Research

Selected Publications

Plonsky, O., Teodorescu, K., & Erev, I. (2015). Reliance on Small Samples, the Wavy Recency Effect, and Similarity-based Learning. Psychological Review, 122(4), 621–647. doi: 10.1037/a0039413  Download pdf. Direct link.

Plonsky et al. 2015 Poster
Scientific poster for Plonsky et al., 2015

Plonsky, O., & Erev, I. (2017). Learning in Settings with Partial Feedback and the Wavy Recency Effect of Rare Events. Cognitive Psychology, 93, 18-43. doi:  10.1016/j.cogpsych.2017.01.002 Download pdf. Direct link.

The wavy recency effect; Plonsky & Erev, 2017

Erev, I., Ert, E., Plonsky, O., Cohen D., & Cohen O. (2017). From Anomalies to Forecasts: Toward a Descriptive Model of Decisions under Risk, under Ambiguity, and from Experience. Psychological Review, 124(4), 369-409. doi:  10.1037/rev0000062 Download pdf. Direct link. Competition’s website. Competition’s data.

Paradigm used in Erev et al.. 2017

Plonsky, O., Erev, I., Hazan, T., & Tennenholtz, M. (2017). Psychological Forest: Predicting Human Behavior. In The Proceedings of the Thirty-first AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), 656-662. Download pdf.  Direct link.

thumbnail of AAAI17 poster
Scientific poster for Plonsky et al., 2017

Plonsky, O., & Teodorescu, K. (2020). The Influence of Biased Exposure to Forgone Outcomes. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33, 393– 407. doi: 10.1002/bdm.2168 Download pdf. Direct link.

Main results in Plonsky & Teodorescu

Plonsky, O., & Teodorescu K. (2020). Perceived patterns in decisions from experience and their influence on choice variability and policy diversification: A response to Ashby, Konstantinidis, & Yechiam, 2017. Acta Psychologica, 202. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102953 Download pdf. Direct link.

Cohen D., Plonsky, O., & Erev, I. (2020). On the Impact of Experience on Probability Weighting in Decisions Under Risk. Decision, 7(2), 153–162. doi: 10.1037/dec0000118 Direct link.

Main result in Cohen et al.

Erev, I., Plonsky O., & Roth, Y. (2020). Complacency, panic, and the potential of gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 1095-1097. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-00939-z Direct link (full paper)

Roth, Y., Plonsky O., Shalev, E., & Erev, I. (2020). On the value of alert systems and gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3252. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577743 Direct link (full paper)



Plonsky O., Roth, Y., & Erev, I. (2021). Underweighting of rare events in social interactions and its implications to the design of voluntary health applications. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(2), 267-289. Direct link (full paper). 5 mins. presentation on this research (YouTube)

Plonsky, O., & Erev, I. (2021) To predict human choice, consider the context. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(10), 819-820. Direct link


Teodorescu K., Plonsky, O., Ayal, S., & Barkan, R. (in press). Frequency of enforcement is more important than the severity of punishment in reducing violation behaviors. PNAS. preprint

Main results from Roth et al
Main result from a field study from Plonsky et al.

 

 

Main result from Teodorescu et al.

Selected working papers

Plonsky, O., Apel, R., Ert, E., Tennenholtz, M., Bourgin, D., Peterson, J. C., Reichman, D., Griffiths, T. L., Russell, S., Carter, E. C., Cavanagh, J. F., & Erev I. (working paper). Predicting Human Decisions with Behavioral Theories and Machine Learning. Preprint. Competition’s website. Competition’s data.

Plonsky, O., Chen, D. L., Netzer L., Steiner, T., & Feldman, Y. (working paper). Best to be Last: Serial Position Effects in Legal Decisions in the Field and in the Lab. Preprint

Erev, I., Ert, E., Plonsky O., & Roth, Y. (working paper). Six Contradicting Deviations from Rational Choice, and the Impact of Experience. preprint. 15 mins. presentation (Ido Erev, YouTube)

Plonsky, O. & Erev, I. (working paper). Prediction oriented behavioral research and its relationship to classical decision research. preprint.

Plonsky, O. & Roth, Y. (work in progress). When both players choose dominated options: Underweighting of rare events in 2-person repeated games. 20 mins. conference presentation (YouTube)

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