Andrey Elster
Biographic Data
| ID | 4626996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrey Elster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Elster |
| SIGNATURE | ELSTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8232-9453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What It Takes to Make Sense of the World
Societies are naturally engaged in a perpetual endeavor to construct a shared reality by making sense of socially significant information. The role of culture in this process of sensemaking, however, remains surprisingly understudied. To fill this gap, we investigated how cross-cultural differences predict overt sensemaking in the activity of the world largest encyclopedia—Wikipedia, which explicitly aims to create a shared system of meaning. Ado…
The Moderating Effect of Cultural Tightness on the Influence of Personal Values and Social Norms on Behavior
INTRODUCTION: Behavior is not solely determined by individual dispositions or situational demands, but by the dynamic interplay between them. The current research investigates the contextual sensitivity of behavioral determinants by examining how personal values and social norms influence behavior across tight and loose cultural contexts. METHOD: We either measured (Study 1: n = 762) or manipulated (Study 2: n = 564) cultural tightness and examin…
Personal Values and Cognitive Biases
INTRODUCTION: Psychology textbooks abound with demonstrations of classic biases, yet the question why some people are more or less susceptible to those biases remains little explored. Drawing on Schwartz Values Theory (1992), we aim to show how individual differences in personal values, which express trans-situational, chronic motivations of a perceiver, impact cognitive biases. METHOD: = 30.7), we assessed personal values and manipulated or meas…
When guiding principles do not guide
OBJECTIVE: Ample research documented the effects of guiding principles in people's lives, as reflected in personal values, on a variety of behaviors. But do these principles universally guide behaviors across all cultural contexts? To address this question, we investigated the effect of cross-cultural differences in the strength of social norms (i.e., tightness-looseness) on value-behavior relationships. METHOD: = 44.98, SD = 16.87), a multi-leve…
S chwartz Value Theory
The Schwartz Value Theory discusses values at both the individual and the national level. Individual‐level values are desirable goals that serve as guiding principles in people's lives. Schwartz identified 10 basic motivations, represented by 10 value types, yielding a circular model. The circular structure of values could be summarized into two main conflicts: self‐enhancement (power, achievement, hedonism) versus self‐transcendence (benevolence…
Integrating Content and Structure Aspects of the Self
Research on the structure of the self has mostly developed separately from research on its content. Taking an integrative approach, we studied two structural aspects of the self associated with self‐improvement—self‐discrepancies and perceived mutability—by focusing on two content areas, traits and values. In Studies 1 A – C , 337 students (61% female) reported self‐discrepancies in values and traits, with the finding that self‐discrepancies in v…
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Integrating Content and Structure Aspects of the Self
Research on the structure of the self has mostly developed separately from research on its content. Taking an integrative approach, we studied two structural aspects of the self associated with self‐improvement—self‐discrepancies and perceived mutability—by focusing on two content areas, traits and values. In Studies 1 A – C , 337 students (61% female) reported self‐discrepancies in values and traits, with the finding that self‐discrepancies in v…
S chwartz Value Theory
The Schwartz Value Theory discusses values at both the individual and the national level. Individual‐level values are desirable goals that serve as guiding principles in people's lives. Schwartz identified 10 basic motivations, represented by 10 value types, yielding a circular model. The circular structure of values could be summarized into two main conflicts: self‐enhancement (power, achievement, hedonism) versus self‐transcendence (benevolence…
When guiding principles do not guide
OBJECTIVE: Ample research documented the effects of guiding principles in people's lives, as reflected in personal values, on a variety of behaviors. But do these principles universally guide behaviors across all cultural contexts? To address this question, we investigated the effect of cross-cultural differences in the strength of social norms (i.e., tightness-looseness) on value-behavior relationships. METHOD: = 44.98, SD = 16.87), a multi-leve…
Personal Values and Cognitive Biases
INTRODUCTION: Psychology textbooks abound with demonstrations of classic biases, yet the question why some people are more or less susceptible to those biases remains little explored. Drawing on Schwartz Values Theory (1992), we aim to show how individual differences in personal values, which express trans-situational, chronic motivations of a perceiver, impact cognitive biases. METHOD: = 30.7), we assessed personal values and manipulated or meas…
What It Takes to Make Sense of the World
Societies are naturally engaged in a perpetual endeavor to construct a shared reality by making sense of socially significant information. The role of culture in this process of sensemaking, however, remains surprisingly understudied. To fill this gap, we investigated how cross-cultural differences predict overt sensemaking in the activity of the world largest encyclopedia—Wikipedia, which explicitly aims to create a shared system of meaning. Ado…
The Moderating Effect of Cultural Tightness on the Influence of Personal Values and Social Norms on Behavior
INTRODUCTION: Behavior is not solely determined by individual dispositions or situational demands, but by the dynamic interplay between them. The current research investigates the contextual sensitivity of behavioral determinants by examining how personal values and social norms influence behavior across tight and loose cultural contexts. METHOD: We either measured (Study 1: n = 762) or manipulated (Study 2: n = 564) cultural tightness and examin…
Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Value (mathematics) (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Collectivism (2 works) · Cultural values (2 works) · Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory (2 works) · Individualism (2 works)