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Overview

Eldad Yechiam is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on decision sciences, economics, econometrics and finance, and social sciences. Within these fields, their work spans subfields such as general decision sciences, economics and econometrics, cognitive neuroscience, safety research, and clinical psychology.

The topics explored in their research highlight decision-making and behavioral economics, economic and environmental valuation, experimental behavioral economics studies, autism spectrum disorder research, forecasting techniques and applications, behavioral health and interventions, and behavioral and psychological studies.

Yechiam's frequent collaborators include Dana Zeif, Nathaniel J. S. Ashby, Elena Achtypi, Gordon D. A. Brown, and Lukasz Walasek.

They have published in multiple venues, with numerous contributions to:

  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Decision
  • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Yechiam are:

  • Revisiting the effect of incentivization on cognitive reflection: A meta-analysis, 2022, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Other notable works, co-authored by frequent collaborators, include:

  • Autism is not associated with poor or enhanced performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: A Meta-Analysis, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Loss aversion (simply) does not materialize for smaller losses, 2022, Judgment and Decision Making
  • The endowment effect and beliefs about the market., 2020, Decision
  • At the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Economic Psychology: Standards, practices, and challenges, 2020, Journal of Economic Psychology

Best Publications

  • Using Cognitive Models to Map Relations Between Neuropsychological Disorders and Human Decision-Making Deficits

    Eldad Yechiam;Jerome R. Busemeyer;Julie C. Stout;Antoine Bechara

  • Losses as Modulators of Attention: Review and Analysis of the Unique Effects of Losses over Gains.

    Eldad Yechiam;Guy Hochman

  • Iowa Gambling Task in schizophrenia: A review and new data in patients with schizophrenia and co-occurring cannabis use disorders

    Serge Sevy;Katherine E. Burdick;Hema Visweswaraiah;Sherif Abdelmessih

  • Loss aversion, diminishing sensitivity, and the effect of experience on repeated decisions†

    Ido Erev;Eyal Ert;Eldad Yechiam

  • Comparison of basic assumptions embedded in learning models for experience-based decision making.

    Eldad Yechiam;Jerome R. Busemeyer

  • The Role of Personal Experience in Contributing to Different Patterns of Response to Rare Terrorist Attacks

    Eldad Yechiam;Greg Barron;Ido Erev

  • Private e-mail requests and the diffusion of responsibility☆

    Greg Barron;Eldad Yechiam

  • Loss aversion in the eye and in the heart: The autonomic nervous system's responses to losses

    Guy Hochman;Eldad Yechiam

  • The effect of foregone payoffs on underweighting small probability events

    Eldad Yechiam;Jerome R. Busemeyer

  • Motivational processes and autonomic responsivity in Asperger's disorder: evidence from the Iowa Gambling Task.

    Shannon A Johnson;Eldad Yechiam;Robin R Murphy;Sarah Queller

  • Decision-making impairments in adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia.

    Hana M. Kester;Serge Sevy;Eldad Yechiam;Katherine E. Burdick

  • Neurocognitive deficits related to poor decision making in people behind bars

    Eldad Yechiam;Jason E. Kanz;Antoine Bechara;Julie C. Stout

  • Emotion-based decision-making in healthy subjects: short-term effects of reducing dopamine levels

    Serge Sevy;Youssef Hassoun;Antoine Bechara;Eldad Yechiam

  • Loss-aversion or loss-attention: The impact of losses on cognitive performance

    Eldad Yechiam;Guy Hochman

  • Decision making and personality in traffic offenders: A study of Israeli drivers

    Dror Lev;Eyal Hershkovitz;Eldad Yechiam

  • Non-specific effects of methylphenidate (Ritalin) on cognitive ability and decision-making of ADHD and healthy adults.

    Nirit Agay;Eldad Yechiam;Ziv Carmel;Yechiel Levkovitz

  • The coexistence of overestimation and underweighting of rare events and the contingent recency effect

    Greg Barron;Eldad Yechiam

  • Acceptable losses: the debatable origins of loss aversion.

    Eldad Yechiam

  • Amusing titles in scientific journals and article citation

    Itay Sagi;Eldad Yechiam

  • Working memory and decision-making biases in young adults with a family history of alcoholism: studies from the Oklahoma family health patterns project.

    William R. Lovallo;Eldad Yechiam;Kristen H. Sorocco;Andrea S. Vincent

  • Loss Aversion, Diminishing Sensitivity, and the Effect of Experience on Repeated

    Ido Erev;Eyal Ert;Eldad Yechiam;Max Wertheimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome R. Busemeyer
Jerome R. Busemeyer Indiana University
Julie C. Stout
Julie C. Stout Monash University
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
Yechiel Levkovitz
Yechiel Levkovitz Tel Aviv University
William R. Lovallo
William R. Lovallo Veterans Health Administration
Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
Peter R. Finn
Peter R. Finn Indiana University
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Jane S. Paulsen
Jane S. Paulsen University of Wisconsin–Madison

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