פרופ' נורית טל-אור

Articles in Refereed Journals

 Tal-Or, N., Boninger, D. S., & Gleicher, F. (2004). On becoming what we might have been: Counterfactual thinking and self-efficacy. Self and Identity, 3, 5-26

 Tal-Or, N., Boninger, D. S., #Poran, A., & Gleicher, F. (2004). Counterfactual thinking as a mechanism in narrative persuasion. Human Communication Research, 30, 301-328

  Tal-Or, N, #Philosoph, M.,#Shapira, N., & #Malca, G. (2005). Impressions formed in response to public self-evaluation maintenance strategies. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 388-395

 Tal-Or, N. (2005). “Tell me what your bumper sticker is and I will tell you who you are: Stereotypes of left wing and right wing people in Israel. Megamot, 44, 56-82

  Tal-Or, N. (2007). Age and third person perception in response to positive product advertisements. Mass Communication and Society, 10, 403-422

  Tal-Or, N., & Papirman, Y. (2007). The fundamental attribution error in attributing fictional figures' characteristics to the actors. Media Psychology, 9, 331-345

  Tal-Or, N. & Tsfati, Y. (2007). On the substitutability of the third person perception. Media Psychology, 10, 231-249

 Tal-Or, N. (2008). Boasting, burnishing and burying in the eyes of the perceivers. Social Influence, 3, 202-222

 Tal-Or, N. (2008). Communicative behaviors of outperformers and their perception by the outperformed people. Human Communication Research, 34, 234-262

  Tal-Or, N. (2009). Bragging in the right context: Impressions formed of self-promoters who create a context for their boasts. Social Influence, 4, 1-17

  Tal-Or, N., Nemets, E., & Ziv, S. (2009). The transmitter - persistence effect: What causes transmitters' enduring attitudes? Social Influence, 4, 274-281

  Tal-Or, N., Shilo, S., & Meister, T. (2009). Third person perception and purchase behavior in response to various selling methods. Psychology and Marketing, 26, 1091-1107

 Tal-Or, N. (2010). Direct and indirect self-promotion in the eyes of the perceivers. Social Influence, 5, 87-100

 Tal-Or, N. (2010). Indirect ingratiation: Pleasing people by associating them with successful others and by praising their associates. Human Communication Research, 36, 163-189

 Tal-Or, N., & Cohen, J. (2010). Understanding audience involvement: Conceptualizing and manipulating identification and transportation. Poetics, 38, 402-418

 Tal-Or, N., Cohen, J., Tsfati, Y., & Gunther, A. C. (2010). Testing causal direction in the influence of presumed media influence. Communication Research, 37, 801-824

 Tal-Or, N., & Drukman, D. (2010). Third-person perception as an impression management tactic. Media Psychology 13, 301-322

 Tal‐Or, N., & Hershman‐Shitrit, M. (2015). Self‐Disclosure and the Liking of Participants in Reality TV. Human Communication Research, 41(2), 245-267

 Cohen, J., Tal‐Or, N., & Mazor‐Tregerman, M. (2015). The tempering effect of transportation: exploring the effects of transportation and identification during exposure to controversial two‐sided narratives. Journal of Communication, 65(2), 237-258

 Tal-Or, N. (2016). How Co-Viewing Affects Attitudes: The Mediating Roles of Transportation and Identification. Media Psychology, 19, 381-405

 Tal‐Or, N., & Tsfati, Y. (2016). When Arabs and Jews Watch TV Together: The Joint Effect of the Content and Context of Communication on Reducing Prejudice. Journal of Communication, 66(4), 646-668

 Tal-Or, N., & Cohen, J. (2016). Unpacking Engagement: Convergence and Divergence in Transportation and Identification. Annals of the International Communication Association, 40(1), 33-66

 Pelled, A., Zilberstein, T., Tsirulnikov, A., Pick, E., Patkin, Y., & Tal-Or, N. (2017). Textual Primacy Online: Impression Formation Based on Textual and Visual Cues in Facebook Profiles. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(7), 672-687

 Tal-Or, N., & Gal-Oz, A. (2017). Evaluating the evaluator: The effects of the valence, sequence and target of evaluations on the perception of the evaluator. International Journal of Psychology. 1-8

 Tal-Or, N, & Waismel Manor, I. (2018). The right faces for right-wing and left-wing politicians. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 30(2), 194-210

 Tal Or, N., & Tsfati, Y. (2018). Does the co-viewing of sexual material affect rape myth acceptance? The role of the co-viewer's reactions and gender. Communication Research 45(4), 577-602

 Tal-Or, N., Paparp Bivas., L., & Sagron, Y. (2019). Do I look all right (or all left)? - The interactive effect of facial appearance and political attitudes on social attraction. International Journal of Communication, 13, 3361-3378

 Lewis, N., Pelled, A., & Tal-Or, N.. (2019) The effect of exposure to thin models and digital modification disclaimers on women’s body satisfaction. International Journal of Psychology

 Tal-Or, N. (2019) The effects of co-viewers on the viewing experience. Communication Theory

 Tal-Or, N. (2019). The Relationship between viewing environment, narrative environment, and involvement with narratives: The case of temperature. Human Communication Research, 45, 395-426

 Tal-Or, N. (2020). The effect of ethnicity and number of co-viewers on affective and cognitive identification with media characters. Journalism and Mass communication Quarterly, 97(3), 663-682

 Tal‐Or, N., & Razpurker‐Apfeld, I. (2021). When the physical coldness in the viewer's environment leads to identification with a suffering protagonist. International Journal of Psychology, 56(3), 394-406

 Tal-Or, N., Sela, S., Igumnov, I., Milwidsky, H. D., Rafaeli, B., & Sanilevich, M. (2021). Does what we know about actors’ real lives influence our reactions to the characters they play? Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 33(3), 155–164

 Tal-Or, N., & Razpurker-Apfeld, I. (2021). Embodied Cognition and Media Engagement: When the Loneliness of the Protagonist Makes the Reader Sense Coldness (and Vice Versa). Human Communication Research, 47(4), 444-476

 Or, S., Meir, N., Ron, D., Livio, O., Tsfati, Y., & Tal-Or, N. (2023). The Impact of Testimony Journalism on Audience Engagement: An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Point of View. Journalism Studies, 24, 573-593

 Razpurker-Apfeld, I., & Tal-Or, N. (2024). Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters. Media Psychology, 27, 558-581

 Razpurker-Apfeld, I., & Tal-Or, N. (2024). Sensing the Media Character: The Experience of Parasocial Interaction, but Not Identification, as a Real Physical Occurrence. Psychology of Popular Media, 13, 428-438

 Meir, N., & Tal-Or, N. (2024). The Effect of Types of Language Mistakes on the Persuasiveness of User Generated Content on Facebook. Psychology of Popular Media, 1-9

 Razpurker-Apfeld, I., & Tal-Or, N. (2024) Masked Distress: The Effects of Face Masks on Physical and Emotional Suffocation. International Journal of Psychology, 1-10

 Yamada, Y., Xue, J., Li, P., Ruiz-Fernández, S., Özdoğru, A. A., Sarı, S., Cervera-Torres, S., Hinojosa, J. A., Montoro, P.R., AlShebli, B., Bolatov, A. K., McGeechan, G. J., Zloteanu, M., Razpurker-Apfeld, I., Samekin, A., Tal-Or, N., Tejada, J., Freitag, R., Khatin-Zadeh, O., Banaruee, H., Robin, N., Sanchez, G. B., Barrera-Causil, C. J., & Marmolejo-Ramos, F. (2024). Where the ‘bad’ and the ‘good’ go: A multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1). Accepted for publication in Memory & Cognition

 Razpurker-Apfeld, I. & Tal-Or, N. (2025). Sweet love, bitter breakup: Exploring the impact of food intake on identification with media characters. Media Psychology, 1–26

 Tal-Or, N., & Razpurker-Apfeld, I. The Impact of Media Narratives on the Audience’s Self: Immediate and Delayed Effects. Journalism and Media. 2025; 6(3):107

Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)

 Tal-Or, N., Boninger, D. S., & Gleicher, F (2002) Understanding the conditions and processes necessary for intergroup contact to reduce prejudice. In G. Solomon & B. Nevo (Eds.), Peace Education (pp. 89-107). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

 Tal-Or, N., Tsfati, Y., & Gunther, A. C. (2009). The influence of presumed media influence: Origins and implications of the third person perception. In: R. L. Nabi, & M. B. Oliver (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Media Processes and Effects (pp. 99-112). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

 Cohen, J., & Tal-Or, N. (2017). Antecedents of Identification: Character, Text, and Audiences. In: In Hakemulder, F., Kuijpers, M.M., Tan, E.S., Bálint, K., Doicaru, M.M (Eds.), Narrative Absorption (pp. 133-153) . Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins

Articles in Conference Proceedings

 Pelled, A., Zilberstein, T., Pick, E., Patkin, Y., Tsironlikov, A., & Tal-Or, N. (2016, July). Which Post Will Impress the Most?: Impression Formation Based on Visual and Textual Cues in Facebook Profiles. In Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (p. 25). ACM. (a different version of this study was published in American Behavioral Scientist)

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Entries in Encyclopedia

 Tal-Or, N. (2016) “Impression Management.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. Ed. Patricia Moy. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756841-0120

 Tal-Or, N. (2017). Parasocial Relationship, and Break-Up. In P. Roessler (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Media Effects (pp. 1445-1457). New York: Wiley

 Tal-Or, N. & Tsfati, Y. (2020). The influence of presumed media influence. In J. Van den Bulck (Ed.). International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. New York: Wiley