Eyal Peer
Biographic Data
| ID | 226159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eyal Peer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eyal |
| FAMILY NAME | Peer |
| SIGNATURE | PEER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9891-5297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 443 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racial discrimination and life satisfaction in non-Western contexts: Examining the moderating role of migration in Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, and Ukraine
OBJECTIVE: It has been well established that racial discrimination has detrimental consequences for well-being. However, less is known about this relationship in non-Western settings, and there is limited research examining factors that may moderate it. This study investigates the association between perceived racial discrimination and life satisfaction across four non-Western countries, as well as the role of migration as a potential moderator. …
Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments
People frequently compete with one another for awards, benefits, contracts, positions, or roles. One of the regulatory challenges in these contexts lies in preventing people from making dishonest claims to win such competitions. Honesty pledges, asking people to commit to ethical behavior ex ante, have been found to reduce cheating under non‐competitive settings (when rewards were given based on individual reports only). However, as people behave…
Identified disclosure to increase Consumers’ detection of native advertising
Effectiveness of Ex-Ante Honesty Oaths in Reducing Dishonesty Depends on Content
Dishonest behaviors such as tax evasion impose significant societal costs. Ex-ante honesty oaths—commitments to honesty before action—have been proposed as interventions to counteract dishonest behavior, but the heterogeneity in findings across operationalizations calls their effectiveness into question. We tested 21 honesty oaths (including a baseline oath)—proposed, evaluated, and selected by 44 expert researchers—and a no-oath condition in a m…
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification
Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content
Affidavit aversion: Public preferences for trust‐based policy instruments
Regulators who aim to reduce administrative burdens often promote trust‐based policy instruments, such as legal affidavits or honesty pledges, as substitutes to traditional bureaucratic procedures. However, little is known on how the general public view such instruments, and whether people would actually comply with them, and under what circumstances. Using a series of experimental vignettes, we examine public preferences toward these instruments…
Predicting a win by a small margin: The effect of graphic scaling in published polls on voters' predictions
The public display of election poll results is often manipulated to influence voter predictions about the race. Narrow scaling is one such manipulation that involves truncating the chart's vertical axis such that its range extends closely around the values of the bars. This manipulation exacerbates the visual difference between bars, making the margin appear larger than an unbiased representation would suggest. The current research examines wheth…
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty
A common regulatory dilemma is determining how much trust authorities can place in people's self-reports, especially in contexts with an incentive to cheat. In such contexts, regulators are typically risk averse and do not readily confer trust, resulting in excessive requirements when applying for permits, licenses, etc. Studies in behavioral ethics have suggested that asking people to ex-ante pledge to behave ethically can reduce their level of …
Nudge me right: Personalizing online security nudges to people's decision-making styles
Faculty attitudes about student evaluations and their relations to self-image as teacher
Extreme malleability of preferences: Absolute preference sign changes under uncertainty
Malleability of preferences is a central tenet of behavioral decision theory. How malleable preferences really are, however, is a topic of debate. Do preference reversals imply preference construction? We argue that to claim preferences are construed, a demonstration of more extreme preference malleability than simple preference reversals is required: absolute preference sign changes within participants. If respondents value a prospect positively…
Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research
The Average Fuel‐Efficiency Fallacy: Overestimation of Average Fuel Efficiency and How It Can Lead to Biased Decisions
People falsely believe that equal increases in vehicles' fuel efficiency (e.g., miles per gallon (MPG)) will result in equal fuel savings. Whereas previous research on this “MPG illusion” has focused on people's biased choices of upgrading vehicle models, it has not examined a more common situation, namely, estimating a given vehicle's fuel efficiency based on the average of two efficiency values (e.g., in the city and on highways). In such situa…
Using Nonnaive Participants Can Reduce Effect Sizes
Although researchers often assume their participants are naive to experimental materials, this is not always the case. We investigated how prior exposure to a task affects subsequent experimental results. Participants in this study completed the same set of 12 experimental tasks at two points in time, first as a part of the Many Labs replication project and again a few days, a week, or a month later. Effect sizes were markedly lower in the second…
Predicting privacy and security attitudes
While individual differences in decision-making have been examined within the social sciences for several decades, this research has only recently begun to be applied by computer scientists to examine privacy and security attitudes (and ultimately behaviors). Specifically, several researchers have shown how different online privacy decisions are correlated with the "Big Five" personality traits. However, in our own research, we show that the five…
Reputation as a sufficient condition for data quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk
I cheated, but only a little”: Partial confessions to unethical behavior
Confessions are people's way of coming clean, sharing unethical acts with others. Although confessions are traditionally viewed as categorical-one either comes clean or not-people often confess to only part of their transgression. Such partial confessions may seem attractive, because they offer an opportunity to relieve one's guilt without having to own up to the full consequences of the transgression. In this article, we explored the occurrence,…
Media literacy and media bias: Are media literacy students less susceptible to nonverbal judgment biases
The phenomenon of nonverbal (NV) media bias has been established and investigated in recent studies. A series of controlled experiments demonstrated that the friendly or hostile NV behavior of a TV interviewer in a short political interview can systematically influence viewers’ impressions of the interviewed politician and their attributions about the interviewee. Consistent media bias effects emerged in a series of independent samples in four co…
Positive versus Negative Framing Affects Justice Judgments
Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research
I cheated, but only a little”: Partial confessions to unethical behavior
Confessions are people's way of coming clean, sharing unethical acts with others. Although confessions are traditionally viewed as categorical-one either comes clean or not-people often confess to only part of their transgression. Such partial confessions may seem attractive, because they offer an opportunity to relieve one's guilt without having to own up to the full consequences of the transgression. In this article, we explored the occurrence,…
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty
A common regulatory dilemma is determining how much trust authorities can place in people's self-reports, especially in contexts with an incentive to cheat. In such contexts, regulators are typically risk averse and do not readily confer trust, resulting in excessive requirements when applying for permits, licenses, etc. Studies in behavioral ethics have suggested that asking people to ex-ante pledge to behave ethically can reduce their level of …
Positive versus Negative Framing Affects Justice Judgments
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification
Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content
Extreme malleability of preferences: Absolute preference sign changes under uncertainty
Malleability of preferences is a central tenet of behavioral decision theory. How malleable preferences really are, however, is a topic of debate. Do preference reversals imply preference construction? We argue that to claim preferences are construed, a demonstration of more extreme preference malleability than simple preference reversals is required: absolute preference sign changes within participants. If respondents value a prospect positively…
Positive versus Negative Framing Affects Justice Judgments
Media literacy and media bias: Are media literacy students less susceptible to nonverbal judgment biases
The phenomenon of nonverbal (NV) media bias has been established and investigated in recent studies. A series of controlled experiments demonstrated that the friendly or hostile NV behavior of a TV interviewer in a short political interview can systematically influence viewers’ impressions of the interviewed politician and their attributions about the interviewee. Consistent media bias effects emerged in a series of independent samples in four co…
Reputation as a sufficient condition for data quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk
I cheated, but only a little”: Partial confessions to unethical behavior
Confessions are people's way of coming clean, sharing unethical acts with others. Although confessions are traditionally viewed as categorical-one either comes clean or not-people often confess to only part of their transgression. Such partial confessions may seem attractive, because they offer an opportunity to relieve one's guilt without having to own up to the full consequences of the transgression. In this article, we explored the occurrence,…
Using Nonnaive Participants Can Reduce Effect Sizes
Although researchers often assume their participants are naive to experimental materials, this is not always the case. We investigated how prior exposure to a task affects subsequent experimental results. Participants in this study completed the same set of 12 experimental tasks at two points in time, first as a part of the Many Labs replication project and again a few days, a week, or a month later. Effect sizes were markedly lower in the second…
Predicting privacy and security attitudes
While individual differences in decision-making have been examined within the social sciences for several decades, this research has only recently begun to be applied by computer scientists to examine privacy and security attitudes (and ultimately behaviors). Specifically, several researchers have shown how different online privacy decisions are correlated with the "Big Five" personality traits. However, in our own research, we show that the five…
The Average Fuel‐Efficiency Fallacy: Overestimation of Average Fuel Efficiency and How It Can Lead to Biased Decisions
People falsely believe that equal increases in vehicles' fuel efficiency (e.g., miles per gallon (MPG)) will result in equal fuel savings. Whereas previous research on this “MPG illusion” has focused on people's biased choices of upgrading vehicle models, it has not examined a more common situation, namely, estimating a given vehicle's fuel efficiency based on the average of two efficiency values (e.g., in the city and on highways). In such situa…
Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research
Faculty attitudes about student evaluations and their relations to self-image as teacher
Extreme malleability of preferences: Absolute preference sign changes under uncertainty
Malleability of preferences is a central tenet of behavioral decision theory. How malleable preferences really are, however, is a topic of debate. Do preference reversals imply preference construction? We argue that to claim preferences are construed, a demonstration of more extreme preference malleability than simple preference reversals is required: absolute preference sign changes within participants. If respondents value a prospect positively…
Nudge me right: Personalizing online security nudges to people's decision-making styles
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty
A common regulatory dilemma is determining how much trust authorities can place in people's self-reports, especially in contexts with an incentive to cheat. In such contexts, regulators are typically risk averse and do not readily confer trust, resulting in excessive requirements when applying for permits, licenses, etc. Studies in behavioral ethics have suggested that asking people to ex-ante pledge to behave ethically can reduce their level of …
Affidavit aversion: Public preferences for trust‐based policy instruments
Regulators who aim to reduce administrative burdens often promote trust‐based policy instruments, such as legal affidavits or honesty pledges, as substitutes to traditional bureaucratic procedures. However, little is known on how the general public view such instruments, and whether people would actually comply with them, and under what circumstances. Using a series of experimental vignettes, we examine public preferences toward these instruments…
Predicting a win by a small margin: The effect of graphic scaling in published polls on voters' predictions
The public display of election poll results is often manipulated to influence voter predictions about the race. Narrow scaling is one such manipulation that involves truncating the chart's vertical axis such that its range extends closely around the values of the bars. This manipulation exacerbates the visual difference between bars, making the margin appear larger than an unbiased representation would suggest. The current research examines wheth…
Effectiveness of Ex-Ante Honesty Oaths in Reducing Dishonesty Depends on Content
Dishonest behaviors such as tax evasion impose significant societal costs. Ex-ante honesty oaths—commitments to honesty before action—have been proposed as interventions to counteract dishonest behavior, but the heterogeneity in findings across operationalizations calls their effectiveness into question. We tested 21 honesty oaths (including a baseline oath)—proposed, evaluated, and selected by 44 expert researchers—and a no-oath condition in a m…
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification
Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content
Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments
People frequently compete with one another for awards, benefits, contracts, positions, or roles. One of the regulatory challenges in these contexts lies in preventing people from making dishonest claims to win such competitions. Honesty pledges, asking people to commit to ethical behavior ex ante, have been found to reduce cheating under non‐competitive settings (when rewards were given based on individual reports only). However, as people behave…
Identified disclosure to increase Consumers’ detection of native advertising
Racial discrimination and life satisfaction in non-Western contexts: Examining the moderating role of migration in Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, and Ukraine
OBJECTIVE: It has been well established that racial discrimination has detrimental consequences for well-being. However, less is known about this relationship in non-Western settings, and there is limited research examining factors that may moderate it. This study investigates the association between perceived racial discrimination and life satisfaction across four non-Western countries, as well as the role of migration as a potential moderator. …
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cheating (4 works)