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).

MARLYN KHOURY

Email: mkhouri89@gmail.com 

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 

Email: rolawakid@gmail.com 

I am interested in examining the role of selective attention in emotion regulation among children with symptoms of attention.   

FIDA BADER

Email: psy.fidabader@gmail.com

I'm an educational psychologist, interested in the impact of war exposure on adolescents' psychological distress, and the role of emotion regulation strategies as resilience factors

DEMETRIA HILA NEUSTADTER  

Email: demetria.neu@gmail.com

I am interested in examining the role of emotion regulation in enhancing educators' well-being during challenging times  

YAEL ATLAS

Email: atlas.yael412@gmail.com

I am a special education and English literature major. I am interested in studying emotion regulation and its relation to attention and cognitive functions. 

DR. YAHEL BEN-BARUCH

Email: yahelyben@gmail.com 

Currently a postdoc at the Open University.

My PhD examined how perception is biased by emotion and cognitive control. Studying how both emotion and cognitive control can impact the estimation of size, can help us understand how emotion can affect perceptual biases. 

DR. ATHEER MASSARWE

Email: m.atheer1996@gmail.com 

Currently a postdoc at the Hebrew University.

My PhD examined the interaction between individual differences and strategies in Extrinsic Emotion Regulation. Specifically, I studied which strategies individuals high in depressive symptoms and individuals low in depressive symptoms choose to help the others to regulate emotion in intense situations and less intense situations.  

DR. MOR KELEYNIKOV

Email: moravraham38@gmail.com

Currently a postdoc at the Hebrew University.

My PhD examined emotion regulation as both a predictor and moderator of psychological distress and parental burnout under conditions of high stress and adversity.

REVITAL HAMERMAN

Email: revital@kramim.ort.org.il 

My PhD examined the links between executive control and strategies of emotion regulation such as reappraisal, among young adults and among individuals with ADHD.  

JASMINE SAGI, LAB MANAGER

DR. SHIRLEY ALTEBA, POST DOCTORAL STUDENT

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   

DR. 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. 

Shachar's personal website

EDEN FLEICHER

Email: fleischer13@gmail.com 

My MA thesis examined the links between the emotion regulation strategies of kindergarten teachers and the emotional well-being of preschoolers (emotional regulation and problems of internalizing and externalizing).

MIRI MARENKO, M.A. STUDENT

Aside from postgraduate studies, I am a kindergarten teacher. My  MA thesis research explored 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 MA thesis examined how different emotion regulation strategies affect parents' perception of the child's functioning.

SARA GERSHOVITS, M.A. STUDENT

My MA thesis examined outbursts of anger in children, and whether reappraisal of mothers reduces the intensity and frequency of outbursts of anger in their children.  

NOF HAREL AZAR , M.A. STUDENT

My thesis examined 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

My thesis examined 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

My thesis examined the effect of emotion 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.

YOAV HARAMATI, M.A. STUDENT

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).