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Selected Full Papers
Zeif, D., and Yechiam, E. (2022). Loss aversion (simply) does not materialize for smaller losses. Judgement and Decision Making, 17, 1015-1042.
Yechiam, E., and Zeif, D. (2022). The effect of methylphenidate and mixed amphetamine salts on cognitive reflection: A field study. Psychopharmacology, 239, 455-463.
Yechiam, E., and Yom-Tov, E. (2021). Unique Internet search strategies of individuals with self-stated autism. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23, e23829.
Achtypi, E., Ashby, N.J.S., Brown, G., Walasek, L., and Yechiam, E. (2021). The endowment effect and beliefs about the market. Decision, 8, 16-35.
Zeif, D., and Yechiam, E. (2020). Autism is not associated with poor or enhanced performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: A Meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 113, 440-447.
Yechiam, E. (2020). Robust consistency of choice switching in decisions from experience. Judgement and Decision Making, 15, 74-81.
Yechiam, E. (2019). Acceptable losses: The debatable origins of loss aversion. Psychological Research, 83, 1327-1339
Yechiam, E., Ben-Eliezer, D., Ashby, N.J.S., and Bar-Shaked, M. (2019). The acute effect of Hypericum Perforatum on short-term memory in healthy adults. Psychopharmacology, 236, 613-623.
Yechiam, E., Ashby, N.J.S., and Hochman, G. (2019). Are we attracted by losses? Boundary conditions for the approach and avoidance effects of losses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 45, 591-605.
Ashby, N.J.S., Yechiam, E., and Ben-Eliezer, D. (2018). The consistency of visual attention to losses and loss sensitivity across valuation and choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 1791-1809.
Ashby, N.J.S., Konstantinidis, E., and Yechiam, E. (2017). Choice in experiential learning: True preferences or experimental artifacts? Acta Psychologica, 174, 59-76.
Ashby, N.J.S., Rakow, T., and Yechiam, E. (2017). ‘Tis better to choose and lose than to never choose at all. Judgment and Decision Making, 12, 553-562.
Yechiam, E., Ashby, N.J.S., and Pachur, T. (2017). Who’s biased? A meta-analysis of buyer-seller differences in the pricing of risky prospects. Psychological Bulletin, 143, 543-563.
Yechiam, E., Abofol, T., and Pachur, T. (2017). The seller’s sense: Buying-selling perspective affects the sensitivity to expected-value differences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 197-208.
Ohana, D., Maayan, R., Delayahu, Y., Roska, P., Ponizovsky, A.M., Weizman, A., Yadid, G., and Yechiam, E. (2016). Effect of dehydroepiandrosterone add-on therapy on mood, decision making and subsequent relapse of polydrug users. Addiction Biology, 21, 885-894.
Ben-Eliezer, D., and Yechiam, E. (2016). Hypericum perforatum as a cognitive enhancer in rodents: A meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 6, 35700.
Yechiam, E., & Agay, N. (2016). Methylphenidate and cognitive performance. In V.R. Preedy (Ed.), The neuropathology of drug addictions and substance misuse 2: Recreational substances/stimulants, club and dissociative drugs, hallucinogens, and inhalants (pp. 139-159) . Academic press.
Yechiam, E., Retzer, M., Telpaz, A., and Hochman, G. (2015). Losses as ecological guides: Minor losses lead to maximization and not to avoidance. Cognition, 139, 10-17.
Yechiam, E., Zahavi, G., & Arditi, E. (2015). Loss restlessness and gain calmness: Durable effects of losses and gains on choice switching. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22, 1096-1103.
Yechiam, E., Rakow, T., and Newell, B.R. (2015). Super-underweighting of rare events with repeated descriptive summaries. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 28, 67-75.
Yechiam, E., and Hochman, G. (2014). Loss attention in a dual task setting. Psychological Science, 25, 494-502.
Agay, N., Yechiam, E., Carmel, Z., and Levkovitz, Y. (2014). Methylphenidate enhances cognitive performance in adults with poor baseline capacities regardless of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder diagnosis. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 34, 261-265.
Telpaz, A., and Yechiam, E. (2014). Contrasting losses and gains increases the predictability of behavior by frontal EEG asymmetry. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 149.
Yechiam, E., Telpaz, A., and Hochman, G. (2014). The complaint bias in subjective evaluations of incentives. Decision, 1, 147-160.
Ert, E., Yechiam, E., and Arshavsky, O. (2013). Smokers’ decision making: More than mere risk taking. PLOS ONE, 8(7), e68064.
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., and Hochman, G. (2013). Loss-aversion or loss-attention: The impact of losses on cognitive performance. Cognitive Psychology, 66, 212-231.
Yechiam, E., and Telpaz, A. (2013). Losses induce consistency in risk taking even without loss aversion. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26, 31-40.
Yechiam, E., and Aharon, I (2012; Eds.). The Neuroscience and Psychophysiology of Experience-Based Decisions. Special Topic in Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Psychology.
Yechiam, E., and Telpaz, A. (2011). To take risk is to face loss: A tonic pupillometry study. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 344
Koritzky, G., and Yechiam, E. (2011). On the value of non-removable reminders for behavioral modification: An application to nail-biting (Onychophagia). Behavior Modification, 35, 511-530
Yechiam, E., & Ert, E. (2011). Risk attitude in decision making: In search of trait-like constructs. Topics in Cognitive Science, 3, 166-186.
Hochman, G., & Yechiam, E. (2011). Loss aversion in the eye and in the heart: The Autonomic Nervous System’s responses to losses. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24, 140-156.
Yechiam, E., & Rakow (2011). The effect of foregone payoffs on choices from experience: An individual level modeling analysis. Experimental Psychology, 13, 1-13.
Hochman, G., Yechiam, E., and Bechara, A. (2010). Recency gets larger as lesions move from anterior to posterior locations within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Behavioural Brain Research, 213, 27-34.
Agay, N., Yechiam, E., Carmel, Z., and Levkovitz, Y. (2010). Non-specific effects of Methylphenidate (Ritalin) on cognitive ability and decision-making of ADHD and healthy adults. Psychopharmacology, 210, 511-519.
Ert, E., and Yechiam, E. (2010). Consistent constructs in individuals’ risk taking in decisions from experience. Acta Psychologica, 134, 225-232.
Koritzky, G., and Yechiam E. (2010). On the robustness of description and experience based decision tasks to social desirability. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23, 83-99.
Yechiam, E., Arshavski, O., Shamay-Tsoory, S.G., Yaniv, S., and Aharon, J. (2010). Adapted to explore: Reinforcement learning in Autistic Spectrum Conditions. Brain and Cognition, 72, 317-324.
Barron, G., and Yechiam, E. (2009). The coexistence of overestimation and underweighting of rare events and the contingent recency effect. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 447-460.
Yechiam, E., Druyan, M., and Ert, E. (2008). The effect of observing others on risk taking in decisions from experience. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 493-500.
Yechiam, E., and Busemeyer, J.R. (2008). Evaluating generalizability and parameter consistency in learning models. Games and Economic Behavior, 63, 370-394.
Erev, I., Ert., E & Yechiam, E. (2008). Loss aversion, diminishing sensitivity, and the effect of experience on repeated decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 575-597.
Yechiam, E., Kanz, J., Bechara, A., Stout, J.C., Busemeyer, J.R., Altmaier, E.M., and Paulsen, J. (2008). Neurocognitive deficits related to poor decision-making in people behind bars. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 44-51.
Sagi, I., and Yechiam, E. (2008). Amusing titles in scientific journals and article citation. Journal of Information Science, 34, 680-687.
Yechiam, E., and Ert, E. (2007). Evaluating the reliance on past choices in adaptive learning models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 51, 75-84.
Yechiam, E., Goodnight, J., Bates, J.E., Busemeyer, J.R., Dodge, K.A., Pettit, G.S., and Newman, J.P. (2006). A formal cognitive model of the Go/No-Go discrimination task: Evaluation and implications. Psychological Assessment, 18, 239-249.
Yechiam, E., and Busemeyer, J.R. (2006). The effect of foregone payoffs on underweighting small probability events. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19, 1-16.
Grosskopf, B., Erev, I., and Yechiam, E. (2006). Foregone with the wind: Indirect payoff information and its implications for choice. International Journal of Game Theory, 34, 285-302.
Yechiam, E., Busemeyer, J.R, Stout, J.C, and Bechara, A. (2005) Using cognitive models to map relations between neuropsychological disorders and human decision making deficits. Psychological Science, 16, 973-978.
Yechiam, E., Stout, J.C., Busemeyer, J.R., Rock, S.L., and Finn, P.R. (2005) Individual differences in the response to forgone payoffs: An examination of high functioning drug abusers. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 18, 97-110.
Yechiam, E., Barron, G., and Erev. I. (2005). The role of personal experience in contributing to different patterns of response to rare terrorist attacks. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49, 430-439.
Yechiam. E., and Busemeyer, J.R. (2005). Comparison of basic assumptions embedded in learning models for experience based decision-making. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 387-402.
Yechiam, E., Erev, I, and Parush, A. (2004). Easy first steps and their implication to the use of a mouse-based and a script-based strategy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10, 89-96.
Yechiam, E., Erev, I., Yehene, V., and Gopher, D. (2004). Melioration and the transition from touch-typing training to everyday use. Human Factors, 45, 671-684.
Yechiam, E., Erev, I., and Gopher, D. (2001). On the potential value and limitations of emphasis change and other exploration-enhancing training methods. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 7, 277-285.