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    Cuteness in avatar design: a cross-cultural study on the influence of baby schema features and other visual characteristics

    The concept of cuteness, which can evoke positive emotions in people, is an essential aspect to consider in artificial intelligence design. This study aimed to investigate whether the use of baby schema design...

    Shiri Lieber-Milo, Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Tomoko Yonezawa in AI & SOCIETY (2024)

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    The ethics of suicide research online: a consensual protocol for crowdsourcing-based studies on suicide

    Suicide, one of the top causes of life lost in developed countries, is a major health problem, especially today, with the dramatic increase in mental health difficulties that was triggered during the Coronavir...

    Yaakov Ophir, Yair Amichai Hamburger in Humanities and Social Sciences Communicati… (2024)

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    Characteristics of online user-generated text predict the emotional intelligence of individuals

    Emotional intelligence is a well-established indicator of performance and the ability to maintain successful social relationships. Moreover, it is potentially an important factor in social dynamics occurring o...

    Yaniv Dover, Yair Amichai-Hamburger in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Who Accepts Information Measures?

    Are people intuitions regarding the conceptual notion of information in agreement with the properties of measures that are common in the information theory literature? We capture the abstract notion of “inform...

    Gail Gilboa-Freedman, Yair Amichai Hamburger in Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data S… (2020)

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    Article

    The effects of learned helplessness on the processing of a persuasive message

    The current study examines the effects of exposure to unsolvable problems on the processing of a persuasive message. Participants exposed to either unsolvable failure or no-feedback tasks were presented with o...

    Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Mario Mikulincer, Nir Zalts in Current Psychology (2003)

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    Chapter

    Understanding Social Loafing

    The effectiveness of work in groups has been investigated over several decades. One of the main areas of investigation has been to examine why groups almost inevitably fail to fulfil their potential. One of th...

    Yair Amichai-Hamburger in Misbehaviour and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Organizations (2003)

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    Chapter

    Antecedents of Employee Lateness

    Lateness behavior can be described as arriving at work after the scheduled time (Shafritz, 1980). Typically, lateness is addressed in the literature as a withdrawal behavior, a category that includes absence a...

    Abraham Sagie, Meni Koslowsky in Voluntary Employee Withdrawal and Inattend… (2002)