I study decision making in social and individual contexts. My research applies an integrative perspective, combining psychology and economics. I use paradigms from experimental economics to understand the psychological processes that underlie decision making.
I study questions/topics, such as:
1. The role of self-control in achieving reciprocity (negative and positive), cooperation, trust, honesty, etc.
2. How do emotion and emotion regulation affect cooperation, trust and reciprocity in strategic contexts?
3. How is coordination in groups achieved and which factors hinder coordination?
4. How do fairness preferences change with age?
5. How can cooperation in social dilemmas and in negotiation be learned and which factors affect this learning?

I also study more applied questions such as:

1. Decision making in configuration tasks (e.g., how to assign workers to shifts).
2. Examinees' risk taking behavior in multiple choice questions
3. The effect of risk perception on the reluctance to be vaccinated

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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


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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

B.A. 1983 - 1984, 1986 - 1988 – Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Dept. of Behavioral Sciences.
M.A. 1988 - 1992 - Ben Gurion University of the Negev -- Dept. of Behavioral Sciences.
D.Sc. 1994-1997 – Technion Israel Institute of Technology - Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Post-doc 1999 – 2001 - Harvard Business School, Division of Negotiation, Organization and Markets