Education

 

B.A. 1983 - 1984, 1986 - 1988 (with Honors) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Dept. of Behavioral Sciences 
M.A. 1988 - 1992 (with Honors) - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Psychology, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences 
Advisor: Professor David Leiser 
Title: Perception of Artificial Stereoscopic Stimuli from an Incorrect Viewing Point 
D.Sc. 1994-1997 Technion Israel Institute of Technology - Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management 
Advisor: Professor Ido Erev 
Title: On the Relative Value of Reinforcements: The Effect of Framing on Learning in Binary Choice Tasks 
Postdoctorate 1999 – 2001 
Research Fellow Harvard Business School, Division of Negotiation, Organization and Markets, work with Professor Al Roth (Nobel laureate in economics 2012).

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Pedagogy

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Introduction to Statistics – B.A. - Sapir College 
Statistical Inference – B.A. - Sapir College 
Regression and Linear Models – B.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Combined Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics – B.A. - BenGurion University of the Negev 
Thinking and Decision Making – B.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Cognitive Psychology – B.A. – Sapir College 
Research Methods in the Social Sciences – M.A. – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Psychological Aspects of Decision Making – M.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Decision Making in Groups – M.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Children’s Decision Making – M.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution – M.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Social Cognition – M.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Social Dilemmas – M.A. - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Publications

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1. Leiser, D., Bereby, Y., & Melkman, A. (1994). A comparison of display methods for spatial point layout. Behavior & Information Technology, 14, 135-142. 

2. Leiser, D., Bereby, Y., & Melkman, A. (1995). Minimizing Distortions – Seating requirements for stereo projection rooms. Ergonomics, 38, 1231-1239. 

3. Bereby-Meyer, Y., &Erev, I. (1998). On learning to become a successful loser: A comparison of alternative abstractions of learning processes in the loss domain. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 42, 266-286. 

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

5. Erev, I., Bereby-Meyer, Y., & Roth, A. (1999). The effect of adding a constant to all payoffs: Experimental investigation, and implications for reinforcement learning. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 39, 111-128 

6. Bereby-Meyer, Y., Meyer, J., &Flascher, O. (2002). Prospect theory analysis of guessing in multiple choice tests.Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15, 313-327. 

7. Bereby-Meyer, Y., Meyer, J., &Budescu, D. V. (2003). Decision making under internal uncertainty: The case of multiple-choice tests. ActaPsychologica, 2, 207-220. 

8. Bereby-Meyer, Y., Assor, A., & Katz, I. (2004). Children’s choice strategies: The effects of age and task demands. Cognitive Development, 19, 127-146. 

9. Bereby-Meyer, Y., Moran, S., & Unger-Aviram, E. (2004). When performance goals deter performance: Transfer of skills in integrative negotiations.Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 93, 142-154. 

10. Chen Idson, L., Chugh, D., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Moran, S., Grosskopf, B., &Bazerman, M. (2004).Overcoming focusing failures in competitive environment.Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17, 159-172. 

11. Bereby-Meyer, Y., &Grosskopf, B. (2004). How manipulable are fairness perceptions? The effect of adding irrelevant alternatives.Research on Economic Inequality, 11, 43-53. 

12. Bereby-Meyer, Y., & Niederle, M. (2005). Fairness in bargaining.Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 56, 173-186. 

13. Bereby-Meyer, Y., & Kaplan, A. (2005). The effect of motivational goals and age on the ability to transfer knowledge.Contemporary Educational Psychology, 30, 1-22. 

14. Katz, I., Assor, A., Kanat-Maymon, Y., &Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2006). Interest as a motivational resource: Feedback and gender matter, but interest makes the difference. Social Psychology of Education, 9, 27-42. 

15. Bereby-Meyer, Y., & Roth, A. (2006). The speed of learning in noisy games: Partial reinforcement and the sustainability of cooperation. American Economic Review, 96, 1029-1042. 

16. Grosskopf, B., Bereby-Meyer Y., &Bazerman, M. (2007). The robustness of the winner's curse phenomenon.Theory and Decision, 389-418. 

17. Bereby-Meyer, Y., &Grosskopf, B. (2008). Overcoming the winner’s curse: an adaptive learning perspective.Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 15-27. 

18. Moran, S., Bereby-Meyer Y., &Bazerman. M. (2008).Stretching the effectiveness of analogical training in negotiations: Learning core principles for creating value.Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 2, 99-134. 

19. Katz, I., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Assor, A., &Danziger, S. (2010). Children’s Adaptive Pre-Decisional Search Behavior: Effects of Memory and Number of Alternatives. Journal of Economic Psychology, 1, 17-24. 

20.Bereby-Meyer, Y., Moran, S., &Zetler, L. (2010). The effect of debriefing and goal orientation on the transfer of integrative negotiation strategies.Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 1, 64-86. 

21. Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2012). Reciprocity and uncertainty. Comment on Francesco Guala: Reciprocity: Weak or Strong? What Punishment Experiments Do (and Do Not) Demonstrate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 18-19. 

22. Shalvi, S., Eldar, O., &Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2012). Honesty requires time (and lack of justifications). Psychological Science, 23, 1264-1270. 

23. Keinan, R. &Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2012). "Leaving it to chance" – Passive risk taking in everyday life. Judgment and Decision Making, 7, 705-715. 

24. Halali, E., Bereby-Meyer, Y., &Leiser, D. (2013). Pitfall or Scaffolding? Starting-point pull in configuration decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 502-514. 

25. Bereby-Meyer, Y., &Fiks, S. (2013). Changes in Negative Reciprocity as a Function of Age.Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26, 397-403. 

26. Bereby-Meyer, Y., Moran, S., Grosskopf, B. &Chugh, D. (2013). Choosing between lotteries: remarkable coordination without communication.Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26, 338-347. 

27. Dorfman, A., Bereby-Meyer, Y., & Moran, S. (2013). When feeling skillful impairs coordination in a lottery selection task.PLOS ONE, 8, 1-6. 

28. Halali, E., Bereby-Meyer, Y., &Meiran, N. (in press). Between rationality and reciprocity: The social bright side of self-control failure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 

29. Halali, E., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Ockenfels, A., (2013). Is it all about the self? The effect of self-control shortage on ultimatum game proposers.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,7, 240. 

30. Shalvi, S., Eldar, O., &Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2013). Honesty requires time-a reply to Foerster et al. (2013). Frontiers in psychology 01/2013; 4:634. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00634 

31. Zimerman, L., Shalvi, S. &Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2014). Self-reported ethical risk taking tendencies predict actual dishonesty .Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 58-64. 

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Media Coverage

Shalvi, S.,Eldar, O., & Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2012). Honesty requires time (and lack of justifications). Psychological Science, 23, 1264-1270. 
Radio and TV interviews & Coverage: 
2012: London & Kirshenbaum 3.4. Israeli TV channel 10. 
Selected Print Coverage 
2012: The psychology of morality: time to be honest, March 31st. The Economist. 
2012 : When Do We Lie? When We’re Short on Time and Long on Reasons, 
September 4th. Press release: APS (Association for Psychological Science). 
2012: Why we lie: Time is a factor, study suggests. November 9th, Huffington Post.
2012: Lying is all in the timing. November 9th, Toronto Sun.