Tal Eyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4231850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tal Eyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tal |
| FAMILY NAME | Eyal |
| SIGNATURE | EYAL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0003-9066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Perceived moral objectivity: Why some moral issues seem more objective than others
An objectivist perception of morality holds that moral questions have universal, absolute, and singular correct answers. We tested whether perceived moral objectivity (PMO) varies across specific moral domains, using the taxonomy of moral domains provided by Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). We hypothesized that care, fairness, liberty and purity foundations would have higher PMO than loyalty and authority. In five studies (N Study1 = 213, N Study2…
Are Members of Political Out-Groups More Morally or Physically Disgusting
Recent research has found that Americans are disgusted by anonymous members of their political out-group. Determining whether the disgust elicited by political out-group members is more physical or moral may contribute to the understating of what enables its elicitation and regulation. Building on research showing the experience of moral disgust involves relatively abstract construal and the experience of physical disgust involves relatively conc…
Adolescents’ Preferred and Inferred Strategies for Being Accurately Understood by Their Parents
Perceived understanding in close relationships has been shown to positively correlate with relationship satisfaction and well-being. Less is known, however, about the preferred means for promoting such perceptions. The current study investigated the strategies adolescents prefer their parents use for understanding their feelings, and whether these preferences match the strategies adolescents infer their parents use and the strategies the parents …
Proud to Be Dishonest: Emotional Consequences of Altruistic Versus Egoistic Dishonesty
We explore and demonstrate the anticipated and actual emotions that are experienced by individuals who engage in dishonest behaviors that benefit others (altruistic dishonesty) versus the self (egoistic dishonesty), and primarily focus on the positive emotion of pride. Across three preregistered experiments (one scenario experiment and two incentivized behavioral ones), we found that engaging in altruistic dishonesty was not only more prevalent t…
Differential effects of abstract and concrete processing on the reactivity of basic and self-conscious emotions
The present research examines the influence of different processing modes (abstract vs. concrete) on the intensity of negative basic emotions (anger, fear) and self-conscious emotions (guilt, shame). We suggest that the cognitive appraisals underlying self-conscious emotions are relatively more abstract and less concrete than the appraisals underlying basic emotions. Consequently, we predicted that abstract processing would increase the intensity…
The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core versus moral disgust
Previous research has distinguished between core disgust , elicited by revolting physical objects like spoiled food, and sociomoral disgust , elicited by violations of social norms or moral principles. We suggest that different levels of construal are involved in the elicitation of core disgust and moral disgust. Specifically, we predicted that the elicitation of core disgust involves more concrete than abstract construal, while the elicitation o…
Emotions and the big picture: The effects of construal level on emotional preferences
Perspective mistaking: Accurately understanding the mind of another requires getting perspective, not taking perspective
Taking another person's perspective is widely presumed to increase interpersonal understanding. Very few experiments, however, have actually tested whether perspective taking increases accuracy when predicting another person's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or other mental states. Those that do yield inconsistent results, or they confound accuracy with egocentrism. Here we report 25 experiments testing whether being instructed to adopt another pe…
Seeing into the Future: Future Time Orientation as a Moderator of Temporal Distance Effects on Educators' Decisions
Research suggests that the temporal distance from decision outcomes leads to divergent decisions for the near and the distal future. As such, high‐level idealistic concerns and values dominate decisions for the distant future, whereas low‐level pragmatic concerns play a greater role in decisions for the near future. We examined how individual differences in future time orientation are related to decisions vis‐à‐vis the near versus the distal futu…
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
In the hope to resolve the two sets of opposing results concerning the effects of psychological distance and construal levels on moral judgment, Žeželj and Jokić (2014) conducted a series of four direct replications, which yielded divergent patterns of results. In our commentary, we first revisit the consistent findings that lower-level construals induced by How/Why manipulation lead to harsher moral condemnation than higher-level construals. We …
How the Consideration of Positive Emotions Influences Persuasion: The Differential Effect of Pride Versus Joy
Although pride and joy are both positive emotions, we expected their consideration to affect persuasion differently because of the different perspectives (near vs. distant) and level of abstractness they involve, with pride being more abstract than joy. Therefore, we predicted that when the attitude object is construed at a high level rather than a low level, the consideration of pride is likely to promote more persuasion than the consideration o…
Proud to cooperate: The consideration of pride promotes cooperation in a social dilemma
When stepping outside the self is not enough: A self-distanced perspective reduces the experience of basic but not of self-conscious emotions
The effect of distance-dependent construals on schema-driven impression formation
Judging near and distant virtue and vice
When values matter: Expressing values in behavioral intentions for the near vs. distant future
Influencing attitudes toward near and distant objects
The Pros and Cons of Temporally Near and Distant Action
The present research demonstrated that in considering an action, considerations against (con) the action tend to be subordinate to considerations in favor of (pro) the action in that cons are considered only if the level of pros is sufficient, whereas pros are considered independent of the level of cons (Studies 1A and IB). The authors therefore concluded that pros constitute a higher construal level than cons and predict, on the basis of tempora…
Judging near and distant virtue and vice
When values matter: Expressing values in behavioral intentions for the near vs. distant future
Influencing attitudes toward near and distant objects
The Pros and Cons of Temporally Near and Distant Action
The present research demonstrated that in considering an action, considerations against (con) the action tend to be subordinate to considerations in favor of (pro) the action in that cons are considered only if the level of pros is sufficient, whereas pros are considered independent of the level of cons (Studies 1A and IB). The authors therefore concluded that pros constitute a higher construal level than cons and predict, on the basis of tempora…
Perspective mistaking: Accurately understanding the mind of another requires getting perspective, not taking perspective
Taking another person's perspective is widely presumed to increase interpersonal understanding. Very few experiments, however, have actually tested whether perspective taking increases accuracy when predicting another person's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or other mental states. Those that do yield inconsistent results, or they confound accuracy with egocentrism. Here we report 25 experiments testing whether being instructed to adopt another pe…
The effect of distance-dependent construals on schema-driven impression formation
How the Consideration of Positive Emotions Influences Persuasion: The Differential Effect of Pride Versus Joy
Although pride and joy are both positive emotions, we expected their consideration to affect persuasion differently because of the different perspectives (near vs. distant) and level of abstractness they involve, with pride being more abstract than joy. Therefore, we predicted that when the attitude object is construed at a high level rather than a low level, the consideration of pride is likely to promote more persuasion than the consideration o…
Proud to cooperate: The consideration of pride promotes cooperation in a social dilemma
Emotions and the big picture: The effects of construal level on emotional preferences
When stepping outside the self is not enough: A self-distanced perspective reduces the experience of basic but not of self-conscious emotions
Proud to Be Dishonest: Emotional Consequences of Altruistic Versus Egoistic Dishonesty
We explore and demonstrate the anticipated and actual emotions that are experienced by individuals who engage in dishonest behaviors that benefit others (altruistic dishonesty) versus the self (egoistic dishonesty), and primarily focus on the positive emotion of pride. Across three preregistered experiments (one scenario experiment and two incentivized behavioral ones), we found that engaging in altruistic dishonesty was not only more prevalent t…
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
In the hope to resolve the two sets of opposing results concerning the effects of psychological distance and construal levels on moral judgment, Žeželj and Jokić (2014) conducted a series of four direct replications, which yielded divergent patterns of results. In our commentary, we first revisit the consistent findings that lower-level construals induced by How/Why manipulation lead to harsher moral condemnation than higher-level construals. We …
The Pros and Cons of Temporally Near and Distant Action
The present research demonstrated that in considering an action, considerations against (con) the action tend to be subordinate to considerations in favor of (pro) the action in that cons are considered only if the level of pros is sufficient, whereas pros are considered independent of the level of cons (Studies 1A and IB). The authors therefore concluded that pros constitute a higher construal level than cons and predict, on the basis of tempora…
Influencing attitudes toward near and distant objects
Judging near and distant virtue and vice
When values matter: Expressing values in behavioral intentions for the near vs. distant future
The effect of distance-dependent construals on schema-driven impression formation
When stepping outside the self is not enough: A self-distanced perspective reduces the experience of basic but not of self-conscious emotions
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
In the hope to resolve the two sets of opposing results concerning the effects of psychological distance and construal levels on moral judgment, Žeželj and Jokić (2014) conducted a series of four direct replications, which yielded divergent patterns of results. In our commentary, we first revisit the consistent findings that lower-level construals induced by How/Why manipulation lead to harsher moral condemnation than higher-level construals. We …
How the Consideration of Positive Emotions Influences Persuasion: The Differential Effect of Pride Versus Joy
Although pride and joy are both positive emotions, we expected their consideration to affect persuasion differently because of the different perspectives (near vs. distant) and level of abstractness they involve, with pride being more abstract than joy. Therefore, we predicted that when the attitude object is construed at a high level rather than a low level, the consideration of pride is likely to promote more persuasion than the consideration o…
Proud to cooperate: The consideration of pride promotes cooperation in a social dilemma
Seeing into the Future: Future Time Orientation as a Moderator of Temporal Distance Effects on Educators' Decisions
Research suggests that the temporal distance from decision outcomes leads to divergent decisions for the near and the distal future. As such, high‐level idealistic concerns and values dominate decisions for the distant future, whereas low‐level pragmatic concerns play a greater role in decisions for the near future. We examined how individual differences in future time orientation are related to decisions vis‐à‐vis the near versus the distal futu…
Emotions and the big picture: The effects of construal level on emotional preferences
Perspective mistaking: Accurately understanding the mind of another requires getting perspective, not taking perspective
Taking another person's perspective is widely presumed to increase interpersonal understanding. Very few experiments, however, have actually tested whether perspective taking increases accuracy when predicting another person's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or other mental states. Those that do yield inconsistent results, or they confound accuracy with egocentrism. Here we report 25 experiments testing whether being instructed to adopt another pe…
The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core versus moral disgust
Previous research has distinguished between core disgust , elicited by revolting physical objects like spoiled food, and sociomoral disgust , elicited by violations of social norms or moral principles. We suggest that different levels of construal are involved in the elicitation of core disgust and moral disgust. Specifically, we predicted that the elicitation of core disgust involves more concrete than abstract construal, while the elicitation o…
Differential effects of abstract and concrete processing on the reactivity of basic and self-conscious emotions
The present research examines the influence of different processing modes (abstract vs. concrete) on the intensity of negative basic emotions (anger, fear) and self-conscious emotions (guilt, shame). We suggest that the cognitive appraisals underlying self-conscious emotions are relatively more abstract and less concrete than the appraisals underlying basic emotions. Consequently, we predicted that abstract processing would increase the intensity…
Proud to Be Dishonest: Emotional Consequences of Altruistic Versus Egoistic Dishonesty
We explore and demonstrate the anticipated and actual emotions that are experienced by individuals who engage in dishonest behaviors that benefit others (altruistic dishonesty) versus the self (egoistic dishonesty), and primarily focus on the positive emotion of pride. Across three preregistered experiments (one scenario experiment and two incentivized behavioral ones), we found that engaging in altruistic dishonesty was not only more prevalent t…
Are Members of Political Out-Groups More Morally or Physically Disgusting
Recent research has found that Americans are disgusted by anonymous members of their political out-group. Determining whether the disgust elicited by political out-group members is more physical or moral may contribute to the understating of what enables its elicitation and regulation. Building on research showing the experience of moral disgust involves relatively abstract construal and the experience of physical disgust involves relatively conc…
Adolescents’ Preferred and Inferred Strategies for Being Accurately Understood by Their Parents
Perceived understanding in close relationships has been shown to positively correlate with relationship satisfaction and well-being. Less is known, however, about the preferred means for promoting such perceptions. The current study investigated the strategies adolescents prefer their parents use for understanding their feelings, and whether these preferences match the strategies adolescents infer their parents use and the strategies the parents …
Perceived moral objectivity: Why some moral issues seem more objective than others
An objectivist perception of morality holds that moral questions have universal, absolute, and singular correct answers. We tested whether perceived moral objectivity (PMO) varies across specific moral domains, using the taxonomy of moral domains provided by Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). We hypothesized that care, fairness, liberty and purity foundations would have higher PMO than loyalty and authority. In five studies (N Study1 = 213, N Study2…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 works) · Construal level theory (7 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (5 works)