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Shai Davidai | |
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| שי דוידאי | |
| Born | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Title | Assistant Professor of Business |
| Academic background | |
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| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Gilovich |
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Shai Davidai (שי דוידאי) is an assistant professor of business at Columbia Business School.[1] He earned a B.A. in Psychology and Cognitive Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009, and a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from Cornell University in 2015. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs from 2015-16, and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, from 2016-19.
Early life
[edit]Davidai is Jewish, and was born in Ramat Gan, Israel.[2][3][4] His father was born in Haifa, his mother was born in Givatayim, and his grandfather was born in Haifa, Palestine.[4]
Education
[edit]Davidai earned a B.A. in Psychology and Cognitive Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Israel, in 2009.[1][5] Davidai moved to the United States in 2010, and earned a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from Cornell University, in 2015.[1][5][6] Cornell Professor Thomas Gilovich was his graduate school advisor.[1]
Career
[edit]After graduate school, Davidai worked for a year as a post-doctoral researcher at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, from 2015-16.[1] He then worked for three years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, from 2016-19.[1][5]
Since 2019, Davidai has worked at Columbia Business School, where he is an assistant professor of business.[1] His research and work focus on everyday judgments by people of themselves, other people, and society.[1] He examines the psychological forces that form, distort, and bias people’s views of the world.[1] He also looks at how these influence people’s judgments, preferences, and choices.[1]
His work has been published in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.[1] Davidai's research has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker, and podcasts such as Freakonomics Radio.[1]
Accolades
[edit]In 2020, Davidai was listed as a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science (APS).[1]
In 2023, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the "Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors."[1]
Columbia University protests
[edit]Davidai opposes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and supports the creation of a Palestinian state.[2] He considers himself pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian, but anti-terror, and a liberal leftist.[7] He is of the view that extremism often comes from idealism that is not accompanied by practical experience, and is concerned about young generations being uninformed.[2] He advocates for empathetic and peaceful campus discourse to deal with conflicts and foster understanding.[2] He has been critical of Columbia University’s response to antisemitism on its campus.[8]
Davidai said that in the wake of the October 7th Massacre in 2023, he approached the Columbia Business School dean to alert her to a planned pro-Hamas protest on campus, and met with the school president and directed her attention to a letter by the pro-Hamas organizations calling October 7 a historic day.[6] He said that he was told not to worry--that the police would be brought in, but wondered why if it was felt that there was danger requiring the presence of the police, an appeasement approach would be taken in the first instance.[6]
He then called on the school administration to condemn Hamas, to no avail.[6] Despite the fact that it had condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Boko Haram’s kidnapping of Nigerian girls, and the like.[6]
Davidai said that Columbia's strategy had been to ignore the matter and wait for it to go away.[6] And then to "run the clock till winter break," and then to "run the clock to the spring semester," and then to "run the clock till graduation."[6] He questioned the efficacy of the approach.[6]
Davidai wrote an open letter to every parent in America, warning them about antisemitism at universities, and criticized university leadership for supporting pro-terror campus organizations.[2][7] He wrote: "We would never allow the KKK to march on our campus,. We would never allow a pro-ISIS demonstration on our campus. Can you imagine, in the city that had to endure 9/11 ... can you imagine that here we have pro-terror student organizations?".[7] His letter received 250,000 views on YouTube.[2][9]
He organized a peaceful sit-in on the Columbia University campus, but it faced resistance from university administrators.[2] Davidai's speeches have gone viral; in them he speaks of what he feels is the need for immediate action against hate speech and antisemitic activities.[2] In April 2024, he confronted Columbia Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway over the deactivation of his ID card, which prevented him from accessing the Columbia main campus.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Kristy Bleizeffer (June 5, 2023). "2023 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Shai Davidai, Columbia Business School," Poets & Quants.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Harri Haworth (October 17, 2024). "40 Facts About Shai Davidai," Facts.net.
- ^ Troy Closson (April ). "Scenes of Protests at College Campuses; The crackdown at Columbia this month led to more campus demonstrations and hundreds of arrests so far," The New York Times.
- ^ a b Shai Davidai (September 17, 2024). "I was born in Ramat Gan...," Twitter (X).
- ^ a b c "Shai Davidai," Columbia Business School.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Judy Berger (May 30, 2024). "WJC ‘Israel Connection’ Series Features Columbia Professor Shai Davidai," Jewish Link.
- ^ a b c Sharon Otterman (October 24, 2023). "Columbia University Postpones a Fund-Raiser as Divisions Over War Deepen," The New York Times.
- ^ Katherine Rosman (April ). "On Columbia’s Campus, a Protest Encampment Grows and Tensions Flare; On a day the university president asked students to stay home, a tent city on a campus lawn kept growing, protesters met in tense confrontations and police and politicians converged to weigh in," The New York Times.
- ^ Shai Davidai (October 2023)/ "An Open Letter to Every Parent in America," YouTube.
External links
[edit]- Merle van den Akker (Jul 3, 2022). "Interview with Shai Davidai," Money on the Mind