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David Leiser

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli professor of psychology at ben-gurion university of the negev”. Today it says “israeli cognitive psychologist”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Books; Selected articles”.
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David Leiser David Leiser ( Hebrew : דויד לייזר ; born April 1, 1952) is an Israeli professor of psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , specializing in Economic psychology and Social psychology . Leiser has served as President of the Economic Psychology division of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) since 2014. He was president of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) in 2011-2014.

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israeli professor of psychology at ben-gurion university of the negev

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israeli cognitive psychologist

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