G Itzchakov
Biographic Data
| ID | 46178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Itzchakov |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Itzchakov |
| SIGNATURE | ITZCHAKOV G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1516-6719 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultivating Humility in Business Education: A Listening-Focused Pedagogy for Future Leaders
In an era when humility and connection are vital for peace and sustainability, many leaders in business and government fall short by prioritizing their self-interest over ethics. Business schools, as key institutions shaping future leaders, may inadvertently reinforce this imbalance. To shift this lean toward self-interest, we propose a listening-focused pedagogy to cultivate humility and character in business school students. High-quality listen…
Listening across the divide: High-quality listening promotes speakers’ state well-being through basic psychological need satisfaction during disagreements
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…
Harmony in Political Discourse? The Impact of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Perceptions Following Political Conversations
Conversations with people who hold opposite partisan attitudes can elicit defensiveness, reinforce extreme attitudes, and undermine relationships with those with opposing views. However, this might not be the case when speakers experience high-quality (attentive, understanding, and non-judgmental) listening from their conversation partners. We hypothesized that high-quality listening would increase speakers’ positive views toward, and their willi…
Harmonizing hearts: High-quality listening and Kama Muta among listeners and speakers
Kama Muta, a relatively new construct, is an emotion of social connection that describes the feeling of being moved to love through five key dimensions. Despite the growing body of research on the beneficial outcomes of Kama Muta, little is known about its antecedents. To fill this gap, this research focuses on the emergence of Kama Muta during social interactions by specifically examining what triggers this emotion in conversations. The theory o…
Education toward cosmopolitanism as a pathway to reducing polarisation
Empathic listening satisfies speakers' psychological needs and well-being, but doesn't directly deepen solitude experiences: A registered report
A Possible Dark Side of Listening? Teachers Listening to Pupils Can Increase Burnout
A growing body of the literature on interpersonal listening has revealed numerous positive outcomes in the workplace. For example, employees who listen well are perceived as leaders, perform better at work, gain trust, and succeed in negotiations, among other benefits. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the potential negative consequences of listening in the workplace, especially when it is effortful and challenging. This study e…
Sowing the seeds of love: Cultivating perceptions of culture of companionate love through listening and its effects on organizational outcomes
Fostering a culture of companionate love in the workplace offers numerous benefits for employees, yet the methods for achieving this remain unclear. We propose that high‐quality listening, characterized by undivided attention, understanding, and a positive and non‐judgmental intention toward the speaker, could be a key facilitator. We hypothesized that such listening could enhance employees' perceptions of companionate love. Additionally, we hypo…
Listening to understand: The role of high-quality listening on speakers’ attitude depolarization during disagreements
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…
How to get through hard times: Principals' listening buffers teachers' stress on turnover intention and promotes organizational citizenship behavior
Connection Heals Wounds: Feeling Listened to Reduces Speakers’ Loneliness Following a Social Rejection Disclosure
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…
The Unintentional Nonconformist: Habits Promote Resistance to Social influence
This research tests a novel source of resistance to social influence—the automatic repetition of habit. In three experiments, participants with strong habits failed to align their behavior with others. Specifically, participants with strong habits to drink water in a dining hall or snack while working did not mimic others’ drinking or eating, whereas those with weak habits conformed. Similarly, participants with strong habits did not shift expect…
Communicating for workplace connection: A longitudinal study of the outcomes of listening training on teachers' autonomy, psychological safety, and relational climate
Training teachers to listen may enable them to experience increasingly attentive and open peer relationships at work. In the present research, we examined the outcomes of a year‐long listening training on school teachers' listening abilities and its downstream consequences on their relational climate, autonomy, and psychological safety. Teachers in two elementary schools engaged in a similar listening training program throughout the entire school…
Perceiving others as responsive lessens prejudice: The mediating roles of intellectual humility and attitude ambivalence
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research
What is 'good' qualitative research? Considerable literature articulates criteria for quality in qualitative research. Common to all these criteria is the understanding that the data gathering process, often interviews, is central in assessing research quality. Studies have highlighted the preparation of the interview guide, appropriate ways to ask questions, and especially the interaction between interviewer and interviewee. To a lesser extent, …
High-quality listening in the age of Covid-19
Dyadic Listening in Teams: Social Relations Model
Listening has powerful organizational consequences. However, studies of listening have typically focused on individual level processes. Alternatively, we hypothesized that perceptions of listening quality are inherently dyadic, positively reciprocated in dyads, and are correlated positively with intimacy, speaking ability, and helping‐organizational‐citizenship behavior, at the dyadic level. In two studies, teammates rated each other on listening…
Advancing Primed Goal Research in Organizational Behavior
In this rejoinder, we address three issues discussed in the commentaries on our lead article: possible ethical issues in goal priming in organizational settings, whether goal priming is restricted to routine behaviors, and the relationship of goal priming with self‐fulling prophecies and an organization’s climate. Finally, our data were examined by an independent researcher who tested for publication bias
An Enumerative Review and a Meta‐Analysis of Primed Goal Effects on Organizational Behavior
Drawing on results from 32 published and 20 unpublished laboratory and field experiments, we conducted an enumerative review of the primed goal effects on outcomes of organizational relevance including performance and the need for achievement. The enumerative review suggests that goal setting theory is as applicable for subconscious goals as it is for consciously set goals. A meta‐analysis of 23 studies revealed that priming an achievement goal, …
Perceived Responsiveness Increases Tolerance of Attitude Ambivalence and Enhances Intentions to Behave in an Open-Minded Manner
Can perceived responsiveness, the belief that meaningful others attend to and react supportively to core defining feature of the self, shape the structure of attitudes? We predicted that perceived responsiveness fosters open-mindedness, which, in turn, allows people to be simultaneously aware of opposing evaluations of an attitude object. We also hypothesized that this process will result in behavior intentions to consider multiple perspectives a…
High-Quality Listening Supports Speakers’ Autonomy and Self-Esteem when Discussing Prejudice
We examined how the experience of high-quality listening (attentive, empathic, and nonjudgmental) impacts speakers’ basic psychological needs and state self-esteem when discussing the difficult topic of a prejudiced attitude. Specifically, we hypothesized that when speakers discuss a prejudiced attitude with high-quality listeners, they experience higher autonomy, relatedness, and self-esteem than speakers who share their prejudiced attitude whil…
The Power of Listening at Work
Listening is associated with and a likely cause of desired organizational outcomes in numerous areas, including job performance, leadership, quality of relationships (e.g., trust), job knowledge, job attitudes, and well-being. To advance understanding of the powerful effects of listening on organizational outcomes, we review the construct of listening, its measurement and experimental manipulations, and its outcomes, antecedents, and moderators. …
Don't let the facts ruin a good story: The effect of vivid reviews on attitude ambivalence and its coping mechanisms
Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes
When attitudes and habits don’t correspond: Self-control depletion increases persuasion but not behavior
Feeling torn and fearing rue: Attitude ambivalence and anticipated regret as antecedents of biased information seeking
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research
What is 'good' qualitative research? Considerable literature articulates criteria for quality in qualitative research. Common to all these criteria is the understanding that the data gathering process, often interviews, is central in assessing research quality. Studies have highlighted the preparation of the interview guide, appropriate ways to ask questions, and especially the interaction between interviewer and interviewee. To a lesser extent, …
Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes
Does avoidance‐attachment style attenuate the benefits of being listened to
We tested both Rogers's hypothesis that listening enables speakers to experience psychological safety and our hypothesis that the benefit of listening for psychological safety is attenuated by avoidance‐attachment style. We tested these hypotheses in six laboratory experiments, a field correlational study, and a scenario experiment. We meta‐analyzed the results of the laboratory experiments and found that listening increased psychological safety …
Don't let the facts ruin a good story: The effect of vivid reviews on attitude ambivalence and its coping mechanisms
When attitudes and habits don’t correspond: Self-control depletion increases persuasion but not behavior
Listening to understand: The role of high-quality listening on speakers’ attitude depolarization during disagreements
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…
Perceiving others as responsive lessens prejudice: The mediating roles of intellectual humility and attitude ambivalence
Education toward cosmopolitanism as a pathway to reducing polarisation
Does avoidance‐attachment style attenuate the benefits of being listened to
We tested both Rogers's hypothesis that listening enables speakers to experience psychological safety and our hypothesis that the benefit of listening for psychological safety is attenuated by avoidance‐attachment style. We tested these hypotheses in six laboratory experiments, a field correlational study, and a scenario experiment. We meta‐analyzed the results of the laboratory experiments and found that listening increased psychological safety …
When attitudes and habits don’t correspond: Self-control depletion increases persuasion but not behavior
Feeling torn and fearing rue: Attitude ambivalence and anticipated regret as antecedents of biased information seeking
Don't let the facts ruin a good story: The effect of vivid reviews on attitude ambivalence and its coping mechanisms
Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes
Dyadic Listening in Teams: Social Relations Model
Listening has powerful organizational consequences. However, studies of listening have typically focused on individual level processes. Alternatively, we hypothesized that perceptions of listening quality are inherently dyadic, positively reciprocated in dyads, and are correlated positively with intimacy, speaking ability, and helping‐organizational‐citizenship behavior, at the dyadic level. In two studies, teammates rated each other on listening…
Advancing Primed Goal Research in Organizational Behavior
In this rejoinder, we address three issues discussed in the commentaries on our lead article: possible ethical issues in goal priming in organizational settings, whether goal priming is restricted to routine behaviors, and the relationship of goal priming with self‐fulling prophecies and an organization’s climate. Finally, our data were examined by an independent researcher who tested for publication bias
An Enumerative Review and a Meta‐Analysis of Primed Goal Effects on Organizational Behavior
Drawing on results from 32 published and 20 unpublished laboratory and field experiments, we conducted an enumerative review of the primed goal effects on outcomes of organizational relevance including performance and the need for achievement. The enumerative review suggests that goal setting theory is as applicable for subconscious goals as it is for consciously set goals. A meta‐analysis of 23 studies revealed that priming an achievement goal, …
Perceived Responsiveness Increases Tolerance of Attitude Ambivalence and Enhances Intentions to Behave in an Open-Minded Manner
Can perceived responsiveness, the belief that meaningful others attend to and react supportively to core defining feature of the self, shape the structure of attitudes? We predicted that perceived responsiveness fosters open-mindedness, which, in turn, allows people to be simultaneously aware of opposing evaluations of an attitude object. We also hypothesized that this process will result in behavior intentions to consider multiple perspectives a…
High-Quality Listening Supports Speakers’ Autonomy and Self-Esteem when Discussing Prejudice
We examined how the experience of high-quality listening (attentive, empathic, and nonjudgmental) impacts speakers’ basic psychological needs and state self-esteem when discussing the difficult topic of a prejudiced attitude. Specifically, we hypothesized that when speakers discuss a prejudiced attitude with high-quality listeners, they experience higher autonomy, relatedness, and self-esteem than speakers who share their prejudiced attitude whil…
The Power of Listening at Work
Listening is associated with and a likely cause of desired organizational outcomes in numerous areas, including job performance, leadership, quality of relationships (e.g., trust), job knowledge, job attitudes, and well-being. To advance understanding of the powerful effects of listening on organizational outcomes, we review the construct of listening, its measurement and experimental manipulations, and its outcomes, antecedents, and moderators. …
High-quality listening in the age of Covid-19
How to get through hard times: Principals' listening buffers teachers' stress on turnover intention and promotes organizational citizenship behavior
Connection Heals Wounds: Feeling Listened to Reduces Speakers’ Loneliness Following a Social Rejection Disclosure
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…
The Unintentional Nonconformist: Habits Promote Resistance to Social influence
This research tests a novel source of resistance to social influence—the automatic repetition of habit. In three experiments, participants with strong habits failed to align their behavior with others. Specifically, participants with strong habits to drink water in a dining hall or snack while working did not mimic others’ drinking or eating, whereas those with weak habits conformed. Similarly, participants with strong habits did not shift expect…
Communicating for workplace connection: A longitudinal study of the outcomes of listening training on teachers' autonomy, psychological safety, and relational climate
Training teachers to listen may enable them to experience increasingly attentive and open peer relationships at work. In the present research, we examined the outcomes of a year‐long listening training on school teachers' listening abilities and its downstream consequences on their relational climate, autonomy, and psychological safety. Teachers in two elementary schools engaged in a similar listening training program throughout the entire school…
Perceiving others as responsive lessens prejudice: The mediating roles of intellectual humility and attitude ambivalence
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research
What is 'good' qualitative research? Considerable literature articulates criteria for quality in qualitative research. Common to all these criteria is the understanding that the data gathering process, often interviews, is central in assessing research quality. Studies have highlighted the preparation of the interview guide, appropriate ways to ask questions, and especially the interaction between interviewer and interviewee. To a lesser extent, …
A Possible Dark Side of Listening? Teachers Listening to Pupils Can Increase Burnout
A growing body of the literature on interpersonal listening has revealed numerous positive outcomes in the workplace. For example, employees who listen well are perceived as leaders, perform better at work, gain trust, and succeed in negotiations, among other benefits. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the potential negative consequences of listening in the workplace, especially when it is effortful and challenging. This study e…
Sowing the seeds of love: Cultivating perceptions of culture of companionate love through listening and its effects on organizational outcomes
Fostering a culture of companionate love in the workplace offers numerous benefits for employees, yet the methods for achieving this remain unclear. We propose that high‐quality listening, characterized by undivided attention, understanding, and a positive and non‐judgmental intention toward the speaker, could be a key facilitator. We hypothesized that such listening could enhance employees' perceptions of companionate love. Additionally, we hypo…
Listening to understand: The role of high-quality listening on speakers’ attitude depolarization during disagreements
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…
Harmony in Political Discourse? The Impact of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Perceptions Following Political Conversations
Conversations with people who hold opposite partisan attitudes can elicit defensiveness, reinforce extreme attitudes, and undermine relationships with those with opposing views. However, this might not be the case when speakers experience high-quality (attentive, understanding, and non-judgmental) listening from their conversation partners. We hypothesized that high-quality listening would increase speakers’ positive views toward, and their willi…
Harmonizing hearts: High-quality listening and Kama Muta among listeners and speakers
Kama Muta, a relatively new construct, is an emotion of social connection that describes the feeling of being moved to love through five key dimensions. Despite the growing body of research on the beneficial outcomes of Kama Muta, little is known about its antecedents. To fill this gap, this research focuses on the emergence of Kama Muta during social interactions by specifically examining what triggers this emotion in conversations. The theory o…
Education toward cosmopolitanism as a pathway to reducing polarisation
Empathic listening satisfies speakers' psychological needs and well-being, but doesn't directly deepen solitude experiences: A registered report
Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Active listening (18 works) · Communication (13 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Perception (6 works)