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Overview

Ilan Yaniv is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, applied psychology, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as behavioral health and interventions, emotions and moral behavior, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, psychology of social influence, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), behavioral and psychological studies, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • What Drives Risky Behavior in ADHD: Insensitivity to its Risk or Fascination with its Potential Benefits? (2020), Journal of Attention Disorders
  • Advice-giving under conflict of interest: Context enhances self-serving behavior (2020), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Empathy for the pain of others: Sensitivity to the individual, not to the collective (2023), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Reaping a benefit at the expense of multiple others: How are the losses of others counted? (2021), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Genetically-diverse crowds are wiser (2024), Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent co-authors they have collaborated with include:

  • Meir Barneron
  • Shoham Choshen-Hillel
  • Rachel Shoham
  • Edmund Sonuga-Barke
  • Yehuda Pollak

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Journal of Attention Disorders
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Personality and Individual Differences

Best Publications

  • Advice Taking in Decision Making: Egocentric Discounting and Reputation Formation

    Ilan Yaniv;Eli Kleinberger

  • Receiving other people’s advice: Influence and benefit

    Ilan Yaniv

  • Receiving Other People's Advice: Influence and Benefit

    Ilan Yaniv

  • Activation and metacognition of inaccessible stored information: potential bases for incubation effects in problem solving.

    Ilan Yaniv;David E. Meyer

  • Individual and Group Behavior in the Ultimatum Game: Are Groups More "Rational" Players?

    Gary Bornstein;Ilan Yaniv

  • Demystification of cognitive insight: Opportunistic assimilation and the prepared-mind hypothesis

    Colleen M Seifert;David E Meyer;Natalie Davidson;Andrea L Patalano

  • Graininess of judgment under uncertainty: An accuracy-informativeness trade-off.

    Ilan Yaniv;Dean P. Foster

  • The Benefit of Additional Opinions

    Ilan Yaniv

  • The Benefit of Additional Opinions

    Ilan Yaniv

  • Using advice from multiple sources to revise and improve judgments

    Ilan Yaniv;Maxim Milyavsky

  • Individual and Group Behavior in the Ultimatum Game: Are Groups More “Rational” Players?

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  • Precision and Accuracy of Judgmental Estimation

    Ilan Yaniv;Dean P. Foster

  • Measures of Discrimination Skill in Probabilistic Judgment

    Ilan Yaniv;J. Frank Yates;J. E. Keith Smith

  • Demystification of Cognitive Insight: Opportunistic Assimilation and the Prepared-Mind Perspective

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  • Overconfidence in interval estimates: What does expertise buy you?

    Craig R. M. McKenzie;Michael J. Liersch;Ilan Yaniv

  • Elimination and inclusion procedures in judgment.

    Ilan Yaniv;Yaacov Schul

  • Weighting and Trimming: Heuristics for Aggregating Judgments under Uncertainty☆☆☆

    Ilan Yaniv

  • Spurious consensus and opinion revision: why might people be more confident in their less accurate judgments?

    Ilan Yaniv;Shoham Choshen-Hillel;Maxim Milyavsky

  • Group diversity and decision quality: Amplification and attenuation of the framing effect

    Ilan Yaniv

  • Receiving advice on matters of taste: Similarity, majority influence, and taste discrimination

    Ilan Yaniv;Shoham Choshen-Hillel;Maxim Milyavsky

  • Exploiting the Wisdom of Others to Make Better Decisions: Suspending Judgment Reduces Egocentrism and Increases Accuracy

    Ilan Yaniv;Shoham Choshen-Hillel

  • Vowel similarity, connectionist models, and syllable structure in motor programming of speech

    Ilan Yaniv;David Edward Meyer;Peter C. Gordon;Carol A. Huff

  • Agency and the Construction of Social Preference: Between Inequality Aversion and Prosocial Behavior

    Shoham Choshen-Hillel;Ilan Yaniv

  • Combining Advice: The Weight of a Dissenting Opinion in the Consensus

    Clare Harries;Ilan Yaniv;Nigel Harvey

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Robin M. Hogarth
Robin M. Hogarth Pompeu Fabra University

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