Research interests

Self regulation • Motivation • Social power • Attribution • Social cognition

Publications

• Ecker, Y., Weitzel, A. I., & Lammers, J. (In-Press). Bias Towards Progress-Oriented Leaders: People Prefer Progress- over Maintenance-Oriented Leaders Even When a Maintenance Orientation is Required. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yad3w
• Ecker, Y. (2024). The unseen pillar of behavior: A review of maintenance goals. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(9), e70003.
• Ecker, Y., Schreiber, S., Busch, A., Imhoff, R. (2024). From Social Traditions to Personalized Routines: Maintenance Goals as a Resilience Factor. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3074
• Ecker, Y., Lange, J., & Imhoff, R. (2024). The General Maintenance Orientation Scale: Interindividual Differences in Nurturing What We Have. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. In-Press. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sz38r
• Ecker, Y., Gilead, M. & Imhoff, R. (2023). An Examination of the Motivations to Maintain, Approach, and Avoid by Proximity to the Ideal State. Social Cognition, 41(1), 88–102. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.1.88
• Ecker, Y., Gilead, M. & Imhoff, R. (2022). The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state. Motivation and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09994-7
• Zalmanson, L., Oestreicher-Singer, G. & Ecker, Y. (2022). The Role of Social Cues and Trust in Users’ Private Information Disclosure. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 46(2), 1109–1134. https://doi.org/10.25300/misq/2022/16288
• Ecker, Y., Imhoff, R., & Lammers, J. (2021). Self-control failure increases a strategic preference for submission as means to avoid future failure. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, Article 104155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104155
• Ecker, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2019). Sensory preconditioning of evaluation requires accurate memory of the co-occurrence between the neutral stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, Article 103886 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103886
• Ecker, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2019). Conceptual overlap between stimuli increases misattribution of internal experience. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 83, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.03.006
• Ecker, Yael & Bar-Anan, Yoav. (2019). The Misattributing Personality: The Relationship Between Priming in the Affect Misattribution Procedure, Need for Closure, and Body Awareness. Social Cognition, 37(5). 499-515. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2019.37.5.499
• Ecker, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2019). Applicability increases the effect of misattribution on judgment. Cognition and Emotion, 33(4), 709-721 https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1498322
• Ecker, Y., & Gilead, M. (2018). Goal-directed allostasis: The unique challenge of keeping things as they are and strategies to overcome it. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 618–633. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618769847
• Gilead, M., David, Y. B., & Ecker, Y. (2017). Not our fault: Judgments of apathy versus harm toward socially proximal versus distant others. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(5), 568–575. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617714583