Moty Amar's Publications

Welcome to the Publications page of Moty Amar PhD. Here, you'll find a comprehensive list of his scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and works in progress. Amar's research has been published in esteemed academic journals, contributing to the fields of consumer behavior, psychology, and marketing.

(Selective) Awards and Prizes

  • "The Roles of Market Sensing and Tolerance for Failure”

    The Best Conference Track Competitive Paper Award (2023).

  • “Winning the Battle but Losing the War: The Psychology of Debt Management”

    Top 10 List of All-Time Downloads in the SRN. Downloaded 943 times.

  • “How Counterfeits Infect Genuine Products: The Role of Moral Disgust”

    On the Top 20 Most Downloaded Papers. 

  • "Pain & Preferences: Observed Decisional Conflict and the Convergence of Preferences"

    The Franco Nicosia ACR Best Competitive Paper Award (2015).

  • “Winning the Battle but Losing the War: The Psychology of Debt Management”

    Top 10 List of All-Time Downloads in the SRN.

FT50

The list of the 50 best business journals according to the Financial Times. This list is made base on the ranking of the best Global MBA, Executive MBA and Online MBA in the world.

  • How Counterfeits Infect Genuine Products: The Role of Moral Disgust

    Amar, M., Ariely, D., Carmon, Z., & Yang, H. (2018). Journal of Consumer Psychology, 28(2), 329-343. 

  • Pain and Preferences: Observed Decisional Conflict and the Convergence of Preferences

    Schrift R Y & Amar M. (2015). Journal of Consumer Research, 42 (4): 515-534.

  • “Winning the Battle but Losing the War: The Psychology of Debt Management.”

    Amar M., Ariely D., Ayal S., Cryder C & Rick S. (2011), Journal of Marketing Research, 48, 38-50.

Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

(Selective) Publication

Listening to Understand: The Role of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Attitude Depolarization During Disagreements.

Itzchakov, G., Weinstein, N., Leary, M., Saluk, D., & Amar, M. (Forthcoming).

  • Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 

The Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Scale: Cross cultural Measurement Invariance and Associations with Fear of COVID-19 across 16 Countries. 

Karakulak, A., Shukla, S., Bender, M., Wai. L. V. Y., Jovanović, V. . ., Amar, M., . ., & Gkomez, A. (Forthcoming).

  • Journal: Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

Connection Heals Wounds: Feeling Listened to Reduces Speakers’ Loneliness Following a Social Rejection Disclosure.

Itzchakov, G., Weinstein, N., Saluk.D. & Amar, M. (Forthcoming).

  • Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 

Financial reporting misconduct: Evidence from the field.‏

Amar M., Ester Chen, Ilanit Gavious and Hagit Weihs (2022).

  • Journal: Finance Research Letters

Moving towards Health: Cuing Food Healthiness and Appeal.

Amar M., Gvili Y & Tal Aner (2021).

  • Journal:Journal of Social Marketing

The psychology of task management: The smaller tasks trap.

Rusou, Z., Amar, M., & Ayal, S. (2020).

  • Journal: Judgment and Decision Making

Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes?

Itzchakov, G., Weinstein, N., Legate, N., & Amar, M. (2020).

  • Journal: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Don't let the facts ruin a good story: The effect of vivid reviews on attitude ambivalence and its coping mechanisms.

Itzchakov, G., Amar, M., & Van Harreveld, F. (2020).

  • Journal: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 

How Counterfeits Infect Genuine Products: The Role of Moral Disgust.

Amar, M., Ariely, D., Carmon, Z., & Yang, H. (2018).

  • Journal: Journal of Consumer Psychology, 28(2), 329-343. (Included in FT50 list) 

Intelligence and the repayment of high-and low-consequences debt. 

Ganzach, Y & Amar, M. (2017).

  • Journal: Personality and Individual Differences.

Moving up in taste: Enhanced projected taste and freshness of moving food products‏.

Gvili, Y., Tal A., Amar M. & Wansink B. (2017).

  • Journal: Psychology and Marketing.

Can Political Cookies Leave a Bad Taste in One’s Mouth? Political Ideology Influences Taste.

Tal A., Gvili Y., Amar M & Wansink B. (2017).

  • Journal: European Journal of Marketing.

Pain and Preferences: Observed Decisional Conflict and the Convergence of Preferences.

Schrift R Y & Amar M. (2015).

  • Journal: Journal of Consumer Research.

Fresh from the tree: Implied motion improves food evaluation.

Gvili Y., Tal A., Amar M., Hallak Y, Wansink B., Giblin M & Bommelaer C. (2015).

  • Journal: Food Quality and Preference.

"Winning the Battle but Losing the War: The Psychology of Debt Management.”

Amar M., Ariely D., Ayal S., Cryder C & Rick S. (2011).

  • Journal: Journal of Marketing Research. (Included in FT50 list).

Predicting World Cup results: Do goals seem more likely when they pay off?

Bar-Hillel, M., Budescu, D.V. & Amar, M. (2008).

  • Journal: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Chapters in Scientific Books

1. (*) Ori Be'eri, Haim Kedar-Levy and Moty Amar (2019), The effect of gender differences on the emergence of the disposition effect, in Behavioral finance: the coming of age, World Scientific Publishers. 

2. (*) Amar Moty and Kroll Yoram (2016), " Factors Affecting The Impact of Investors' Horizon on Asset Allocation Decisions: An experimental exploration," in Behavioral Finance: Sophistication, Gender, Attention, Media, and Culture Effects on Investors' Decisions, World Scientific Publishers.

3. (*) Rusou, Z., Amar, M. & Ayal, S. (2016). Gender and personal finance management. In Venezia, I. (Ed.). Behavioral Finance:'Where Do Investors ''Biases Come From?'. World Scientific, pp 193-216.

4. Bar-Hillel Maya, Budescu D.V., & Amar Moty (2007) "Wishful thinking in predicting world cup results: Still elusive", In J.I. Krueger (ed.), Rationality and social responsibility: Essays in honor of Robyn M. Dawes. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 175 – 186. (Citations-11).

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