Boaz Keysar (Hebrew: בועז קיסר) is the chair of the Cognition Program at the University of Chicago, and broadly researches communication, negotiation, and decision making.

[1][2] Keysar was born in Israel, and received a bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy from the Hebrew University in 1984.

[3][4] For his academic work, Keysar was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship while at Princeton University in 1985 and later on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1997.

[8][9] Keysar suggests that the framing effect in psychology disappears when encountering it in a foreign (non-native) language.

[10]: 246  One explanation of this disappearance is that a non-native language provides greater cognitive and emotional distance than one's native tongue.