Prof. Talya Miron-Shatz

Head of the Bachelor of Business Administration program and head of the Institute for Medical Decision Making.

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About

A social psychologist specializing in medical decision making and digital health.

She has extensive experience in the fields of research and teaching in the academy as well as in industry – consulting to pharma companies, advertising agencies specializing in health, start-ups and health care corporations. Over sixty academic publications on medical decision making and happiness. She taught consumer behavior at the Wharton Business School (ranked number one in the world, 2011 – 2008).

Over fifty academic publications on medical decision making and happiness.

She taught consumer behavior at the Wharton Business School (ranked number one in the world) from 2008 to 2011.

She is a Full Professor at the Ono Academic College and a Visiting Researcher at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge.

Her book: Your Life Depends On It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health will be published by Basic Books in 2021.

Her personal website is: https://www.talyamironshatz.com

Education

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Prof. Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate, Princeton University (2005-2009).

Ph.D.

Psychology, The Hebrew University (2005).

M.A.

Psychology and Communication, The Hebrew University (2003) (with honors).

B.A.

Psychology, The Hebrew University (1996) (excellence).

Teaching Areas

Consumer behavior, psychological aspects of medical decision making.

Research interests

Decision-making, medical decision-making by patients and physicians, persistence in taking medication, understanding medical information and making decisions about choice of care, happiness and consumer behavior - evaluating experiences and evaluating products.

Selected Publications

All Publications in Google Scholar
Miron-Shatz, T. (2021) Your Life Depends On It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health , Basic Books, NY.
Grinshpun-Cohen, J., Miron-Shatz, T., Rhee-Morris, L., Briscoe, B., Pras, E., & Towner, D. (2015). A Priori Attitudes Predict Amniocentesis Uptake in Women of Advanced Maternal Age: A Pilot Study. Journal of health communication, 20(9), 1107-1113.
Grinshpun‐Cohen, J., Miron‐Shatz, T., Ries‐Levavi, L., & Pras, E. (2015). Factors that affect the decision to undergo amniocentesis in women with normal Down syndrome screening results: it is all about the age. Health Expectations, 18(6), 2306-2317. Impact factor: 2.852
Hanoch, Y., Miron‐Shatz, T., Rolison, J. J., Omer, Z., & Ozanne, E. (2015). Shared decision making in patients at risk of cancer: the role of domain and numeracy. Health Expectations, 18(6), 2799-2810.
Howe, R., Miron-Shatz, T., Hanoch, Y., Omer, Z. B., O’Donoghue, C., & Ozanne, E. M. (2015). Personalized Medicine Through SNP Testing for Breast Cancer Risk: Clinical Implementation. Journal of genetic counseling, 24(5), 744-751.
Konheim‐Kalkstein, Y. L., Whyte, R., Miron‐Shatz, T., & Stellmack, M. A. (2015). What are VBAC Women Seeking and Sharing? A Content Analysis of Online Discussion Boards. Birth, 42(3), 277-282.
Miron-Shatz, T., Bhargave, R., & Doniger, G. M. (2015). Milestone Age Affects the Role of Health and Emotions in Life Satisfaction: A Preliminary Inquiry. PloS one, 10(8), e0133254.

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