People
DIRECTOR
NOGA COHEN, PH.D.
Google Scholar | Email: noga.cohen@edu.haifa.ac.il
Noga is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education and the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa. Noga's work includes the cognitive, physiological, and neural processes involved in emotion and emotion regulation. Her work employs an affective neuroscience approach that integrates behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques.
Noga received her bachelor's degree in psychology & biology from the Hebrew University and her Master's and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Ben-Gurion University (in the lab of Avishai Henik). She has also received postdoctoral training in neuroimaging at the Weizmann Institute of Science (in the labs of Yadin Dudai and Rony Paz) and in affective neuroscience at Columbia University (in the lab of Kevin Ochsner).
PhD Students
YAHEL BEN-BARUCH
I am interested in how perception is biased by emotion and cognitive control. Studying how both emotion and cognitive control can impact the estimation of size, number or time can help us understand how emotion can affect math learning disabilities.
REVITAL HAMERMAN
Email: revital@kramim.ort.org.il
I am very interested in executive control and strategies of emotion regulation such as rumination and reappraisal, especially among individuals with ADHD.
MOR KELEYNIKOV
I am interested in examining the effect of emotional regulation strategies and coping strategies during times of crisis on stress, anxiety, and depression levels, among parents to children with special needs.
ATHEER MASSARWE
I am interested in examining the interaction between individual differences and strategies in Extrinsic Emotional Regulation. Specifically, I am very interested in which strategy individuals high in depressive symptoms and individuals low in depressive symptoms will choose to help the other to regulate emotion in intense situation and less intense situations.
MARLYN KHOURY
I am interested in examining the association between cognitive reappraisal, self-efficacy, and academic performance among post-secondary students, particularly, among students with specific learning disabilities and ADHD.
ROLA WAKID
LAB MANAGER
I am interested in examining the role of selective attention in emotion regulation among children with symptoms of attention.
M.A. Students
EDEN FLEICHER
I am interested in examining the links between the emotional regulation strategies of kindergarten teachers and the emotional well-being of preschoolers (emotional regulation and problems of internalizing and externalizing).
DEMETRIA HILA NEUSTADTER
I have a bachelor's degree in education and theater studies. I am interested in examining how different emotion regulation strategies affect educators' well-being during challenging times.
B.A. Students
YOAV HARAMATI
Email: yoavharamati@gmail.com
As a research assistant in the Emotion lab, I focus on the captivating field of emotion regulation, with a particular focus on the domain of extrinsic emotion regulation.
HALA AKIL
I am a B.A student of Special Education and Counseling and Human Development. As a research assistant, I am interested in investigating emotion regulation, especially extrinsic emotion regulation (EER).
ALUMNI
SHIRLEY ALTEBA, POST DOCTORAL STUDENT
Email: shirleyalteba@hotmail.com
I am interested in the developmental processes underlaying emotional disorders and the developmental processes underlaying learning disabilities, and I wish to search for common processes and mutual influences between both areas
SHACHAR HOCHMAN, POST DOCTORAL STUDENT (in collaboration with Noam Weinbach)
I am most interested in the meeting point of cognitive control in its different forms (e.g., emotion regulation) and individual differences. I am always happy to learn new ways to study data and statistical models. If it's a Bayesian method, it's even better.
MIRI MARENKO, M.A. STUDENT
Aside from postgraduate studies, I am a kindergarten teacher. My research interests are how different emotion regulation strategies affect educators' desire to leave their profession.
LIOR HADAR NISSAN, M.A. STUDENT
I am a special education kindergarten teacher. My research interests are how different emotion regulation strategies affect parents' perception of the child's functioning.
SARA GERSHOVITS, M.A. STUDENT
I am interested in outbursts of anger in children, and whether reappraisal of mothers will reduce the intensity and frequency of outbursts of anger in their children.
NOF HAREL AZAR , M.A. STUDENT
I am interested in the association between executive functions, emotional control and learning disabilities, especially in the association between self-regulation and reading anxiety.
VIDA KHOURY, M.A. STUDENT
I am interested in the effect of executive control on reappraisal, especially whether executive control can improve the ability of reappraisal to reduce negative emotions
GILI BARZILAY , M.A. STUDENT
I am interested in understanding the effect of emotional regulation strategies, such as rumination and reappraisal, on the physiological reaction to food in women with eating disorders and women with high body dissatisfaction.
BARAAH ZUABI, B.A. STUDENT
I am a B.A student majoring in both psychology and cognitive science at Haifa University.