Active Graduate Students
Yaara Gur-Esh
MSc. Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch title: Metacognitive switch cost: Task switching effect on meta-memory and meta-reasoning
Expected graduation: 2024
email: yaara.gur@campus.technion.ac.il
Graduated (partial list)
Yarden Riskin
MSc. Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch title: Metacognitive regulation of mental effort among medical trainees
Graduated: 2022
email: yarden.riskin@gmail.com
Shahar Gat
MSc. Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch title: "It's about time": Metacognitive Processes Underlying Duration Judgments in Problem SolvingGraduated: 2022
email: shahar.gat@campus.technion.ac.il
Ori Nizri-Tal
MSc. Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch title: Search behaviors - The evolvement of stopping criteria and confidence judgments with accumulation of experience Graduated: 2021; Combined supervision with Dr. Kinneret Teodorescu
email: ori.nizri.tal@gmail.com
Ofri Shefer-Gilat
MSc Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors Engineering (started at Organizational Behavior and changed during studies)Research Title: The Association Between Sense of agency and Metacognitive Accuracy in Problem SolvingGraduated: 2020
email: ofri.shefer@gmail.com
Noam Gooz
MSc. Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch title: The metacognition of creativity
Graduated: 2022
email: noamgooz@campus.technion.ac.il Paper:
Kenett, Y. N., Gooz, N., & Ackerman, R. (2023). The role of semantic associations as a metacognitive cue in creative idea generation. Journal of Intelligence, 11(4), 59.
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Marwan Abbas
MSc. Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch title: Improving metacognitive judgment reliability in Problem Solving
Graduated: 2022
email: marwanab@campus.technion.ac.il
Ilan Torgovitsky
MSc Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors Engineering Research Title: Metacognitive Perspective on Strategic Allocation of Time across ItemsGraduated: 2018
email: ilantorgo@gmail.com Papers:
Ackerman, R., Yom-Tov, E., & Torgovitsky, I. (2020). Using confidence and consensuality to predict time invested in problem solving and in real-life web searching. Cognition, 199, 104248.
Sidi. Y., Torgovitsky, I., Soibelman, D.,Miron-Spektor, E., & Ackerman, R. (2020). You may be more original than you think: Predictable biases in self-assessment of originality. Acta Psychologica, 203, 103002.
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Papers:
Sidi, Y., & Ackerman, R. (2024). Opting out as an untapped resource in instructional design: Review and implications. Educational Psychology Review, 36, 41.
Hoch, E., Sidi, Y., Ackerman, R., Hoogerheide, V., & Scheiter, K. (2023). Comparing Mental Effort, Difficulty, and Confidence Appraisals in Problem-Solving: A Metacognitive Perspective. Educational Psychology Review, 35(2), 61.
Sidi, Y., Torgovitsky, I., Soibelman, D., Miron-Spektor, E., & Ackerman, R. (2020). You may be more original than you think: Predictable biases in self-assessment of originality. Acta Psychologica, 203, 103002.
Sidi, Y., Ackerman, R., & Erez, A. (2018). Feeling happy and (over)confident: The role of positive affect in metacognitive processes. Cognition & Emotion, 32(4), 876-884.
Sidi, Y., Shpigelman, M., Zalmanov, H., & Ackerman, R. (2017). Understanding metacognitive inferiority on screen by exposing cues for depth of processing. Learning and Instruction, 51, 61-73.
Sidi, Y., Ophir, Y., Ackerman, R. (2016). Generalizing Screen Inferiority – Does the Medium, Screen versus Paper, Affect Performance Even with Brief Tasks? Metacognition & Learning, 11(1), 15-33.
Thompson, V., Ackerman, R., Sidi, Y., Pennycook, G., Ball, L., & Prowse Turner, J. A. (2013). The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency in the monitoring and control of reasoning: Reply to Alter, Oppenheimer, & Epley (2013). Cognition, 128, 256-258.
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Dr. Tirza Lauterman
Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringMSc Research Title: The Hidden Cues behind the Screen - Media Effect on Improving Metacomprehension PhD Research Title: Initial Judgement of Solvability in Problem Solving: Non-verbal and Verbal Problems AccuracyGraduated MSc: 2013; PhD: 2020
email: tirza2502@gmail.com Papers:
Lauterman, T., & Ackerman, R. (2024). Initial Judgment of Solvability: Integrating heuristic cues with prior expectations regarding the task. Thinking & Reasoning, 30:1, 135-168.
Ackerman, R., Binah-Pollak, A., & Lauterman, T. (2023). Metacognitive Effort Regulation across Cultures. Journal of Intelligence, 11(9), 171.
Lauterman, T., & Ackerman, R. (2019). Initial Judgment of Solvability in non-verbal problems – A predictor of solving processes. Metacognition and Learning, 14(3), 365–383.
Lauterman, T., & Ackerman, R. (2014). Overcoming screen inferiority in learning and calibration. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 455-463.
Ackerman, R., & Lauterman, T. (2012). Taking reading comprehension exams on screen or on paper? A metacognitive analysis of learning texts under time pressure. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 1816-1828.
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Dr. Roee Shraga
PhD Track: Data Science Research Title: (Artificial) Mind over Matter: Integrating Humans and Algorithms in Solving Matching ProblemsGraduated: 2020; Combined supervision with Prof. Avigdor Gal
email: shraga89@gmail.com Paper:
Ackerman, R., Gal, A., Sagi, T., Shraga, R. (2019). A cognitive model of human bias in matching. In Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI, pp. 632-646). Springer, Cham (Computer science conference proceedings; authors are in alphabetical order).
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Baillie Shuster
MSc Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch Title: The Moderating Effects of Fixed and Growth Mindsets on Meta-Reasoning ProcessesGraduated: 2020; Combined supervision with Dr. Liat Levontin
email: baillie.shuster@gmail.com
Asa Kinory
MSc. Track: Cognitive Psychology and Human-Factors EngineeringResearch title: The Role of Metacognitive Processes in Effectively Using Adaptive User Interfaces Expected graduation: 2021; Combined supervision with Prof. Avi Parush
email: asakinory@gmail.com
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