch, Y., & Wallin, A. (2002). The “Wicked” and the “Kind.” Review of: Educating 
     Intuition. Robin M. Hogarth. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001. 
     Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 122-124.