Ben Gurion university

 

Selected Papers

 

Ziv, I., Leiser, D. & Levine, J. (2010) Social cognition in schizophrenia: cognitive and affective factors. Under editorial consideration, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 16(1), 71-91

Leiser, D. and Rötheli, T.F. (2010) The Financial Crisis – Economic and Psychological Perspectives. Journal or Socio-Economics 39(2), 117-119.

Leiser, D., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., & Benita, R. (2010—in press). Human Foibles or Systemic Failure - Lay Perceptions of the 2008-09 Financial Crisis Journal of Socio-Economics, 39(2), 132-141.. http://ssrn.com/paper=1530804

Leiser, D., and Ackerman, R. (2010). Heuristic and operational bases of the sense of understanding. In P. Y. Brandt, et al.  (Eds.), Festchrift in Honor of Christiane Gillièron. Geneva: Labor and Fides.

Leiser, D., & Azar, O. H. (2008). Behavioral economics and decision making: Applying insights from psychology to understand how people make economic decisions. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29(5), 613-618.

Leiser, D., Azar, O. H., & Hadar, L. (2008). Psychological construal of economic behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29(5), 762-776.

Leiser, D., & Schatzberg, D.-R. (2008). On the complexity of traffic judges' decisions. Judgment and Decision Making, 3(8), 667-678.

Leiser, D. and R. Aroch.  (2009)  Lay understanding of macroeconomic causation: the good-begets-good heuristic. Applied Psychology , 58(3), 370-384.

Leiser, D. (2009) La mondialisation vue depuis Israël - In J, Viaud and G. Poeschl.(Eds.) Images de la Mondialisation, (pp 81-92) Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Leiser, D. (2006) Logique et sources de l'adhésion aux médecines parallèles. Cahiers de Psychologie Sociale (UBO), 7, 22-35

Leiser, D., & Beth Halachmi, R. (2006). Children's understanding of market forces. Journal of Economic Psychology.27(1), 6-19.

Leiser D. (2005) La construction psychologique des liens causaux en macroéconomie. Centre de  Recherche en Psychologie (UBO), 6, 24-40

Bonshtein, U., Leiser, D. and J. Levine.(2006)  Naive theory impairment in schizophrenia - is it domain specific? Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 194(10) 753-759.

Allen, M.W., Ng, S.H. & Leiser, D.(2005)  Adult Economic Model and Values Survey: Cross-national Differences in Economic and Related General Beliefs. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26, 159-185.

Leiser D. (2005) La construction psychologique des liens causaux en macroéconomie. Cahiers de Psychology Sociale (UBO), 8, 42-59

Leiser, D., & Drori, S. (2005). Naive understanding of inflation. Journal of Socio-Economics, 34(2), 179-198.

Bastounis, M., Leiser, D., & Roland-Levy, C (2004)  . Psychosocial variables involved in the construction of lay thinking about the economy: results of a cross-national survey. Journal of Economic Psychology  25(2), 263-278

Leiser, D. & Bonshtein, U. (2003) Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia: Damaged Module or Deficit in Cognitive Coordination? A Commentary on:  Phillips and Silverstein:  Convergence of biological and psychological perspectives on cognitive coordination in schizophrenia. Behavioral and Brain Science, 26(1).

Leiser, D. (2003). Support for non-conventional medicine in Israel: Cognitive and socio-cultural coherence. Sociology of Health & Illness, 25(5), 457-480.

Moran, S., & Leiser, D. (2002). The Limits of Shape Constancy: point-to-point mapping of perspective projections of flat figures. Behaviour and Information Technology, 21(2), 97-104

Klavir R. and Leiser, D. (2002). When astronomy, biology and culture converge: Children's conceptions about birthday parties Journal of Genetic Psychology, 163, 2, 239-253.

Leiser, D. (2001) Scattered Naive Theories Why the human mind is isomorphic to the internet web New Ideas in Psychology, 19(3), 175-202.

Bereby-Meyer, Y., Leiser, D., & Meyer, J. (1999). Perception of artificial stereoscopic stimuli from an incorrect viewing point. Perception & Psychophysics,  61(8), 1555-1563.

Leiser, D. (1997). The dynamics of cumulative knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 76.

Meyer, J., Shinar, D., & Leiser, D. (1997). Multiple factors that determine performance with tables and graphs. Human-Factors, 39 (2), 268-286.

Leiser, D. (1996). Constructivism epistemology and information processing. Anuario de Psicologia, 69 93-113.

Leiser, D. (1996). Computational emergence and development emergence: a sobering survey  Intellectica, 22, 203-227.

Leiser, D. and G. Izak (1987). The money size illusion as a barometer of confidence? The case of high inflation in Israel. Journal of Economic Psychology 8(3): 347-356.

Leiser, D., Sevon, G., & Levy, D. (1990). Children's economic socialization: Summarizing the cross-cultural comparison of ten countries. Special Issue: Economic socialization. Journal of Economic Psychology, 11(4), 591-631.

Leiser, D., & Zaltsman, J. (1990). Economic socialization in the kibbutz and the town in Israel. Journal of Economic Psychology, 11(4), 557-565.

Leiser, D. (1983). Children's conceptions of economics -- The constitution of a cognitive domain. Journal of Economic Psychology, 4, 297-317.

 

Unpublished Papers

Lev, D. and Leiser, D. Subjective significance judgments: An Experimental Study of the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

Leiser D. and Biton-Bereby, L. The Segregation Effect, Time Pressure and Other Factors Affecting Argument Strength in Categorical Inductive Inference

Book and Edited Special Issues

Leiser, D., & Gillieron, C. (1990). Cognitive Science and Genetic Epistemology - a Case Study of Understanding. New York: Plenum.

Leiser D., Roland‑Lévy Ch. and Sevón G. (1991) Children's economic socialization [Special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology].

Leiser, D. & Azar, O. (2008) Motivation and Affect in Decision Making [Special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology].

Leiser, D. & Rotheli, T.F.. (2010) The Financial Crisis.[Special issue of the Journal of Socio-Economics].

 

Columns

On herd behavior (Hebrew) – column in Calcalist (2008)

An economic Entebbe operation  (Hebrew)  – column in Calcalist (2009)

 

 

 

Publications