Yair Amichai‐hamburger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4884099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yair Amichai‐hamburger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yair |
| FAMILY NAME | Amichai‐hamburger |
| SIGNATURE | HAMBURGER Y A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reichman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3826-9737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
AI disclosure formats and user responses to AI-generated video: Evidence from a cross-national experiment
When technology meets personality: Toward human-centered AI design
Technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, is rapidly integrated into daily life, making it essential to understand its interaction with human behaviour and personality. This paper examines the influence personality dimensions has on attitudes, adoption and use of various technologies. Focusing on five personality theories and traits; 1) The Big Five (Goldberg in Rev Person Social Psychol 2:141–165, 1981; McCrae …
Virtual Bridges: Enhancing Intercultural Competence Among Pre-Service Teachers Through 3D and Video-Conferencing Platforms
This study investigates the effectiveness of virtual simulations in developing intercultural competence (IC) among pre-service teachers in Israel. In the context of cultural diversity and historical conflict, 283 Arab and Jewish students participated in a course utilizing either a 3D virtual world (VW) or video conferencing via Zoom. The mixed-methods research combined quantitative surveys with qualitative interviews. Quantitative results showed …
Cuteness in avatar design: A cross-cultural study on the influence of baby schema features and other visual characteristics
The concept of cuteness, which can evoke positive emotions in people, is an essential aspect to consider in artificial intelligence design. This study aimed to investigate whether the use of baby schema designed avatars in computer-mediated communication elicits higher positive attitudes than neutral avatars and whether the ethnicity of the cute avatars influences individuals' perceived level of cuteness. 485 participants from Israel and Japan vi…
The Social Side of Online Learning: How Social Capital Can Enhance Online Learning
Social factors, including social ties (the extent to which students form social ties with other students in the course) and social capital (the resources which are accessed through our social networks), have been acknowledged as important predictors of learning outcomes. Furthermore, they may be particularly important in online distance learning environments, in which social presence and interaction may be compromised. Nonetheless, there is a pau…
The ethics of suicide research online: A consensual protocol for crowdsourcing-based studies on suicide
Suicide, one of the top causes of life lost in developed countries, is a major health problem, especially today, with the dramatic increase in mental health difficulties that was triggered during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Opportunely, the recent emergence of internet-based crowdsourcing platforms (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) may accelerate research on suicide prevention, however, this type of suicide research online involves a diff…
E-mmortal: Death Anxiety is Related to Selfie Behaviors
Given the widespread phenomenon of selfies, numerous studies are examining the motivations behind taking and sharing selfies. The current paper suggests an additional possible motivation, namely, decreasing death anxiety. People are motivated to decrease their death anxiety by preserving a fake feeling of immortality. One known way to achieve this goal is by using photography. Therefore, we suggest that selfie behaviors are a way to fulfill the n…
Solving online conflicts by sensing the other. The role of social presence and closeness in improving the effectiveness of online intergroup contact
While intergroup contact in online contexts has been acknowledged as effective in reducing stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, i.e. intergroup bias, the underlying processes remain unclear. This study focuses on intersubjective processes and tests perceived social presence and closeness, as a means for strengthening the effects of online intergroup contact on attitudes towards the outgroup member and intergroup bias. We conducted a pre-po…
Personality and the autonomous vehicle: Overcoming psychological barriers to the driverless car
Personality and the Impact of Celebrity Endorsements on Instagram
Celebrities are famous people who often belong to entertainment industry. They are known to have a strong influence on people’s behavior. In the digital age this impact has expanded to include the online arena. Celebrities increasingly utilize Instagram, an online social network, to promote commercial products. It is important to learn to what extent people are influenced by this type of promotion and what sort of people are likely to be swayed b…
Caregiving strategies, parental practices, and the use of Facebook groups among Israeli mothers of adolescents
Facebook offers a “village” for mothers to come together and seek and share parenting information, but while there has been substantial research examining both positive and negative aspects of parents’ Facebook use, there is no research on use of Facebook by mothers of adolescents and its association with parent-adolescent relationships. Given the intense challenges of raising adolescents and the dearth of research into potential benefits and dra…
Allport meets internet: A meta-analytical investigation of online intergroup contact and prejudice reduction
The Personal Autonomous Car: Personality and the Driverless Car
Road traffic accidents, congestion and their ensuing issues are of international concern. A recent technological development to alleviate this situation is the autonomic car. A driverless vehicle will transport its passengers to their destinations. User experience would be enhanced by adapting the workings of the vehicle in line with the personality of its user. An autonomic car information system preference questionnaire was designed, focusing o…
Family environment and problematic internet use among adolescents: The mediating roles of depression and Fear of Missing Out
Factors Underlying Engagement in Facebook Support Groups of Female Infertility Patients
Women dealing with infertility issues may well undergo a long process of treatments and they are also likely to feel empty, defective, inadequate and worthless. Some of these women join online support groups in order to share their experiences, get information and ease their pain. One important positive phenomenon of the Internet is the advent of online support groups. These are designed to foster well-being and increased social interaction, and …
Are adolescents who consume pornography different from those who engaged in online sexual activities
The Use of Online Pornography as Compensation for Loneliness and Lack of Social Ties Among Israeli Adolescents
The Internet provides people with the ability to act anonymously, which may lead them to feel secure and to release them from many of their inhibitions. In many cases, this leads them to participate in cybersex activities and online pornography. This study examined the psychological factors behind young people’s sexual behavior online. Participants comprised 713 Israeli adolescents (383 boys and 330 girls) aged 14 to 18 years. Our results indicat…
The prospects of E-democracy: An experimental study of collaborative E-rulemaking
The recent literature on e-democracy reflects a certain disillusionment with the capacity of e-ruling initiatives to generate processes that serve concurrently the goals of democratization and of “good governance”. The main challenge has been to create e-ruling platforms that facilitate a deliberative process that is sufficiently inclusive and also makes a significant contribution to the policy debate. The present article contributes to this deba…
Internet Psychology: The Basics
We can't imagine our lives without the Internet. It is the tool of our existence; without it we couldn't work, plan our social and leisure activities, and interact with friends. The Internet’s influence on contemporary society extends across every aspect of our personal and professional lives, but how has this altered us in psychological terms? How are we to understand how the Internet can promote enormous amounts of caring and kindness to strang…
Intergroup Contact: An Integration of Social Psychological and Communication Perspectives
This chapter examines the literature on intergroup contact from a communication perspective. The basic idea of intergroup contact theory—that contact between groups reduces prejudice—is presented. Research examining this idea from a communication perspective is described and integrated with the large social-psychological body of work. We focus first on direct, face-to-face contact between members of different groups. We then discuss various forms…
Technology and Psychological Well-being
1. Communication technology and psychological well-being: Yin, Yang, and the golden mean of media effects George Rodman and Katherine G. Fry 2. Internet and well-being Yair Amichai-Hamburger and Azy Barak 3. Information, innovation, and society Steven L. Goldman 4. Work-related technological change and psychological well-being Michael P. O'Driscoll, Caroline Biron, and Cary L. Cooper 5. From ergonomics to hedonomics: trends in human factors and t…
Social network use and personality
Online Infidelity: Aspects of Dyadic Satisfaction, Self-Disclosure, and Narcissism
This study examined the hypothesis that the desire for an online infidelity act is formed on the basis of both personality-related factors and relationship-related factors, similarly to “real life” infidelity. Two hundred participants who maintain a relationship in “real life” were recruited through web advertisements, and filled in online questionnaires regarding their dyadic satisfaction (DAS-7), self-disclosure (JSDQ), narcissism (NPI), and th…
The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered: Interacting via the Internet
One of the leading theories advocated for reducing intergroup conflict is the contact hypothesis. According to this theory, contact under certain conditions, such as equal status, cooperation towards a superordinate goal, and institutional support, will create a positive intergroup encounter, which, in turn, will bring about an improvement in intergroup relations. Despite its promise, the contact hypothesis appears to suffer from three major defe…
Loneliness and Internet use
The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered: Interacting via the Internet
One of the leading theories advocated for reducing intergroup conflict is the contact hypothesis. According to this theory, contact under certain conditions, such as equal status, cooperation towards a superordinate goal, and institutional support, will create a positive intergroup encounter, which, in turn, will bring about an improvement in intergroup relations. Despite its promise, the contact hypothesis appears to suffer from three major defe…
Allport meets internet: A meta-analytical investigation of online intergroup contact and prejudice reduction
Intergroup Contact: An Integration of Social Psychological and Communication Perspectives
This chapter examines the literature on intergroup contact from a communication perspective. The basic idea of intergroup contact theory—that contact between groups reduces prejudice—is presented. Research examining this idea from a communication perspective is described and integrated with the large social-psychological body of work. We focus first on direct, face-to-face contact between members of different groups. We then discuss various forms…
An empirical assessment of the loose–tight leadership model: Quantitative and qualitative analyses
Using questionnaire and interview data, this study attempted to find out whether the organizational loose (participative) and tight (directive) practices are compatible with or contradict each other. Using the theoretical framework of Sagie's ( 1997 ) loose–tight leadership approach, our hypotheses concerned the effects of both practices on the employee's work‐related attitudes, and the mediating role of two variables, cognitive (information shar…
Online Infidelity: Aspects of Dyadic Satisfaction, Self-Disclosure, and Narcissism
This study examined the hypothesis that the desire for an online infidelity act is formed on the basis of both personality-related factors and relationship-related factors, similarly to “real life” infidelity. Two hundred participants who maintain a relationship in “real life” were recruited through web advertisements, and filled in online questionnaires regarding their dyadic satisfaction (DAS-7), self-disclosure (JSDQ), narcissism (NPI), and th…
Are adolescents who consume pornography different from those who engaged in online sexual activities
The prospects of E-democracy: An experimental study of collaborative E-rulemaking
The recent literature on e-democracy reflects a certain disillusionment with the capacity of e-ruling initiatives to generate processes that serve concurrently the goals of democratization and of “good governance”. The main challenge has been to create e-ruling platforms that facilitate a deliberative process that is sufficiently inclusive and also makes a significant contribution to the policy debate. The present article contributes to this deba…
Metaphors and Organizational Conflict
Many people hold a metaphor that accurately describes their perception of the organization in which they work. The metaphor also determines the way people perceive, remember, and analyze information they receive. However, any single metaphor limits people's perception by blocking and distorting the information encountered. Much of the conflict in the organization is caused by people holding different metaphors, oblivious to the fact that they beh…
"On the Internet No One Knows I'm an Introvert": Extroversion, Neuroticism, and Internet Interaction
Social communication is one of the most common reasons for using the Internet. This paper examines how the personality characteristics of the user affect the meaning and importance of Internet social interaction in comparison with "real life," face-to-face interactions. Forty subjects all of whom were familiar with using "chat" participated in this study. After a at" session, they were instructed to answer several questionnaires. It was found tha…
An empirical assessment of the loose–tight leadership model: Quantitative and qualitative analyses
Using questionnaire and interview data, this study attempted to find out whether the organizational loose (participative) and tight (directive) practices are compatible with or contradict each other. Using the theoretical framework of Sagie's ( 1997 ) loose–tight leadership approach, our hypotheses concerned the effects of both practices on the employee's work‐related attitudes, and the mediating role of two variables, cognitive (information shar…
Loneliness and Internet use
Online Infidelity: Aspects of Dyadic Satisfaction, Self-Disclosure, and Narcissism
This study examined the hypothesis that the desire for an online infidelity act is formed on the basis of both personality-related factors and relationship-related factors, similarly to “real life” infidelity. Two hundred participants who maintain a relationship in “real life” were recruited through web advertisements, and filled in online questionnaires regarding their dyadic satisfaction (DAS-7), self-disclosure (JSDQ), narcissism (NPI), and th…
The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered: Interacting via the Internet
One of the leading theories advocated for reducing intergroup conflict is the contact hypothesis. According to this theory, contact under certain conditions, such as equal status, cooperation towards a superordinate goal, and institutional support, will create a positive intergroup encounter, which, in turn, will bring about an improvement in intergroup relations. Despite its promise, the contact hypothesis appears to suffer from three major defe…
Social network use and personality
Technology and Psychological Well-being
1. Communication technology and psychological well-being: Yin, Yang, and the golden mean of media effects George Rodman and Katherine G. Fry 2. Internet and well-being Yair Amichai-Hamburger and Azy Barak 3. Information, innovation, and society Steven L. Goldman 4. Work-related technological change and psychological well-being Michael P. O'Driscoll, Caroline Biron, and Cary L. Cooper 5. From ergonomics to hedonomics: trends in human factors and t…
Intergroup Contact: An Integration of Social Psychological and Communication Perspectives
This chapter examines the literature on intergroup contact from a communication perspective. The basic idea of intergroup contact theory—that contact between groups reduces prejudice—is presented. Research examining this idea from a communication perspective is described and integrated with the large social-psychological body of work. We focus first on direct, face-to-face contact between members of different groups. We then discuss various forms…
Internet Psychology: The Basics
We can't imagine our lives without the Internet. It is the tool of our existence; without it we couldn't work, plan our social and leisure activities, and interact with friends. The Internet’s influence on contemporary society extends across every aspect of our personal and professional lives, but how has this altered us in psychological terms? How are we to understand how the Internet can promote enormous amounts of caring and kindness to strang…
The Use of Online Pornography as Compensation for Loneliness and Lack of Social Ties Among Israeli Adolescents
The Internet provides people with the ability to act anonymously, which may lead them to feel secure and to release them from many of their inhibitions. In many cases, this leads them to participate in cybersex activities and online pornography. This study examined the psychological factors behind young people’s sexual behavior online. Participants comprised 713 Israeli adolescents (383 boys and 330 girls) aged 14 to 18 years. Our results indicat…
The prospects of E-democracy: An experimental study of collaborative E-rulemaking
The recent literature on e-democracy reflects a certain disillusionment with the capacity of e-ruling initiatives to generate processes that serve concurrently the goals of democratization and of “good governance”. The main challenge has been to create e-ruling platforms that facilitate a deliberative process that is sufficiently inclusive and also makes a significant contribution to the policy debate. The present article contributes to this deba…
The Personal Autonomous Car: Personality and the Driverless Car
Road traffic accidents, congestion and their ensuing issues are of international concern. A recent technological development to alleviate this situation is the autonomic car. A driverless vehicle will transport its passengers to their destinations. User experience would be enhanced by adapting the workings of the vehicle in line with the personality of its user. An autonomic car information system preference questionnaire was designed, focusing o…
Family environment and problematic internet use among adolescents: The mediating roles of depression and Fear of Missing Out
Factors Underlying Engagement in Facebook Support Groups of Female Infertility Patients
Women dealing with infertility issues may well undergo a long process of treatments and they are also likely to feel empty, defective, inadequate and worthless. Some of these women join online support groups in order to share their experiences, get information and ease their pain. One important positive phenomenon of the Internet is the advent of online support groups. These are designed to foster well-being and increased social interaction, and …
Are adolescents who consume pornography different from those who engaged in online sexual activities
Personality and the Impact of Celebrity Endorsements on Instagram
Celebrities are famous people who often belong to entertainment industry. They are known to have a strong influence on people’s behavior. In the digital age this impact has expanded to include the online arena. Celebrities increasingly utilize Instagram, an online social network, to promote commercial products. It is important to learn to what extent people are influenced by this type of promotion and what sort of people are likely to be swayed b…
Caregiving strategies, parental practices, and the use of Facebook groups among Israeli mothers of adolescents
Facebook offers a “village” for mothers to come together and seek and share parenting information, but while there has been substantial research examining both positive and negative aspects of parents’ Facebook use, there is no research on use of Facebook by mothers of adolescents and its association with parent-adolescent relationships. Given the intense challenges of raising adolescents and the dearth of research into potential benefits and dra…
Allport meets internet: A meta-analytical investigation of online intergroup contact and prejudice reduction
Personality and the autonomous vehicle: Overcoming psychological barriers to the driverless car
The ethics of suicide research online: A consensual protocol for crowdsourcing-based studies on suicide
Suicide, one of the top causes of life lost in developed countries, is a major health problem, especially today, with the dramatic increase in mental health difficulties that was triggered during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Opportunely, the recent emergence of internet-based crowdsourcing platforms (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) may accelerate research on suicide prevention, however, this type of suicide research online involves a diff…
E-mmortal: Death Anxiety is Related to Selfie Behaviors
Given the widespread phenomenon of selfies, numerous studies are examining the motivations behind taking and sharing selfies. The current paper suggests an additional possible motivation, namely, decreasing death anxiety. People are motivated to decrease their death anxiety by preserving a fake feeling of immortality. One known way to achieve this goal is by using photography. Therefore, we suggest that selfie behaviors are a way to fulfill the n…
Solving online conflicts by sensing the other. The role of social presence and closeness in improving the effectiveness of online intergroup contact
While intergroup contact in online contexts has been acknowledged as effective in reducing stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, i.e. intergroup bias, the underlying processes remain unclear. This study focuses on intersubjective processes and tests perceived social presence and closeness, as a means for strengthening the effects of online intergroup contact on attitudes towards the outgroup member and intergroup bias. We conducted a pre-po…
Virtual Bridges: Enhancing Intercultural Competence Among Pre-Service Teachers Through 3D and Video-Conferencing Platforms
This study investigates the effectiveness of virtual simulations in developing intercultural competence (IC) among pre-service teachers in Israel. In the context of cultural diversity and historical conflict, 283 Arab and Jewish students participated in a course utilizing either a 3D virtual world (VW) or video conferencing via Zoom. The mixed-methods research combined quantitative surveys with qualitative interviews. Quantitative results showed …
Cuteness in avatar design: A cross-cultural study on the influence of baby schema features and other visual characteristics
The concept of cuteness, which can evoke positive emotions in people, is an essential aspect to consider in artificial intelligence design. This study aimed to investigate whether the use of baby schema designed avatars in computer-mediated communication elicits higher positive attitudes than neutral avatars and whether the ethnicity of the cute avatars influences individuals' perceived level of cuteness. 485 participants from Israel and Japan vi…
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · The Internet (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Personality (10 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (9 works) · World Wide Web (9 works) · Big Five personality traits (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works)