Moty Amar
Biographic Data
| ID | 149611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moty Amar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moty |
| FAMILY NAME | Amar |
| SIGNATURE | AMAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ono Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0839-0774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Listening across the divide
1,624), three of which were preregistered, and using diverse methods including experimental vignettes, live conversations, recalled conversations, and a multilevel field survey, we compared high-quality, moderate-quality (Studies 1-5), and low-quality (Study 1) listening when conversing partners agreed or disagreed. Speakers who experienced high-quality listening consistently reported greater SWB, state optimism, and basic psychological need sati…
Listening to understand
Disagreements can polarize attitudes when they evoke defensiveness from the conversation partners. When a speaker talks, listeners often think about ways to counterargue. This process often fails to depolarize attitudes and might even backfire (i.e., the Boomerang effect). However, what happens in disagreements if one conversation partner genuinely listens to the other's perspective? We hypothesized that when conversation partners convey high-qua…
Connection Heals Wounds
Memories of rejection contribute to feeling lonely. However, high-quality listening that conveys well-meaning attention and understanding when speakers discuss social rejection may help them to reconnect. Speakers may experience less loneliness because they feel close and connected (relatedness) to the listener and because listening supports self-congruent expression (autonomy). Five experiments (total N = 1,643) manipulated listening during visu…
Visual Size Matters
Consumers' calorie estimates are often biased and inaccurate. Even the presence of relevant nutritional information may not suffice to prevent consumer biases in calorie estimation. The current work demonstrates across two studies that visual cues given by larger product depictions lead to increased calorie estimates. Further, it demonstrates that these effects occur even when consumers are given, and notice, information about product quantity. T…
Fear of Hospital-Acquired Infections
Don't let the facts ruin a good story
Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes
Pain and Preferences
Decision making often entails conflict. In many situations, the symptoms of such decisional conflict are conspicuous. This article explores an important and unexamined question: How does observing someone else experiencing decisional conflict impact our own preferences? The authors show that observing others’ emotional conflict and agony over an impending decision makes the observer’s preferences converge to those of the conflicted actor (i.e., c…
Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes
Don't let the facts ruin a good story
Listening to understand
Disagreements can polarize attitudes when they evoke defensiveness from the conversation partners. When a speaker talks, listeners often think about ways to counterargue. This process often fails to depolarize attitudes and might even backfire (i.e., the Boomerang effect). However, what happens in disagreements if one conversation partner genuinely listens to the other's perspective? We hypothesized that when conversation partners convey high-qua…
Pain and Preferences
Decision making often entails conflict. In many situations, the symptoms of such decisional conflict are conspicuous. This article explores an important and unexamined question: How does observing someone else experiencing decisional conflict impact our own preferences? The authors show that observing others’ emotional conflict and agony over an impending decision makes the observer’s preferences converge to those of the conflicted actor (i.e., c…
Fear of Hospital-Acquired Infections
Don't let the facts ruin a good story
Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes
Visual Size Matters
Consumers' calorie estimates are often biased and inaccurate. Even the presence of relevant nutritional information may not suffice to prevent consumer biases in calorie estimation. The current work demonstrates across two studies that visual cues given by larger product depictions lead to increased calorie estimates. Further, it demonstrates that these effects occur even when consumers are given, and notice, information about product quantity. T…
Connection Heals Wounds
Memories of rejection contribute to feeling lonely. However, high-quality listening that conveys well-meaning attention and understanding when speakers discuss social rejection may help them to reconnect. Speakers may experience less loneliness because they feel close and connected (relatedness) to the listener and because listening supports self-congruent expression (autonomy). Five experiments (total N = 1,643) manipulated listening during visu…
Listening to understand
Disagreements can polarize attitudes when they evoke defensiveness from the conversation partners. When a speaker talks, listeners often think about ways to counterargue. This process often fails to depolarize attitudes and might even backfire (i.e., the Boomerang effect). However, what happens in disagreements if one conversation partner genuinely listens to the other's perspective? We hypothesized that when conversation partners convey high-qua…
Listening across the divide
1,624), three of which were preregistered, and using diverse methods including experimental vignettes, live conversations, recalled conversations, and a multilevel field survey, we compared high-quality, moderate-quality (Studies 1-5), and low-quality (Study 1) listening when conversing partners agreed or disagreed. Speakers who experienced high-quality listening consistently reported greater SWB, state optimism, and basic psychological need sati…
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Active listening (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Communication (3 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)