Media Coverage

Video Blogs

• Game theory and doping in sport 12.12.2021

• Systematic mistakes of referees in football, basketball, and… ski jumping 08.11.2021

• Cognitive biases in sports 22.06.2021

• Life, Death and Sports 07.05.2021

• On corruption, UN, and soccer. 01.04.2021

• From judo to financial crisis via gender and psychology. 06.03.2021

• Sports for economics like apples for physics. 15.02.2021

Columns on Psychology Today

• What Sports Can Teach Us About Discrimination. 29.01.2024

• Is Soccer a Matter of Life and Death? 14.11.2022

• When Under Pressure, "Play Like a Girl". 07.03.2022

• Who Cries Most at the Olympics? 08.02.2022

• Why Do Top Athletes Choke Under Pressure? 12.02.2022

Columns on Walla.co.il (in Hebrew)

• On the pitfalls of the tournament design with 24 teams in the Euro 2024. 13.06.2024

• On discrimination in sports. 09.01.2024

• On women's football. 20.07.2023

• On the length of contracts and performance. 20.06.2023

• On the victory of Manchester City in the Champions League. 12.06.2023

• On transfer market values and final rankings. 22.05.2023

• On previous experience of coaches. 18.05.2023

• On negative effect of convincing wins in the round of last 16 in the FIFA World Cup. 09.12.2022

• On importance of winning in the first game in the FIFA World Cup. 24.11.2022

• On order of games in the group stage of soccer tournaments. 15.08.2022

• On incentives to lose. 22.06.2021

• What happens when a referee shares the same language with one of the teams. 17.06.2021

• Why the game between Denmark and Finland should have been postponed. 13.06.2021

• Predictions towards Euro 2020. 09.06.2021

• On the relationships between politics and sports. 04.06.2021

• On detrimental effect of too high motivation before important games. 11.10.2020

• On repeated game between Scotland and Israel. From Walla portal (in Hebrew). 08.10.2020

• On racism in sports. 14.06.2020

• CoronaVirus against home advantage. 11.03.2020

• Medicine against discouragement effect in Davis Cup. 05.03.2020

• Psychology of Judo: Hidden Secrets below the tatami. 18.01.2020

Columns on Sports.ru (in Russian)

• On home disadvantage in professional biathlon. 18.11.2021

• On incentives to lose. 22.06.2021

• What happens when a referee shares the same language with one of the teams. 16.06.2021

• Why the game between Denmark and Finland should have been postponed. 14.06.2021

• Predictions towards Euro 2020. 11.06.2021

• On Super League vs UEFA. 20.04.2021

• Interview with sports.ru. 17.07.2020

Selected printed and on-line press

• On luck and penalty kicks. From Channel 5 (in Hebrew). 29.06.2024.

• White pants have a negative impact on performance. From Der Spiegel (in German). 26.04.2024

• Soccer-Period anxiety and white shorts linked to drop in performance - study. From Reuters. 25.04.2024

• Support science - don't boycott Israel! From Forskerforum (in Norwegian). 04.04.2024

• Academic boycott of Israel is poorly thought out. From Subjekt (in Norwegian). 13.02.2024

• On negative effect of playing in white shorts in women's football. From NRK (in Norwegian). 03.11.2023

• On unfair allocation of games on 16 of May in Norwegian Eliteserien. From RBNett (in Norwegian). 15.05.2023

• Is Crying Good For You? From Discover Magazine. 09.08.2022

• The poor subsidize the rich on football's national day. From DN (in Norwegian). 13.05.2022

• Who will judge the judges? From The Economist, © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London, 12th February 2022. All rights reserved.

• A psychological effect in football can make the difference between winning and losing. From Business Insider (in German). 10.12.2021

• More games more audience? From nettavisen.no (in Norwegian). 15.11.2021

• Would more games between attractive teams increase attendance? From Science Norway. 14.11.2021

• The number of spectators in the Euroleague falls. From Mundodeportivo (in Spanish). 12.11.2021

• Empty seats in EuroLeague. From Israel Today (in Hebrew). 11.11.2021

• Saturday games attract a significantly higher attendance at football matches. From Science Norway. 01.06.2021

• On home disadvantage in biathlon. From Der Spiegel (in German). 06.02.2021

• On nationalistic bias in ski jumping. From Iltalehti.fi (in Finnish). 06.02.2021

• Ski jumping judges favor compatriots. From SVT (in Swedish). 03.02.2021

• Russian judges favor their compatriots. From Championat.ru (in Russian). 29.01.2021

• Nationalism in jumping? "The Russians and Poles are the worst". From TVP Info (in Polish). 29.01.2021

• Ski jumping judges are biased. From Nettavisen.no (in Norwegian). 27.01.2021

• Ski jumping judges favour contestants from their own nations. From Science Norway. 26.01.2021

• Less is more: the lesson that Champions League reformers refuse to learn. From The Telegraph. 20.10.2020

• Sports in the Service of Economics. From BehavioralEconomics Hub. 08.09.2020

• Sports research reveals hidden nationalism. From Forskning (in Norwegian). 07.07.2020

• Primitive human instinct. From Der Spiegel (in German). 25.04.2020

• Best biathletes underperform at home. From Forskning (in Norwegian). 19.11.2018

• Why we choke under pressure (and how not to). From Freaconomics Radio. 18.07.2018

• Move to 48 teams has the power to transform game in emerging nations. From "i Newspaper". 18.07.2018

• Think that soccer match was fixed? You may be right. From Quartz. 10.07.2018

• On psychological momentum and gender. From Business Insider. 07.07.2018

• Trading lessons in psychology from England’s football team. From City A.M. 03.07.2018

• World Cup strategy and the psychology of success. From Psychology Today. 28.06.2018

• Too hesitant and anxious at the shooting range. From Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 13.01.2018

• The noise, the lust - and the big burden. From Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 04.01.2018

• Women cope with pressure better than men. From Independent. 04.12.2017

• On choking under pressure and gender. From De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 18.11.2017

• Elite female tennis players less prone to choking under pressure than elite male players. From Research Digest of the British Psychological Society. 31.07.2017

• Professional tennis players and choking: Men choke more than women under high pressure.From Reddit. 01.05.2017

• On psychological momentum and gender. From Daily Mail. 01.03.2017

• On psychological momentum and gender. From Jerusalem Post. 01.03.2017

• On unfairness of schedule in the World Cups and European Championships. From "i Newspaper". 05.01.2017 

• On psychological momentum and gender. From MSN. 19.12.2016

• On choking under pressure and gender. From The Times . 14.11.2016

• On choking under pressure and gender. From Herald Magazine. 12.11.2016

• On Unfairness of World Cups and European Championships. From BBC. 10.10.2016

• On psychological momentum and gender. From BBC. 24.08.2016

• On gender differences in competitiveness (tightness) in professional tennis. From Daily Mail. 29.04.2016

• Corruption and contests: Evidence from sensitive soccer matches around the world. From Haaretz newspaper (in Hebrew). 05.02.2015 

• On time preferences of professional athletes. From Globes (in Hebrew). 14.12.2010

• On gender differences in competitiveness (tightness) in professional tennis. From Calcalist (in Hebrew). 24.03.2016

 TV and on-line

• 96 seconds on choking under pressure in biathlon

• 90 seconds on the effect of kick-off time in the UEFA Europa League

• Can intermediate prizes terminate the discouragement effect in Davis Cup? 26.01.2018

• FIFA to expand World Cup to 48 teams for 2026 tournament. From the ABC News. 10.01.2017

• Built in unfairness in FIFA and UEFA tournaments (an opinion piece). 17.10.2016

• How sports can help economics (from Ben Gurion University conference on sports business. In Hebrew). 07.04.2016

• On gender differences in performance under pressure. Evidence from professional tennis and judo competitions. From Open Field show, Sport Channel 5, Israel (in Hebrew). 18.11.2014

• On gender differences in performance under pressure. From Orly and Guy morning show, Channel 10, Israel (in Hebrew). 01.12.2014

• Gender differences in chocking under pressure. From Youtube (in English).