Faculty Members

Name	Program	Contact Details	Fields of Interest
Dr. David Anaki	Experimental psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7782 anakid@mail.biu.ac.il	Processing faces and other objects Facial expressions processing and emotions perception Processes occurring during visual stimulus perception (Temporal integration) High visual processes defects in patients with brain injuries Memory processes in patients with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease Research methods: Psychophysical, Neuropsychological, and electrophysiology
Prof. Rachel Ben-Ari	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7166 benarir@mail.biu.ac.il	Intergroup relations Social Cognition The social psychology of Education: self-perception and motivation, cognitive development, interaction and cognition, perceptions and beliefs of teachers, conflicts, negotiation and mediation
Dr. Ety Berant	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7944 berante@mail.biu.ac.il	Normal and abnormal personality evaluation through projective tests Second and third generation of Holocaust survivors Physical diseases and their psychological consequences Long term coping of parents and their children with Congenital Heart Disease Evaluating therapeutic processes and assessing outcome of treatment intervention.
Dr. Aaron Bizman	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7967 bizman@mail.biu.ac.il	Prejudices and Stereotypes Intergroup relations The social self
Dr. Gil Diesendruck	Experimental psychology Child-Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8639 dieseng@mail.biu.ac.il	Language and cultural acquisition Conceptual development in preschoolers Relations between language and thought Social categorization Children's understanding of others' minds Understanding of communicative intentions
Prof. Miriam Faust	Experimental psychology	Tel:972-3-531-8547 972-3-531-8594 faustm@mail.biu.ac.il	Brain and language Brain processing of metaphorical language and analogies in normal and clinical populations. Brain and cognitive processes involved in acquiring foreign languages Word retrieval processes in patients with language and reading impairments Brain and cognitive processes involved in creativity
Prof. Ruth Feldman	Child-Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7943 feldman@mail.biu.ac.il	Parents-children and interfamily relations, development in normal and pathological populations. Regulation processes during childhood The neuro-biological base of attachment Maternal depression and children's depression Trauma and stress during childhood
Prof. Shaul Fox	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8742 foxsha@mail.biu.ac.il	Decision Making – Escalation of commitment, sunk-cost Change processes and resistance to change in organizations Performance and employee appraisal Computerized tests The psychology of money: cognitive biases
Dr. Ronny Geva	Child-Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8172 gevaro@mail.biu.ac.il	Developmental neuropsychology The development of self regulation Impulsivity and decision making processes Self regulation Executive functions Children at developmental risk Attention deficit disorders Learning disabilities
Dr. Eva Gilboa-Schechtman	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8744 gilboae@mail.biu.ac.il	Understanding and treatment of social anxiety Treatment outcome for psychological interventions in anxiety and depression Attentional control in social anxiety and depression Effects of trauma on peer and intimate relationship
Dr. Ofer Golan	Child-Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7941 golano1@mail.biu.ac.il	Autistic spectrum disorders (Autism, Asperger, PDD): development of cognitive and emotional characteristics, diagnosis and intervention. Autistic spectrum disorders Empath Emotions recognition Theory of mind
Dr. Avi Goldstein	Experimental psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7154 goldsa@mail.biu.ac.il	Cognitive electrophysiology: Use of EEG/MEG to study mental processes Hemispheric differences in motivation and cognition Attentional mechanisms for novel or emotional stimuli Personality differences in attention activation during emotional provoking situations
Dr. Ilanit Hasson	Clinical-Rehabilitation psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8477 hasoni@mail.biu.ac.il	Psychiatric rehabilitation – quality of life, coping with mental illnesses, insight into the illness, and assessing psycho-social interventions during the psychiatric rehabilitation. Psychooncology – psychological aspects in diagnosis, treatment, and coping of cancer patients and their family members. Psychology and sport- assessing interventions of sports and body moving – psychological aspects of sport activities.
Dr. Netta Horesh	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8715 horeshn@mail.biu.ac.il	The effect of life events on the development of psychopathology Object relations and identifications in different psychopathologies Suicidal tendencies Medical Psychology
Dr. Danny Kaplan	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel:972-3-531-7784 kaplnd@mail.biu.ac.il	Emotions in Organizations, Collective Intimacy, Friendship, Masculinity Media and Popular Music, Narrative and Ethnographic Methods
Dr. Ronit Kark	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8718 karkro@mail.biu.ac.il	Leadership and followership in organizations Emotions in organizations Identities and identifications in organizations Gender in organization Women's leadership Mentoring relationships
Prof. Meni Koslowsky	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8543 koslow@mail.biu.ac.il	Withdrawal (turnover, lateness, absences) Tests and measurements Social power MetaAnalysis and Lisrel applications
Prof. Michal Lavidor	Experimental psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8171 lavidom@mail.biu.ac.il	Orthographic language processing Spatial processing in the two hemispheres Transcranial magnetic resonance (TMS) Perceptual priming Perception of time and numbers
Prof. Rachel Levy-Shiff	Child-Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8385 levyra@mail.biu.ac.il	Family functions Romantic relationships – marriage Parental functions Parent-children relations Coping with stress Divorce Adoption High risk children
Dr. Ella Miron-Spektor	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8542 mironse@mail.biu.ac.i	Creativity and Innovation Team learning Emotions in Organizations
Dr. Tuvia Peri	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-7940 tperi@yahoo.com
Dr. Yuri Rassovsky	Clinical-Rehabilitation psychology	Tel: 972-3-8174 yurir@mail.biu.ac.il	Visual perceptual deficits in psychopathology Neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia and their implication for adaptive functioning Neurocognitive deficits following traumatic brain injury and their implications for adaptive functioning
Prof. Eshkol Rafaeli	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8582 eshkol@mail.biu.ac.il	Affective structure and affective chronometry (e.g., synchrony of positive and negative affect, parameters of circadian mood rhythms in psychiatric disorders) Application of social psychological and personality research to basic psychopathology questions and to the understanding of individuals' and couples’ clinical concerns Social cognition in psychopathology (particularly mood, anxiety, and personality disorders) and in personality; including self-complexity, evaluative integration, and mental models of affect Use of diary methods and multi-level modeling in studying psychotherapy, mood, coping, stress, and support
Prof. Shmuel Shulman	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8173 shulman@mail.biu.ac.il	Adolescents' romantic relationships; sexuality and depression Intergenerational transmission of relational patterns (and its relevance for romantic relationships) Young adults: Difficulties in the transition to adulthood as expressed in romantic relationships, work, and pathology (depression and anxiety)/ the role of family-close relationship in outcomes (All research is done using both quantitative and narrative methods)
Dr. Tamar Silberg	Clinical-Rehabilitation psychology	Tel: 972-3-7255 tamarsilberg@gmail.com
Dr. Einat Stein	Child-Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-7169 steine1@mail.biu.ac.il
Dr. Rami Tolmacz	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8719 tolmacr@mail.biu.ac.il
Dr. Rivka Tuval-Mashiach	Clinical psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8714 tuvalmr@mail.biu.ac.il	Gender Psychology- Femininity and masculinity, gender identity development Trauma – PTSD, coping processes, resilience, personal growth and meaningfulness proceeding trauma. Eating Disorders Narrative processes of coping with illness Identity and self conceptualization (in coping with illness and health) Methodological aspects of qualitative research Life stories Development through the life cycle and through transfer stages
Dr. Liad Uziel	Social-Organizational psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8581 liaduziel@gmail.com	Individual differences in social behavior Personality and emotion Social desirability Self-control Social facilitation
Prof. Eli Vakil	Clinical-Rehabilitation psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8269 vakile@mail.biu.ac.il	Memory processes and amnesia in patients with traumatic brain injury, elderly and children.
Dr. Noa Vilchinsky	Clinical-Rehabilitation psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8601 noav18@inter.net.il	Values in psychotherapy and rehabilitation The psychodynamics of intimate relationships in the face of crisis and trauma Attitudes regarding people with disabilities Psychocardiology: Coping with CVD
Prof. Aron Weller	Experimental psychology	Tel: 972-3-531-8548 weller@mail.biu.ac.il	Animal models of obesity, depression and anxiety: nature and nurture influences from a developmental perspective. Early development of regulation mechanisms of - eating and satiation, anxiety and calming, attention and impulsivity: testing the influence of physiological systems through animal models (rats). Hormonal and neurochemical mediation of risk factors and moderating environmental influences (for instance: enriching, nutrition and exercise) on development.