Tehilla Mechera‐Ostrovsky

Biographic Data

ID6540942
NAMETehilla Mechera‐Ostrovsky
GIVEN NAMESTehilla
FAMILY NAMEMechera‐Ostrovsky
SIGNATUREOSTROVSKY T M
AFFILIATIONSSchool of Psychology UNSW Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia
ORCID0000-0002-8875-5832
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Cognitive abilities affect decision errors but not risk preferences

    Open AccessTehilla Mechera‐Ostrovsky, Steven Heinke et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2022

    When making risky decisions, people should evaluate the consequences and the chances of the outcome occurring. We examine the risk-preference hypothesis , which states that people’s cognitive abilities affect their evaluation of choice options and consequently their risk-taking behavior. We compared the risk-preference hypothesis against a parsimonious error hypothesis , which states that lower cognitive abilities increase decision errors. Increa…

  • The role of risk, regret, and rejoice in non‐instrumental information seeking

    Open AccessTehilla Mechera‐Ostrovsky, Shi Xian Liew et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2022References: 4

    Standard theories suggest that humans should seek information only when it can help them make better decisions. However, recent work suggests that people choose to seek information even when it cannot influence the outcome of a choice. Across three experiments, we examined how this preference for non‐instrumental information was related to the risk, regret, and rejoice associated with different choices. Experiment 1 examined how risk preference i…