Publications

Publications - Psychology Department, The Hebrew University, Israel
  1. 20 Feb 2024 Journal Article British Journal of Social Psychology

    Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts

    Maor Shani, Jonas R Kunst, Gulnaz Anjum, Milan Obaidi, Oded Adomi Leshem, Roman Antonovsky, Maarten van Zalk, Eran Halperin
    Abstract

    Previous research on group-based hope has predominantly focused on positive intergroup outcomes, such as peace and harmony. In this paper, we demonstrate that hope experienced towards group-centric political outcomes, such as a victory in a conflict and defeating the enemy, can be detrimental to peace. In Study 1, conducted among Israeli Jews, hope for victory over the

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  2. 16 Feb 2024 Journal Article Iscience

    Frequency-specific contributions to auditory perceptual priors: Testing the predictive-coding hypothesis

    Abstract

    Perceptual priors formed by recent stimuli bias our immediate percept. These priors, expressing our implicit expectations, affect both high- and low-level processing stages. Yet, the nature of the inter-level interaction is unknown. Do priors operate top-down and bias low-level features toward recently experienced objects (predictive-coding hypothesis), or are low-level

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  3. 13 Feb 2024 Journal Article Political Psychology

    A group that grieves together stays together: Examining the impact of Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel on affective polarization

    Tamar Gur, Shahar Ayal, Magnus Wagner, Eli Adler, Eran Halperin
    Abstract

    Affective polarization is defined as the tendency to dislike, distrust, and maintain hostile attitudes towards supporters of other political parties or ideologies. In its extreme form, affective polarization may pose a severe threat to these groups' cohesion, functionality, and existence. The current study explored the role of sadness, elicited by memorial days, in

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  4. 9 Feb 2024 Journal Article Journal of Psychiatric Research

    Clinical and cognitive insight in panic disorder: phenomenology and treatment effects in internet cognitive behavior therapy

    Abstract

    Clinical observations suggest that individuals with panic disorder (PD) vary in their beliefs about the causes of their panic attacks. Some attribute these attacks to psychological factors, while others to physiological or medical factors. These beliefs also extend to whether individuals perceive panic attacks as dangerous. In other areas of psychiatric nosology, these

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  5. 6 Feb 2024 Preprint Research Square

    Fixations durations on familiar items are longer due to attenuation of exploration

    Tal Nahari, Eran Eldar, Yoni Pertzov
    Abstract

    Previous studies have shown that fixations on familiar stimuli tend to be longer than on unfamiliar stimuli, putatively due to ongoing retrieval of memory about familiar stimuli. Here, we hypothesized that extended fixations are in fact due to a lesser need to explore an already familiar stimulus. Participants gaze was tracked as they tried to encode or retrieve a

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  6. 6 Feb 2024 Journal Article Cortex

    Reduced categorical learning of faces in dyslexia

    Abstract

    The perception of phonological categories in dyslexia is less refined than in typically developing (TD) individuals. Traditionally, this characteristic was considered unique to phonology, yet many studies showed non-phonological perceptual difficulties. Importantly, measuring the dynamics of cortical adaptation, associated with category acquisition, revealed a broadly

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  7. Feb 2024 Journal Article Emotion

    Better relationships do not always feel better: Social relationships interact in predicting negative emotions in early adolescence

    Yael Millgram, Maya Tamir, Sagit Bruck, Asher Ben-Arieh
    Abstract

    How negatively young adolescents feel is central to their well-being. Intuitively, better social relationships should be linked to less negative emotions. This study tested this assumption, using a sample of over 80,000 young adolescents from 32 countries (ages 10–12). Inconsistent with the notion that better social relationships are always related to better emotional

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  8. 1 Feb 2024 Journal Article Human Brain Mapping

    Sniffing out meaning: Chemosensory and semantic neural network changes in sommeliers

    Manuel Carreiras, Ileana Quiñones, H Alexander Chen, Laura Vázquez-Araujo, Dana Small, Ram Frost
    Abstract

    Wine tasting is a very complex process that integrates a combination of sensation, language, and memory. Taste and smell provide perceptual information that, together with the semantic narrative that converts flavor into words, seem to be processed differently between sommeliers and naïve wine consumers. We investigate whether sommeliers' wine experience shapes only

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  9. 29 Jan 2024 Journal Article Nature Human Behaviour

    Five creative ways to promote reproducible science

    Josefina Weinerova, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Roni Tibon
    Abstract

    The importance of reproducible scientific practices is widely acknowledged. However, limited resources and lack of external incentives have hindered their adoption. Here, we explore ways to promote reproducible science in practice.

  10. 20 Jan 2024 Journal Article European Economic Review

    Cooperation, punishment, and group change in multilevel public goods experiments

    Kasper Otten, Vincent Buskens, Wojtek Przepiorka, Boaz R Cherki, Salomon Israel
    Abstract

    Peer punishment is regarded as an important element in sustaining human cooperation for public good provision. Many behavioral experiments have shown that public good provision is higher if cooperation norms can be enforced by peer punishment. However, these experiments predominantly focus on single-group public goods, in which people have to choose between their private

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