I am a Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, faculty of Data and Decision Sciences. I hold the Harry Lebensfeld Chair in Sciences. Also, I’m the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Psychology (JoEP) and president of the Eurpoean Association for Decision Making (EADM).
My research interests include:
1. Attentional and other cognitive effects of incentives
2. Individual differences in decision making
3. Cognitive enhancement
Recent and demi-recent papers on gains and losses:
- Yechiam, E., & Hochman, G. (2013). Losses as modulators of attention: Review and analysis of the unique effects of losses over gains. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 497-518.
- Yechiam E., & Hochman, G. (2013). Loss-aversion or loss-attention: The impact of losses on cognitive performance. Cognitive Psychology, 66, 212-231.
- Yechiam, E., Ashby, N.J.S., and Pachur, T. (in press). Who’s biased? A meta-analysis of buyer-seller differences in the pricing of risky prospects. Psychological Bulletin.
- Yechiam, E. (2019). Acceptable losses: The debatable origins of loss aversion. Psychological Research, 83, 1327-1339.
- Zeif, D., and Yechiam, E. (2022). Loss aversion (simply) does not materialize for smaller losses. Judgement and Decision Making, 17, 1015-1042.