David Gal
Biographic Data
| ID | 98737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gal |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Gal |
| SIGNATURE | GAL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3446-9304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cypriot-Levant Maritime Links in the Etesian Season: Crosswind Opportunities
From mid-May to mid-September the eastern Mediterranean is subject to the dominant Etesian winds from the northwest. Merchant ships in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1100 BCE) had limited windward ability to sail westbound passages exiting the eastern Mediterranean during this season, challenging interregional maritime links. However, opportunities exist in the eastern Mediterranean region during the same season to maintain intraregiona…
Early Appearance of Red-on-Black / Red Ware at Kabri and Achziv
This article explores the distribution of Cypriot Red-on-Black and Red-on-Red (RoB/RoR) ware in the southern Levant during the Middle Bronze I to Late Bronze I. While traditionally associated with Middle Bronze II through Late Bronze I, the study presents evidence suggesting an even earlier appearance of RoB/RoR in the southern Levant, specifically in Tel Kabri Phase DW V, corresponding to the transitional Middle Bronze I–II. The findings challen…
Windward Sailing in Antiquity: The Elephant in the Room
The study of windward sailing in antiquity is subject to discord, misunderstandings and misinterpretations. This paper attempts to broaden the understanding of windward sailing by revisiting the theoretical basis of windward sailing, performing a critical review of previous works, reconstructing historic passages with new methods to re-evaluate them being considered as unfavourable wind passages, and considering the ancient mariner’s limits of wi…
Quistclose Trusts From a Corporate Insolvency Perspective: A Positive and Normative Analysis
Leading cases show Quistclose trusts being used by companies nearing insolvency. Their use in this context raises serious normative problems: it may prefer the beneficiary to the company's other creditors, and creates a misleading impression that trust funds are in fact free of trust. Building on the emergent normative literature on Quistclose trusts, we first examine which Quistclose trusts are currently allowed under company law and the law of …
Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity
Measuring potential coastal sailing mobility with the loose-footed square sail
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity
The use of detailed meteorological data with sailing software, in conjunction with sailing the Ma'agan Mikhael II replica ship, has engendered the development of a method for examining maritime mobility of single-masted square sail Mediterranean merchantmen in the Graeco-Roman period, with the initial objective of mapping direct, open sea, return sailing routes from the Levant that a priori lie contrary to the prevailing wind. Many quantitative w…
Act boldly: Important life decisions, courage, and the motivated pursuit of risk
How do people respond to risk in important life decisions? For example, when presented with the opportunity to leave one's job to start a business-a risky proposition for most-or to stay put-often a safer course of action-what do people choose? The current work explores the idea that important life decisions offer people the opportunity to display a highly valued psychological characteristic: courage. Specifically, important life decisions often …
Abandon Statistical Significance
We discuss problems the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) paradigm poses for replication and more broadly in the biomedical and social sciences as well as how these problems remain unresolved by proposals involving modified p-value thresholds, confidence intervals, and Bayes factors. We then discuss our own proposal, which is to abandon statistical significance. We recommend dropping the NHST paradigm—and the p-value thresholds intrinsi…
Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly? The Green-Feminine Stereotype and Its Effect on Sustainable Consumption
Why are men less likely than women to embrace environmentally friendly products and behaviors? Whereas prior research attributes this gender gap in sustainable consumption to personality differences between the sexes, we propose that it may also partially stem from a prevalent association between green behavior and femininity, and a corresponding stereotype (held by both men and women) that green consumers are more feminine. Building on prior fin…
From Compensatory Consumption to Adaptive Consumption: The Role of Self-Acceptance in Resolving Self-Deficits
Recent research in consumer behavior has documented the phenomenon of compensatory consumption, whereby individuals respond to information about deficits in their abilities, skills, status, and so forth by consuming products that symbolically compensate for the self-deficits. However, the examination of factors that might lead individuals to take more productive action in response to self-deficit information is limited. This article identifies se…
A Mouth-Watering Prospect: Salivation to Material Reward
The term "hunger" and terms referring to its physiological correlates, notably "salivation, " are used to refer to desire for material rewards across languages and cultures. Is such usage is "merely metaphorical, " or can exposure to material reward cues evoke a salivary response? Results of an experiment show that individuals salivate to money when induced to experience a low power state but not when induced to experience a high power state. A s…
Grapes of Wrath: The Angry Effects of Self-Control
Prior research has shown that exerting self-control can lead to increased aggression. In the present research, we find that exerting self-control is associated with angry behavior more broadly. In particular, using a “matched-choice paradigm,” we find that after exerting self-control people exhibit increased preference for anger-themed content, greater interest in faces exhibiting anger, greater endorsement of anger-framed appeals, and greater ir…
Bringing Us Together or Driving Us Apart: The Effect of Soliciting Consumer Input on Consumers' Propensity to Transact with an Organization
This research examines a novel process by which soliciting consumer input can affect subsequent purchase and engagement, namely, by changing consumers’ subjective perception of their relationship with the organization. We contrast different types of consumer input and propose that, relative to no input, soliciting advice tends to have an intimacy effect whereby the individual feels closer to the organization, resulting in increases in subsequent …
Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly? The Green-Feminine Stereotype and Its Effect on Sustainable Consumption
Why are men less likely than women to embrace environmentally friendly products and behaviors? Whereas prior research attributes this gender gap in sustainable consumption to personality differences between the sexes, we propose that it may also partially stem from a prevalent association between green behavior and femininity, and a corresponding stereotype (held by both men and women) that green consumers are more feminine. Building on prior fin…
From Compensatory Consumption to Adaptive Consumption: The Role of Self-Acceptance in Resolving Self-Deficits
Recent research in consumer behavior has documented the phenomenon of compensatory consumption, whereby individuals respond to information about deficits in their abilities, skills, status, and so forth by consuming products that symbolically compensate for the self-deficits. However, the examination of factors that might lead individuals to take more productive action in response to self-deficit information is limited. This article identifies se…
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity
The use of detailed meteorological data with sailing software, in conjunction with sailing the Ma'agan Mikhael II replica ship, has engendered the development of a method for examining maritime mobility of single-masted square sail Mediterranean merchantmen in the Graeco-Roman period, with the initial objective of mapping direct, open sea, return sailing routes from the Levant that a priori lie contrary to the prevailing wind. Many quantitative w…
Grapes of Wrath: The Angry Effects of Self-Control
Prior research has shown that exerting self-control can lead to increased aggression. In the present research, we find that exerting self-control is associated with angry behavior more broadly. In particular, using a “matched-choice paradigm,” we find that after exerting self-control people exhibit increased preference for anger-themed content, greater interest in faces exhibiting anger, greater endorsement of anger-framed appeals, and greater ir…
Measuring potential coastal sailing mobility with the loose-footed square sail
A Mouth-Watering Prospect: Salivation to Material Reward
The term "hunger" and terms referring to its physiological correlates, notably "salivation, " are used to refer to desire for material rewards across languages and cultures. Is such usage is "merely metaphorical, " or can exposure to material reward cues evoke a salivary response? Results of an experiment show that individuals salivate to money when induced to experience a low power state but not when induced to experience a high power state. A s…
Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity
Windward Sailing in Antiquity: The Elephant in the Room
The study of windward sailing in antiquity is subject to discord, misunderstandings and misinterpretations. This paper attempts to broaden the understanding of windward sailing by revisiting the theoretical basis of windward sailing, performing a critical review of previous works, reconstructing historic passages with new methods to re-evaluate them being considered as unfavourable wind passages, and considering the ancient mariner’s limits of wi…
Bringing Us Together or Driving Us Apart: The Effect of Soliciting Consumer Input on Consumers' Propensity to Transact with an Organization
This research examines a novel process by which soliciting consumer input can affect subsequent purchase and engagement, namely, by changing consumers’ subjective perception of their relationship with the organization. We contrast different types of consumer input and propose that, relative to no input, soliciting advice tends to have an intimacy effect whereby the individual feels closer to the organization, resulting in increases in subsequent …
Grapes of Wrath: The Angry Effects of Self-Control
Prior research has shown that exerting self-control can lead to increased aggression. In the present research, we find that exerting self-control is associated with angry behavior more broadly. In particular, using a “matched-choice paradigm,” we find that after exerting self-control people exhibit increased preference for anger-themed content, greater interest in faces exhibiting anger, greater endorsement of anger-framed appeals, and greater ir…
Bringing Us Together or Driving Us Apart: The Effect of Soliciting Consumer Input on Consumers' Propensity to Transact with an Organization
This research examines a novel process by which soliciting consumer input can affect subsequent purchase and engagement, namely, by changing consumers’ subjective perception of their relationship with the organization. We contrast different types of consumer input and propose that, relative to no input, soliciting advice tends to have an intimacy effect whereby the individual feels closer to the organization, resulting in increases in subsequent …
A Mouth-Watering Prospect: Salivation to Material Reward
The term "hunger" and terms referring to its physiological correlates, notably "salivation, " are used to refer to desire for material rewards across languages and cultures. Is such usage is "merely metaphorical, " or can exposure to material reward cues evoke a salivary response? Results of an experiment show that individuals salivate to money when induced to experience a low power state but not when induced to experience a high power state. A s…
From Compensatory Consumption to Adaptive Consumption: The Role of Self-Acceptance in Resolving Self-Deficits
Recent research in consumer behavior has documented the phenomenon of compensatory consumption, whereby individuals respond to information about deficits in their abilities, skills, status, and so forth by consuming products that symbolically compensate for the self-deficits. However, the examination of factors that might lead individuals to take more productive action in response to self-deficit information is limited. This article identifies se…
Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly? The Green-Feminine Stereotype and Its Effect on Sustainable Consumption
Why are men less likely than women to embrace environmentally friendly products and behaviors? Whereas prior research attributes this gender gap in sustainable consumption to personality differences between the sexes, we propose that it may also partially stem from a prevalent association between green behavior and femininity, and a corresponding stereotype (held by both men and women) that green consumers are more feminine. Building on prior fin…
Abandon Statistical Significance
We discuss problems the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) paradigm poses for replication and more broadly in the biomedical and social sciences as well as how these problems remain unresolved by proposals involving modified p-value thresholds, confidence intervals, and Bayes factors. We then discuss our own proposal, which is to abandon statistical significance. We recommend dropping the NHST paradigm—and the p-value thresholds intrinsi…
Measuring potential coastal sailing mobility with the loose-footed square sail
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity
The use of detailed meteorological data with sailing software, in conjunction with sailing the Ma'agan Mikhael II replica ship, has engendered the development of a method for examining maritime mobility of single-masted square sail Mediterranean merchantmen in the Graeco-Roman period, with the initial objective of mapping direct, open sea, return sailing routes from the Levant that a priori lie contrary to the prevailing wind. Many quantitative w…
Act boldly: Important life decisions, courage, and the motivated pursuit of risk
How do people respond to risk in important life decisions? For example, when presented with the opportunity to leave one's job to start a business-a risky proposition for most-or to stay put-often a safer course of action-what do people choose? The current work explores the idea that important life decisions offer people the opportunity to display a highly valued psychological characteristic: courage. Specifically, important life decisions often …
Quistclose Trusts From a Corporate Insolvency Perspective: A Positive and Normative Analysis
Leading cases show Quistclose trusts being used by companies nearing insolvency. Their use in this context raises serious normative problems: it may prefer the beneficiary to the company's other creditors, and creates a misleading impression that trust funds are in fact free of trust. Building on the emergent normative literature on Quistclose trusts, we first examine which Quistclose trusts are currently allowed under company law and the law of …
Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity
Windward Sailing in Antiquity: The Elephant in the Room
The study of windward sailing in antiquity is subject to discord, misunderstandings and misinterpretations. This paper attempts to broaden the understanding of windward sailing by revisiting the theoretical basis of windward sailing, performing a critical review of previous works, reconstructing historic passages with new methods to re-evaluate them being considered as unfavourable wind passages, and considering the ancient mariner’s limits of wi…
Cypriot-Levant Maritime Links in the Etesian Season: Crosswind Opportunities
From mid-May to mid-September the eastern Mediterranean is subject to the dominant Etesian winds from the northwest. Merchant ships in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1100 BCE) had limited windward ability to sail westbound passages exiting the eastern Mediterranean during this season, challenging interregional maritime links. However, opportunities exist in the eastern Mediterranean region during the same season to maintain intraregiona…
Early Appearance of Red-on-Black / Red Ware at Kabri and Achziv
This article explores the distribution of Cypriot Red-on-Black and Red-on-Red (RoB/RoR) ware in the southern Levant during the Middle Bronze I to Late Bronze I. While traditionally associated with Middle Bronze II through Late Bronze I, the study presents evidence suggesting an even earlier appearance of RoB/RoR in the southern Levant, specifically in Tel Kabri Phase DW V, corresponding to the transitional Middle Bronze I–II. The findings challen…
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Mediterranean climate (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works)