Prof. Sigal Tifferet

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Management & Economics
Prof. Sigal Tifferet
sigal.tifferet@gmail.com

building 20, room 319

Teaching

  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
  • Statistics for Managers
  • Stress and Coping
  • Academic Writing
  • An Evolutionary Perspective on Consumer Behavior
  • Academic Skills
  • Academic Literacy
  • Research Methods
  • Skills for the Future Workforce

Publications

​Tifferet, S. (1997). Obesity: a chronic psychophysiological state. Psychologia: Israel Journal of Psychology, 6, 83-90 [Hebrew].

Herstein, R. & Tifferet, S. (2007). An investigation of the new generic consumer​. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 24, 133-141. 

Tifferet, S., Manor, O., Constantini, S., Friedman, O., & Elizur, Y. (2007). Parental investment in children with chronic disease: The effect of child's and mother's age. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 844-859.

Tifferet, S., Elizur, Y., Constantini, S., Friedman, O., & Manor, O. (2010). Maternal Adaptation to pediatric neurosurgical diagnosis: A growth curve analysis.​ Psychology and Health, 25, 213-229. 

Tifferet, S., Jorev, S., & Nasanovitz, R. (2010). Lower parental investment in stepchildren: The case of the Israeli "Great Journey."​ Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 4(2), 62-67.

Tifferet, S., Manor, O., Constantini, S., Friedman, O., & Elizur, Y. (2011). Sex differences in parental reaction to pediatric illness. Journal of Child Health Care, 15(2), 118-125. 

Tifferet, S., Agrest, S., & Benisti-Shlomo, A. (2011). Problem gambling: An outcome of a life history strategy. International Gambling Studies, 11(2), 253-262. 

Tifferet, S., & Herstein, R. (2012). Gender differences in brand commitment, impulse buying, and hedonic consumption​. Journal of Product and Brand Management, 21(3), 176-182.

Tifferet, S., Gaziel, O., & Baram, Y. (2012). Guitar increases male Facebook attractiveness: Preliminary support for the sexual selection theory of music. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 3(1), 4-6. 

Tifferet, S., Shani, N., & Cohen, H. (2013). Gender differences in the status consumption of coffee. Human Ethology Bulletin, 3, 5-9. 

Tifferet, S., Kruger, D. J., Bar-Lev, O., Zeler, S. (2013). Dog ownership increases attractiveness and attenuates perceptions of short-term mating strategy in cad-like men​. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 11(3) 121-129,

Tifferet, S., & Vilnai-Yavetz, I. (2014). Gender differences in Facebook self-presentation: An international randomized study​. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 388-399, 

Tifferet, S., Pollet, T., Bar, A., & Efrati, H. (2016). Predicting sibling investment by perceived sibling resemblance. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 10(1), 64-70.

Tifferet, S., & Vilnai-Yavetz, I. (2017). Phytophilia and service atmospherics: The effect of indoor plants on consumers​. Environment & Behavior, 49(7), 814-844,

Tifferet, S., Rosenblit, N., & Shalev, M. (2017). Promoting sustainability in a college café by opposite-sex cashiers​. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 18(7), 1279-1290, 

Tifferet, S., Saad, G., Meiri, M., & Ido, N. (2018). Gift giving at Israeli weddings as a function of genetic relatedness and kinship certainty. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 28(1), 157-165.

Tifferet, S., & Vilnai-Yavetz, I. (2018). Self-presentation in LinkedIn portraits: Common features, gender, and occupational differences. Computers in Human Behavior, 80, 33-48.

Tifferet, S. (2019). Gender differences in privacy tendencies on social network sites: A meta-analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 1-12. 

Tifferet, S. (2020). Gender differences in social support on Social Network Sites: A meta-analysis. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 23(4), 199-209. 

Tifferet, S. (2020). The effect of grade framing on task engagement, task completion, and anticipated regret​. Instructional Science, 48(4), 475-494. 

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