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Overview

Gal Zauberman is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, general decision sciences, and health. Their work encompasses various aspects of psychological well-being, decision-making, behavioral economics, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes, as well as health disparities, neural and behavioral psychology studies, behavioral health interventions, and environmental education and sustainability.

Recent published papers by Gal Zauberman include:

  • A neural signature of the vividness of prospective thought is modulated by temporal proximity during intertemporal decision making, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Passing the buck to the wealthier: Reference-dependent standards of generosity, 2020, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Harder Than You Think: Misconceptions about Logging Food with Photos versus Text, 2022, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
  • Capturing life or missing it: How mindful photo-taking can affect experiences, 2022, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Inconsistent allocations of harms versus benefits may exacerbate environmental inequality, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Gal Zauberman's research include Kristin Diehl, Alixandra Barasch, Bouke Klein Teeselink, Sangil Lee, and Trishala Parthasarathi. Collaboration with these co-authors has contributed to the diverse topics addressed in Zauberman's field of study.

Gal Zauberman's research is often published in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Current Opinion in Psychology

The areas of study that characterize Gal Zauberman's work reflect a broad intersection of psychological science and decision-making processes. The focus on cognitive and social psychological mechanisms alongside experimental methods supports research into how individuals perceive, decide, and behave in contexts ranging from personal health to environmental and economic decisions.

Best Publications

  • Discounting time and time discounting: Subjective time perception and intertemporal preferences.

    Gal Zauberman;B. Kyu Kim;Selin A . Malkoc;James R . Bettman

  • Resource slack and propensity to discount delayed investments of time versus money.

    Gal Zauberman;John G. Lynch

  • Good Parameters and Implementations for Combined Multiple Recursive Random Number Generators

    Gregory W. Fischer;Ziv Carmon;Dan Ariely;Gal Zauberman

  • The Intertemporal Dynamics of Consumer Lock-In

    Gal Zauberman

  • The Psychology of Intertemporal Discounting: Why are Distant Events Valued Differently from Proximal Ones?

    Dilip Soman;George Ainslie;Shane Frederick;Xiuping Li

  • Memories as Assets: Strategic Memory Protection in Choice over Time

    Gal Zauberman;Rebecca K. Ratner;B. Kyu Kim

  • Perception of anticipatory time in temporal discounting.

    B. Kyu Kim;Gal Zauberman

  • Goal-Based Construction of Preferences: Task Goals and the Prominence Effect

    Gregory W. Fischer;Ziv Carmon;Dan Ariely;Gal Zauberman

  • On the making of an experience: the effects of breaking and combining experiences on their overall evaluation

    Dan Ariely;Gal Zauberman

  • Mental Simulation and Preference Consistency over Time: The Role of Process- versus Outcome-Focused Thoughts:

    Min Zhao;Steve Hoeffler;Gal Zauberman

  • How taking photos increases enjoyment of experiences.

    Kristin Diehl;Gal Zauberman;Alixandra Barasch

  • Deferring versus Expediting Consumption: The Effect of Outcome Concreteness on Sensitivity to Time Horizon:

    Selin A . Malkoc;Gal Zauberman

  • When Do You Want It? Time, Decisions, and Public Policy

    John G. Lynch;Gal Zauberman

  • Unstuck from the concrete: Carryover effects of abstract mindsets in intertemporal preferences

    Selin A. Malkoc;Gal Zauberman;James R. Bettman

  • Mental Simulation and Product Evaluation: The Affective and Cognitive Dimensions of Process versus Outcome Simulation:

    Min Zhao;Steve hoeffler;Gal ZauberMan

  • The effects of averaging subjective probability estimates between and within judges.

    Dan Ariely;Wing Tung Au;Randall H. Bender;David V. Budescu

  • How the Intention to Share Can Undermine Enjoyment: Photo-Taking Goals and Evaluation of Experiences

    Alixandra Barasch;Gal Zauberman;Kristin Diehl

  • Consuming Now or Later? The Interactive Effect of Timing and Attribute Alignability

    Selin A. Malkoc;Gal Zauberman;Canan Ulu

  • The Psychology of Intertemporal Preferences

    Oleg Urminsky;Gal Zauberman

  • Differential partitioning of extended experiences

    Dan Ariely;Dan Ariely;Gal Zauberman;Gal Zauberman

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
James R. Bettman
James R. Bettman Duke University
Deborah A. Small
Deborah A. Small University of Pennsylvania
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
David Bell
David Bell University of Leeds
Dilip Soman
Dilip Soman University of Toronto
Joseph W. Kable
Joseph W. Kable University of Pennsylvania
Thomas S. Wallsten
Thomas S. Wallsten University of Maryland, College Park
Caryn Lerman
Caryn Lerman University of Southern California

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