Ignacio Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 761326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ignacio Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ignacio |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ariel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1818-3346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Predicting Israeli Public Support for Capital Punishment: Crime Type and Severity, Offender, Observer, and Victim Characteristics
This study investigates whether crime type and severity, as well as offender, observer, and victim characteristics predict public attitudes towards capital punishment in Israel. We surveyed Israeli citizens by phone. A random and representative sample of 594 participants, ages 20 to 74, read scenarios illustrating crimes and were asked about their perception of capital punishment as an appropriate punishment. The results indicate that most partic…
Punitiveness Toward Terrorists: Terrorist Act Type and Harmfulness, Terrorist Ethnicity and Gender, and Participants’ Authoritarian Tendency
This study examines the relationships between public punitiveness toward terrorists and factors such as terrorist act type, harmfulness, terrorist ethnicity, and gender, and participant’s authoritarian tendencies. An online survey with 679 Israeli Jewish and Arab participants manipulated terrorist act type, harmfulness, gender, and ethnicity. Participants rated crime seriousness, punishment severity, imprisonment length (IL), support for capital …
Can Massive Religious Festival Celebrations Encourage a Faster Spread of a Pandemic? The Case of Covid-19 in Israel
This paper attempts to evaluate how massive religious festival celebrations can encourage the faster spread of any pandemic according to our problem statement, such as the case of COVID-19. For example, we evaluate Israel’s three major religions, namely Judaism, Christianity, and the Islamic festival celebrations, respectively. Firstly, we have the traditional Jewish festivities such as Hanukkah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Rosh Hashanah. In the Chri…
Predicting happiness in the aftermath of national trauma through fear of terrorism: The serial mediation of negative and positive self-labeling and stress
This study contributes to the understanding of the distinction between trait happiness and state happiness, highlighting the link between fear of terrorism and lower levels of state happiness and its relevance to mental well-being. It also emphasizes the crucial role of self-labeling in promoting emotional well-being and happiness. Our model contributes to theoretical frameworks of posttraumatic adaptation and resilience by emphasizing the import…
“I feel erased: ” A qualitative analysis of grandparent experiences of parental alienation
Perceived suspect credibility: A Brief Report on the Association Between Suspect and Observer Gender
The current study examined the influence of gender on perceived credibility in an international drug trafficking setting. Two hundred law students (approximately half female) assessed a suspect’s credibility in a drug trafficking investigation. The participants read a transcript provided by either a male or a female suspect and rated a suspect as truthful/untruthful and their confidence level in this rating. The combined score represents credibil…
Stress, anxiety, and depression in times of Covid-19: Gender, individual quarantine, pandemic duration and employment
Objectives: This study explores the inter-relationship between emotional distress in adults and gender, quarantine experiences, pandemic duration, and employment. Methods: different personal and academic social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter). The survey was administered using the online survey portal Google Forms. Participants addressed questions about their socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, age, family st…
Green Criminology and Rhetoric of Public Opinion: Online Commenting on Gas Rigs Near Israel's Coast
This study identifies the key themes in online commenting on news reports about gas rig placements near Israel’s coastline. We employed an inductive thematic analysis to study 1276 comments and three main themes emerged from the analysis: (a) views on protesting against the rigs; (b) criminal labels; and (c) dangers of nearshore rigs. Although the majority of the comments supported the protest against the rigs, there was no consensus. The comment…
Happiness during a mass trauma: Predicting happiness during the Covid-19 pandemic through function, stress, anxiety, and coping
This model indicates that anxiety, stress, function, and emotion-focused coping contribute to predicting happiness during mass trauma events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Differences in attitudes toward terrorists: Type of terrorist act, terrorist ethnicity, and observer gender and cultural background
To explore the interrelationship between terrorist acts, terrorist ethnicity, and observer gender and cultural background in Israel, we recruited 211 participants aged 19–75 years. The majority were male (63%). As for the ethnic and religious cultural background, 40% were Jewish, 40% Druze, and 20% Muslim. The participants answered questions about their demographic characteristics, read three scenarios of terrorist acts, addressed attitudes towar…
Attitudes toward food fraud, food safety concerns, national culture, and self-labeling as a victim
This article examined a model that focused on the association between attitudes towards food fraud (AFF) and such factors as food safety concerns, self-labelling as a victim and national culture. The online survey included 106 German and 363 Israeli respondents and questionnaires on attitudes towards food fraud, food safety concerns, self-labelling as a victim of food fraud, and sociodemographic characteristics. The results indicate that national…
Modes of victim blaming in a case of stabbing: Victim and offender ethnicity and observer ethnicity and religious affiliation
Attitudes toward food fraud in Israel and Germany
Purpose The current research focused on attitudes toward food fraud (AFF) and examined the impact of types of food fraud, gender differences, and country of residence. Design/methodology/approach A convenience sample of German ( n = 151) and Israeli ( n = 496) participants was recruited through an online survey. They filled out a sociodemographic questionnaire and AFF scale, which includes three subscales: organic fraud, kosher fraud, and sprayin…
Rape narratives analysis through natural language processing: Survivor self-label, narrative time span, faith, and rape terminology
The results suggest that addressing rape-victim faith and the use of rape terminology in the depiction of their sexual trauma may be beneficial for the therapeutic process and postrape recovery. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Viruism: The need for a new term describing Covid-19 impact in context of viral victimization
Objective: COVID-19 is the current viral pandemic. Its consequences are multifaceted and refer to individual and public physical, mental, and economic states. Therefore, viral outbreaks raise many fears and concerns, both among policymakers and individuals. In light of these fears, we explore the central aspects of viral victimization, compared to another significant threat of this century: terrorism. Analysis: There are many similarities between…
Online Commenting About a Victim of Female-on-Male Rape: The Case of Shia LaBeouf’s Sexual Victimization
Predicting professional quality of life among professional and volunteer caregivers
This study is one of the few that has compared volunteers' professional quality of life (PQL), which includes secondary traumatic stress (STS), burnout, and compassion satisfaction (CS), to those of professional caregivers. In addition, the research compared the ethical behavior of volunteers with that of professional therapists and examined the connection between years of experience, ethical behavior, and PQL. One hundred eighty-three volunteers…
Los movimientos rurales en México y la Reforma Agraria: Estudio De Cuatro Ejidos
Ignacio Levy, Los movimientos rurales en México y la Reforma Agraria: estudio de cuatro ejidos, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 39, No. 3, Cuestiones agrarias en America Latina (Jul. - Sep., 1977), pp. 951-984
Differences in attitudes toward terrorists: Type of terrorist act, terrorist ethnicity, and observer gender and cultural background
To explore the interrelationship between terrorist acts, terrorist ethnicity, and observer gender and cultural background in Israel, we recruited 211 participants aged 19–75 years. The majority were male (63%). As for the ethnic and religious cultural background, 40% were Jewish, 40% Druze, and 20% Muslim. The participants answered questions about their demographic characteristics, read three scenarios of terrorist acts, addressed attitudes towar…
Online Commenting About a Victim of Female-on-Male Rape: The Case of Shia LaBeouf’s Sexual Victimization
Perceived suspect credibility: A Brief Report on the Association Between Suspect and Observer Gender
The current study examined the influence of gender on perceived credibility in an international drug trafficking setting. Two hundred law students (approximately half female) assessed a suspect’s credibility in a drug trafficking investigation. The participants read a transcript provided by either a male or a female suspect and rated a suspect as truthful/untruthful and their confidence level in this rating. The combined score represents credibil…
Modes of victim blaming in a case of stabbing: Victim and offender ethnicity and observer ethnicity and religious affiliation
Los movimientos rurales en México y la Reforma Agraria: Estudio De Cuatro Ejidos
Ignacio Levy, Los movimientos rurales en México y la Reforma Agraria: estudio de cuatro ejidos, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 39, No. 3, Cuestiones agrarias en America Latina (Jul. - Sep., 1977), pp. 951-984
Predicting professional quality of life among professional and volunteer caregivers
This study is one of the few that has compared volunteers' professional quality of life (PQL), which includes secondary traumatic stress (STS), burnout, and compassion satisfaction (CS), to those of professional caregivers. In addition, the research compared the ethical behavior of volunteers with that of professional therapists and examined the connection between years of experience, ethical behavior, and PQL. One hundred eighty-three volunteers…
Online Commenting About a Victim of Female-on-Male Rape: The Case of Shia LaBeouf’s Sexual Victimization
Attitudes toward food fraud in Israel and Germany
Purpose The current research focused on attitudes toward food fraud (AFF) and examined the impact of types of food fraud, gender differences, and country of residence. Design/methodology/approach A convenience sample of German ( n = 151) and Israeli ( n = 496) participants was recruited through an online survey. They filled out a sociodemographic questionnaire and AFF scale, which includes three subscales: organic fraud, kosher fraud, and sprayin…
Rape narratives analysis through natural language processing: Survivor self-label, narrative time span, faith, and rape terminology
The results suggest that addressing rape-victim faith and the use of rape terminology in the depiction of their sexual trauma may be beneficial for the therapeutic process and postrape recovery. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Viruism: The need for a new term describing Covid-19 impact in context of viral victimization
Objective: COVID-19 is the current viral pandemic. Its consequences are multifaceted and refer to individual and public physical, mental, and economic states. Therefore, viral outbreaks raise many fears and concerns, both among policymakers and individuals. In light of these fears, we explore the central aspects of viral victimization, compared to another significant threat of this century: terrorism. Analysis: There are many similarities between…
Modes of victim blaming in a case of stabbing: Victim and offender ethnicity and observer ethnicity and religious affiliation
Stress, anxiety, and depression in times of Covid-19: Gender, individual quarantine, pandemic duration and employment
Objectives: This study explores the inter-relationship between emotional distress in adults and gender, quarantine experiences, pandemic duration, and employment. Methods: different personal and academic social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter). The survey was administered using the online survey portal Google Forms. Participants addressed questions about their socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, age, family st…
Green Criminology and Rhetoric of Public Opinion: Online Commenting on Gas Rigs Near Israel's Coast
This study identifies the key themes in online commenting on news reports about gas rig placements near Israel’s coastline. We employed an inductive thematic analysis to study 1276 comments and three main themes emerged from the analysis: (a) views on protesting against the rigs; (b) criminal labels; and (c) dangers of nearshore rigs. Although the majority of the comments supported the protest against the rigs, there was no consensus. The comment…
Happiness during a mass trauma: Predicting happiness during the Covid-19 pandemic through function, stress, anxiety, and coping
This model indicates that anxiety, stress, function, and emotion-focused coping contribute to predicting happiness during mass trauma events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Differences in attitudes toward terrorists: Type of terrorist act, terrorist ethnicity, and observer gender and cultural background
To explore the interrelationship between terrorist acts, terrorist ethnicity, and observer gender and cultural background in Israel, we recruited 211 participants aged 19–75 years. The majority were male (63%). As for the ethnic and religious cultural background, 40% were Jewish, 40% Druze, and 20% Muslim. The participants answered questions about their demographic characteristics, read three scenarios of terrorist acts, addressed attitudes towar…
Attitudes toward food fraud, food safety concerns, national culture, and self-labeling as a victim
This article examined a model that focused on the association between attitudes towards food fraud (AFF) and such factors as food safety concerns, self-labelling as a victim and national culture. The online survey included 106 German and 363 Israeli respondents and questionnaires on attitudes towards food fraud, food safety concerns, self-labelling as a victim of food fraud, and sociodemographic characteristics. The results indicate that national…
“I feel erased: ” A qualitative analysis of grandparent experiences of parental alienation
Perceived suspect credibility: A Brief Report on the Association Between Suspect and Observer Gender
The current study examined the influence of gender on perceived credibility in an international drug trafficking setting. Two hundred law students (approximately half female) assessed a suspect’s credibility in a drug trafficking investigation. The participants read a transcript provided by either a male or a female suspect and rated a suspect as truthful/untruthful and their confidence level in this rating. The combined score represents credibil…
Predicting Israeli Public Support for Capital Punishment: Crime Type and Severity, Offender, Observer, and Victim Characteristics
This study investigates whether crime type and severity, as well as offender, observer, and victim characteristics predict public attitudes towards capital punishment in Israel. We surveyed Israeli citizens by phone. A random and representative sample of 594 participants, ages 20 to 74, read scenarios illustrating crimes and were asked about their perception of capital punishment as an appropriate punishment. The results indicate that most partic…
Punitiveness Toward Terrorists: Terrorist Act Type and Harmfulness, Terrorist Ethnicity and Gender, and Participants’ Authoritarian Tendency
This study examines the relationships between public punitiveness toward terrorists and factors such as terrorist act type, harmfulness, terrorist ethnicity, and gender, and participant’s authoritarian tendencies. An online survey with 679 Israeli Jewish and Arab participants manipulated terrorist act type, harmfulness, gender, and ethnicity. Participants rated crime seriousness, punishment severity, imprisonment length (IL), support for capital …
Can Massive Religious Festival Celebrations Encourage a Faster Spread of a Pandemic? The Case of Covid-19 in Israel
This paper attempts to evaluate how massive religious festival celebrations can encourage the faster spread of any pandemic according to our problem statement, such as the case of COVID-19. For example, we evaluate Israel’s three major religions, namely Judaism, Christianity, and the Islamic festival celebrations, respectively. Firstly, we have the traditional Jewish festivities such as Hanukkah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Rosh Hashanah. In the Chri…
Predicting happiness in the aftermath of national trauma through fear of terrorism: The serial mediation of negative and positive self-labeling and stress
This study contributes to the understanding of the distinction between trait happiness and state happiness, highlighting the link between fear of terrorism and lower levels of state happiness and its relevance to mental well-being. It also emphasizes the crucial role of self-labeling in promoting emotional well-being and happiness. Our model contributes to theoretical frameworks of posttraumatic adaptation and resilience by emphasizing the import…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Pandemic (4 works)