EDUCATION
Year
Degree
1966
B.A. Psychology
1970
M.A Social
Institution
Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University
and Industrial/ Organizational Psychology
1975
Ph.D Social
Bar-Ilan University
and Industrial/ Organizational Psychology
THESIS
M.A. Thesis (1970): Perception as a function of the attitude toward the person perceived (Hebrew).
Unpublished M.A. Thesis, Bar-Ilan University.
SUPERVISOR: Dr. Mordechai Eran
DISSERTATION
DR. (Ph.D.) Dissertation (1975): The influence of burden and diffusion of responsibility on decisionmaking under conditions of social interdependency (Hebrew). Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Bar-Ilan
University.
SUPERVISORS: Prof. Issac Lewin, and Dr. Yeuda Ben Meir.
PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS
Membership in Professional Societies
1970 –
Israeli Psychological Association
1982 –
American Psychological Association (APA) - Foreign Affiliate
1985 –
Academy of Management
1986 -
International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
1988 –
The Israeli Association for Organization Development (IPPA)
2004-
SIOP – The Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (APA)
Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer
Applied Psychology: An International Review
Academy of Management Review
Group & Organization Management
Human Relations
Journal of Business and Psychology
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Journal of Managerial Psychology
SIOP conference
Academy of Management conference
German – Israeli foundation
Israel Science Foundation
Administrative and Professional Roles
Year
1979-1981
Coordinator of Social-Industrial/Organizational Psychology Program, Department
of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University.
1980-1983
Representative of Bar-Ilan University in the Professional Committee of the
Testing and Evaluation Center.
1980-1983
Representative of Bar-Ilan University in the committee for developing entrance
tests for graduate studies in Psychology ("Michael").
1989-1992
Head, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University
1995- to Date Head of the library committee, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University.
2004 -to Date Member of the executive committee of Israeli Excellence in HRM Prize.
2005-2007 Member of the university student admittance committee.
2004-to Date Member of several committees of the Israeli Higher Education Council (MALAG).
2007-2008
2008 -
2007-2008
Member of the Doctoral Committee at the Social Science Dean Office
Member of the Doctoral Committee, Department of Psychology.
COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate:
B.A.
Introduction to Psychology
Statistics
Personnel Testing
Social Psychology
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Seminar – The psychology of money
Research Practicum – Decision making.
Graduate:
M. A.
Seminar: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Organizational Diagnosis
Personnel Testing
Performance Appraisal
The Psychology of Money.
Human Resources Management (Tafnit –Open University)
Ph.D.
Social Psychology (at Colorado State University)
General topics in psychology (at Bar-Ilan)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Public Activities
Year
1981-1984
committee.
Israeli Psychological Association - member of Social and Industrial section
1988
Chair – The first Department of Psychology Convention.
1994-1998
training.
Ministry of Transportation - member of a consulting board on new driver
1994-2000
Ministry of Defense - executive board member of the "Beit Marguza
Rehabilitation Center."
1995-2000
Israeli Assoc. of Organization development - chair of membership committee,
member of executive board
2000 –2008
Israeli Psychological Council - member of the I/O committee.
2003 –to Date
Israeli Assoc. of Organization Development (IPPA) - membership committee
member.
2009-
Member of training committee - IPPA
Development
2005- to Date
Developing simulation center for human resource management training and
research (with the laboratory of information in human resources – at the school
of business administration, Bar-Ilan University).
2005-to Date
Developing computerized test for diagnosing difficulty in adjusting to changes
(with Noa Sinai).
1985- to date
Development of Assessment Centers and testing devices for various
organizations
Journals
1. Fox, S. (1975). Promotion according to achievements. Organization and Administration,
134, 44-50. (Hebrew).
2. Fox, S. (1976). Intelligence and knowledge of arithmetic: A comparison between Russian
immigrants and veteran Israelis. Megamot, Behavioral Science Quarterly, 22, 288-298.
(Hebrew).
3. Fox, S. (1976). Analysis of the individualistic, competitive, and cooperative motives in nonzero-sum games. Psychological Reports, 39, 55-61.
4. Fox, S. (1979). Workers' apprehensions due to plant relocation. Psychological Reports, 45,
327-332.
5. Fox, S. (1980). Situational determinants in affiliation. European Journal of Social
Psychology, 10, 303-307.
6. Krausz, M., & Fox, S. (1981). Needed: Excellent engineer, not mediocre managers.
Personnel, Jan-Feb, 50-54.
7. Fox, S. (1981). Birth order, gender, and affiliation in various situations. Social Behavior
and Personality, 9, 97-100.
8. Krausz, M., & Fox, S. (1981). Two dimensions of realistic previews and their impact upon
initial expectations, expectation fulfillment, satisfaction, and intention to quit. Journal of
Occupational Behavior, 2, 211-216.
9. Fox, S., Haboucha, S., & Dinur, Y. (1981). The predictive validity of the 16PF against three
independent criteria of military performance. Educational and Psychological
Measurement, 41, 515- 521.
10. Fox, S., & Krausz, M. (1982). An extension of the realistic preview concept to various
career transitions. Higher Education, 11, 147-154.
11. Fox, S., & Krausz, M. (1983). A diagnosis of organizational diagnosis. Psychological
Documents, 13, 15.
12. Fox, S., Bizman, A., & Herrmann, E. (1983). The halo effect: Is it a unitary concept?
Journal of Occupational Psychology, 56, 289-296.
13. Bizman, A. & Fox, S. (1984). Managers' perception of the stability of workers' positive
and negative behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology, 69, 40-44.
14. Fox, S. (1984). The sociability aspect of extraversion as a situation-specific dimension.
Social Behavior and Personality, 12, 7-10.
15. Fox, S. (1985). Situational influences on the desirability of different objects of affiliation.
Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 4, 28-34.
16. Avni, A., Kipper, D.A., & Fox, S. (1987). Personality and leisure activities: An illustration
with chess players. Personality and Individual Differences, 8, 715-719.
17. Fox, S. & Krausz, M. (1987). Correlates of relocation intention and emotional responses
to an Israeli plant relocation. Journal of Occupational Behaviour, 8, 325-338.
18. Fox, S. & Feldman, G. (1988). Attention states and critical psychological states as
mediators between job dimensions and job outcomes. Human Relations, 41, 229-245.
19. Fox, S. & Bizman, A. (1988). Differential dimensions employed in rating subordinates,
peers, and superiors. Journal of Psychology, 122, 373-382.
20. Fox, S., & Arnon, I. (1988). Motion sickness and anxiety. Aviation, Space, and
Environmental Medicine, 59, 728-733.
21. Fox, S., & Dinur, Y. (1988). Validity of self-assessment: A field evaluation. Personnel
Psychology, 41, 581-592.
22. Fox, S., Bizman, A., & Hoffman, M. (1989). The halo effect: It really isn't unitary. Journal
of Occupational Psychology, 62, 183-188.
23. Fox, S., & Dinur. Y. (1989). Computerized testing: The state of the art. Megamot,
Behavioral Science Quarterly, 32, 197-217. (Hebrew).
24. Fox, S., Ben-Nahum, Z., & Yinon, Y. (1989). Perceived similarity and accuracy of peer
ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 781-786.
25. Krausz, M., & Fox, S. (1989). Plant relocation: An integration of survey findings and a
conceptual analysis. Journal of Organizational Change management, 2, 61-71
26. Fox, S. (1990). Development stages in the process of adaptation to change. Organization
Development in Israel, 2, 10-17. (Hebrew).
27. Fox, S. & Thornton G.C. III. (1993). Implicit Distribution Theory: The Influence of
Schematic perception of differentiation on actual ratings. Perceptual and Motor Skills,
76, 259-276.
28. Fox, S., Caspy, T., & Reisler, A. (1994). Variables affecting leniency, halo, and validity of
self-appraisal. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 67, 45-56.
29. Yinon, Y., Mayraz, A., & Fox, S. (1994). Age and false-consensus effect. Journal of Social
Psychology, 134, 717-725.
30. Fox, S., Levonai-Hazak, S., & Hoffman, M. (1995). The role of biodata and intelligence in
the predictive validity of assessment centers. International Journal of Selection and
Assessment, 3, 20-29.
31. Fox, S., Bizman, A., Hoffman, M., & Oren, L. (1995). The impact of variability in candidate
profiles on rater confidence and judgments regarding stability and job suitability. Journal
of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 68, 13-23.
32. Krausz, M., Brandvein, T., & Fox, S. (1995). Work attitudes and emotional responses of
permanent, voluntary, and involuntary temporary-help employees: An exploratory
study. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 44, 217-232.
33. Fox, S., Schmida, A., & Yinon, Y. (1995). Escalation behavior in domains related and
unrelated to decision-makers' academic backgrounds. Journal of Business and
Psychology, 10, 245-259.
34. Hamburger, Y.A., & Fox, S. (2000). Virtual business organizations on the internet: A new
organizational model. Megamot, Behavioral Science Quarterly, 40, 512-530. (Hebrew).
35. Fox, S., & Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2001). The power of emotional appeals in promoting
organizational change programs. Academy of Management Executive, 15 (4), 84-94.
36. Fox, S., & Hoffman, M. (2002). Escalation behavior as a specific case of goal directed
activity: A persistence paradigm. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 24, 273-285.
37. Fox, S., & Schwartz, D. (2002). Social desirability and controllability: Their effects on
criterion-related validity in computerized and paper and pencil personality
questionnaires. Computers in Human Behavior, 18, 389-410.
38. Krausz, M., Bizman, A., & Fox, S. (2002). Factors affecting post-relocation adaptation in a
case of entire plant relocation. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 17 (2), 80-94.
39. Amichai-Hamburger, Y., Wainapel, G., & Fox, S. (2002). "On the internet no one knows
I'm an introvert": Extroversion, neuroticism, and internet interaction. CyberPsychology
and Behavior, 5, 125-128.
40. Dayan, K., Kasten, R. & Fox, S. (2002). Entry-level police candidate assessment center: An
efficient tool or hammer to kill a fly? Personnel Psychology, 55, 827-849.
41. Fox, S., & Dayan, K. (2004) Framing and risky choice as influenced by comparison of one's
achievements with others: The case of investment in the stock exchange. Journal of
Business and Psychology, 18, 301-321.
42. Byrne, Z. S., Jueller-Hanson, R. A., Cardador, J, M., Thornton, G. C., Schuler, H., Frintrup,
A., & Fox, S. (2004). Measuring achievement motivation: Tests of equivalency for English,
German, and Israeli versions of the Achievement Motivation Inventory. Personality and
Individual Differences, 37, 203-217.
43. Fox, S., Bizman, A., & Garti, A. (2005). Is distributional assessment more effective than
the standard performance appraisal method? European Journal of Psychological
Assessment, 21, 165-172.
44. Fox, S., & Leshem L. (2005). Displeasure from disclosing information on financial matters
to different categories of others. Megamot. 44, 163 – 178. (Hebrew).
45. Fox, S., & Elraz-Shapira, Y. (2005). Perception of group variability and its relationship to
dispositional and situational need for closure. Current Psychology, 24 (4), 218-230.
46. Dayan, K., Fox, S., & Kasten, R. (2008). The preliminary employment interview as a
predictor of assessment center outcomes. International Journal of Selection and
Assessment, 16 (2), 102-111.
47. Fox, S., Bizman, A., & Huberman, O. ( 2009). Escalation of Commitment: The effect of
number and attractiveness structure of available investment alternatives. Journal of
Business and Psychology, 24 (4), 431-439.
48. Ben Shalom U., & Fox, S. (2009). Military psychology in the IDF: A perspective of
continuity and change. Armed Forces & Society, 36, 103-119.
49. Fox, S., & Haboucha, S. (2011). Assessment centers in Israel: Some practices and
perspectives. In N. Povah, & G. C. Thornton III (Eds.), Assessment Centres and
global talent management (pp. 453-469). UK: Gower.
50. Dayan, K., Fox., & Morag, M. (2013 in press). Validation of spouses violence risk
assessment inventory for police purposes. Journal of Family Violence. DOI
10.1007/s 10896-013-95474.
51. Falk, A., & Fox, S. (2013, in press).
Gender and ethnic compositions and their relationship to success in assessment
centers. Journal of Personnel Psychology.
BOOK REVIEWS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Fox, S. (1989). A Book Review: "An anatomy of management disease" by Reuven Shapira,
Tel-Aviv: Am-Oved, Ofakim. Megamot, Behavioral Science Quarterly, 32, 415-418.
(Hebrew).
Fox, S. ( 2013). Rerview of the book: Samuel Y. (2010) .Organizational Pathology : The
life and death of organizations Megamot, Behavioral Science Quarterly, 49. 192-195.
(Hebrew).
Books
Fox, S. (1998). The Psychology of Resistance to Change. Bar-Ilan University Press. (Hebrew)
(284 pages).
Conferences
FROM 2000
Fox, S. (2011). The interrelationship between academic and the field practice.
Presented at the meeting of senior psychologists of the Israeli Psychological Association.,
Tel Aviv, Israel.
Fox, S. (2011). Cognitive biases. Presented at a conference of the Israeli Association of
Organizational Development, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Fox, S. (2006). The interrelationship between academic and the field practice. Paper
presented at the meeting of the Israeli Association of Organizational Development, RamatGan, Israel.
Ben-Shalom, U., & Fox, S. (2006). Military Psychology in the IDF: A perspective of
continuity and change. APA Div 21, Div 19, & HFES Potomac Chapter Annual
Symposium on Applied Experimental Research. George Mason University, Fairfax,
VA.
Fox, S. (2005). New developments in the assessment center method. Paper presented at a
convention arranged by the IDF Department of Behavioral Sciences,Yehud, Israel.
Fox, S. (2004). Postmodernism and organizational development. Paper presented at the
meeting of the Israeli Association of Organizational Development, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Ben-Shalom, U., & Fox, S. (2004). Military psychologists in the IDF: A perspective of
continuity and change. Paper presented at the Inter-University Seminar of Armed
Forces and Society, Toronto, Canada.
Fox, S. (2004). Typical and maximal performance measures. Paper presented at a meeting
of IDF psychologists, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
Fox, S. (2004). Postmodernism and organizational psychology. Paper presented at a
meeting of IDF organizational psychologists, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Fox, S. (2004). Introducing organizational changes. Workshop presented to the general
managers of Israeli ministries, Jerusalem, Israel.
Fox, S. (2004). Resistance to change: Is it so common? Paper presented at a conference in
memory of Prof. Rami Sagie, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Fox, S. (2004). Dilemmas and challenges in psychological testing. Paper presented at a
meeting of IDF psychologists, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
Fox, S. (2003). A model of resistance to organizational change. Invited address to the
faculty and graduate students of the Department of Psychology, North Texas
University, Denton, Texas.
Fox, S. (2003). New approaches to performance appraisal. Paper presented at a conference
of human resource managers, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Fox, S. (2003). Escalation of commitment and the banking system. Paper presented at a
conference of Israeli bank managers, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Fox, S. (2003). Organizational justice in testing procedures. Paper presented at a
convention of military psychologists, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
Fox, S. (2003). New perspectives of human resource management. Paper presented at a
meeting of the IDF Manpower Division, Netanya, Israel.
Fox, S. (2002). Resistance to change in the educational system. Keynote speaker at the
conference of the Association of Nursery Teachers, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Fox, S. (2002). Resistance to change in the educational system. Paper presented at a
meeting of the Teachers Association of Northern Israel. Nahariya, Israel.
Fox, S. (2001). Resistance to organizational change: Applications to the change prospects
of academic libraries. Keynote speaker at the conference of the Israeli Librarian
Association, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Fox, S. (2001). A model of resistance to change. Paper presented to the faculty and
graduate students of CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Fox, S, (2001). Introducing organizational changes. Invited workshop to Ministry of Health
managers, Jerusalem, Israel.
Fox, S. (2001). Introducing and distributing innovations. Paper presented at a convention
of Israeli high-tech organizations, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Fox, S. (2001). New approaches in performance appraisal. Paper presented at a conference
of the Israeli Management Center (MIL), Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Fox, S. (2000). Resistance to organizational change. A workshop presented at a meeting of
the Israeli Psychological Association, Zichron Yaakov, Israel.
Fox, S. (2000). Resistance to change in the educational system. Paper presented at a
meeting arranged by the Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, Israel.
Fox, S. (2000). Introducing changes in the educational system. A workshop conducted at a
meeting of heads of Jewish studies schools abroad, Bar-Ilan University, RamatGan, Israel.
Fox, S. (2000). New performance appraisal methods. A symposium presented at a meeting
of Israeli Bank managers, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Research Fields
1. Organizational Change, Resistance to Organizational Change
2. Decision Making and Heuristics (Escalation, Sunk costs, the Effort heuristic)
3. Performance Appraisal and Social Perception
4. Personnel Selection and Classification (Particularly – psychological tests and
assessment center technique).
5. Psychology of Money
1986
The Fridrich Forderungsstung foundation, West Germany
$50000
2002
Fox and Hamburger article in the Academy of Management Executive
was nominated one of the three best papers published in the journal at
that year.
2009
Bar-Ilan award for excellence as a lecture.