Ohad Livnat
I’m a PhD student at the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. I study individual differences in meta-cognitive appraisals of trust in phenomenology – that is, our spontaneous tendency to trust our conscious experiences or assume and act upon them as if they were objectively true. In addition, I take part in broad research of a completely new theory of curiosity, a framework that allows one to model in the same theory everything from clickbait-driven epistemic urges to long-lasting personal fields of interest.
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[...] Leshkowitz Ohad Livnat Innbal Menashri In this work, we propose an account of a fundamental paradox in modern human [...]
[...] Ohad Livnat We developed the Trust in Phenomenology Scale (TiPS) to assess one’s general tendency to trust their conscious experiences across 8 pre-determined factors, ranging from perceptual through emotional to intellectual humility. Our subjective experiences may not always reflect objective reality. We us our scale as well as perceptual tasks to identify and manipulate one’s tendency to rely on automatic, unconscious processes. [...]