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Michael Bar-Eli is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with 13 publications, and Psychology, with 12 publications. Subfields of their work include Economics and Econometrics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Sociology and Political Science, and Safety Research.

Their research topics focus extensively on areas such as Sports Analytics and Performance, Sport Psychology and Performance, Doping in Sports, Sports Performance and Training, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Sports, Gender, and Society, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Michael Bar-Eli has contributed multiple research papers published in various academic journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • Ask not what economics can do for sports - Ask what sports can do for economics, 2020, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • The feudal glove of talent-selection decisions in sport -Strengthening the link between subjective and objective assessments, 2023, Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Other relevant papers in the sphere of sports and psychology research, authored by frequent co-authors, include:

  • The referee's challenge: a threshold process model for decision making in sport games, 2020, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • The Moral Gatekeeper: Soccer and Technology, the Case of Video Assistant Referee (VAR), 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Inter-individual differences in sport refereeing: A review of theory and practice, 2021, Psychology of sport and exercise

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Elia Morgulev, Ofer H. Azar, Simcha Avugos, Ronnie Lidor, and Markus Raab.

Publications are often found in journals such as the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Twenty years of “hot hand” research: Review and critique

    Michael Bar-Eli;Simcha Avugos;Markus Raab

  • Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks

    Michael Bar-Eli;Michael Bar-Eli;Ofer H. Azar;Ilana Ritov;Yael Keidar-Levin

  • Theories of Decision Making

    Michael Bar‐Eli;Henning Plessner;Markus Raab

  • Judgment, Decision-making and Success in Sport

    Michael Bar-Eli;Henning Plessner;Markus Raab

  • Criticality of game situations and decision making in basketball: an application of performance crisis perspective

    Michael Bar-Eli;Michael Bar-Eli;Noam Tractinsky

  • Penalty kicks in soccer: an empirical analysis of shooting strategies and goalkeepers’ preferences

    Michael Bar‐Eli;Ofer H. Azar

  • Anticipation of ball location in low and high-skill performers: a developmental perspective

    Gershon Tenenbaum;Tsvia Sar-El;Michael Bar-Eli

  • The “hot hand” reconsidered: A meta-analytic approach

    Simcha Avugos;Simcha Avugos;Jörn Köppen;Uwe Czienskowski;Markus Raab

  • Do customers return excessive change in a restaurant?: A field experiment on dishonesty☆

    Ofer H. Azar;Shira Yosef;Michael Bar-Eli

  • The relationship between cognitive characteristics and decision making

    Gershon Tenenbaum;Raya Yuval;Gabi Elbaz;Michael Bar-Eli

  • Judgement, Decision Making and Success in Sport: Bar-Eli/Judgement, Decision Making and Success in Sport

    Michael Bar-Eli;Henning Plessner;Markus Raab

  • Psychological benefits of sports for disabled people: a review

    Y Hutzler;M Bar-Eli

  • A cross-cultural investigation of reasons for participation in gymnastics.

    G. S. Kolt;R. J. Kirkby;M. Bar-Eli;B. Blumenstein

  • Essential readings in sport and exercise psychology

    Daniel Smith;Michael Bar-Eli

  • Performance enhancement in swimming: the effect of mental training with biofeedback.

    M Bar-Eli;M Bar-Eli;B Blumenstein

  • Brain and Body in Sport and Exercise: Biofeedback Applications in Performance Enhancement

    Boris Blumenstein;Michael Bar-Eli;Gershon Tenenbaum

  • The Effect of Mental Training with Biofeedback on the Performance of Young Swimmers

    Michael Bar-Eli;Raya Dreshman;Boris Blumenstein;Yitzhak Weinstein

  • The augmenting role of biofeedback: Effects of autogenic, imagery and music training on physiological indices and athletic performance

    Boris Blumenstein;Michael Bar‐Eli;Gershon Tenenbaum

  • A Five-Step Approach to Mental Training Incorporating Biofeedback

    Boris Blumenstein;Michael Bar-Eli;Gershon Tenenbaum

  • Consequences of players' dismissal in professional soccer: a crisis-related analysis of group-size effects.

    Michael Bar-Eli;Gershon Tenenbaum;Sabine Geister

  • Effect of goal difficulty, goal specificity and duration of practice time intervals on muscular endurance performance

    Michael Bar-Eli;Gershon Tenenbaum;Joan S. Pie;Yaacov Btesh

Frequent Co-Authors

Gershon Tenenbaum
Gershon Tenenbaum Reichman University
Markus Raab
Markus Raab German Sport University Cologne
Ronnie Lidor
Ronnie Lidor Wingate Institute
Robert Weinberg
Robert Weinberg Miami University
Ilana Ritov
Ilana Ritov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Daniel M. Landers
Daniel M. Landers Arizona State University
Duarte Araújo
Duarte Araújo University of Lisbon
Thomas Schack
Thomas Schack Bielefeld University

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