Nations mired in prolonged conflict develop and disseminate societal beliefs to address society's needs. These beliefs are also used to garner support in the international arena.
For receiving the best doctoral award in developmental psychology from the APA organization!
Noam's doctorate deals with the understanding of children's differential sensitivity to the effects of the environment on their development. The work's contribution to developmental psychology is very significant, both in theoretical thought and methodological approaches.
Well done Noam!
Noam PhD supervisor, Prof. Ariel Knafo-Noam, has also won the award in the past
An article by PhD candidate Irit Aviv, supervised by Dr. Tammy Pilowsky Peleg and Prof. Hillel Aviezer was selected as the winner of the Eighth Annual TCN/AACN student Project Competition, from among 15 eligible manuscripts
Acute stress following mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is highly prevalent and associated with Persistent Post-Concussion symptoms (PPCS). However, the mechanism mediating this relationship is understudied.
For winning the prestigious Krill Award given on behalf of the Wolf Foundation.
The Krill Prize is awarded to outstanding academic faculty members and promising researchers from research universities in Israel who have demonstrated significant research breakthroughs and who are expected to lead research and academia in Israel in the future in the fields of exact sciences, life sciences and medicine, engineering and agriculture.
Thirty years of neuroimaging reveal the set of brain regions consistently associated with pleasant and unpleasant affect in humans—or the neural reference space for valence. Yet some of humans’ most potent affective states occur in the context of other humans.
Yuval won the grant for his research on the brain mechanism of creative search.
The European Research Council is a prestigious grant designed to enable researchers to fulfill their research goals as well as promote fruitful collaborations and assist in the first stages of technology commercialization.
Congratulations to Dr. Rasha Kardosh for winning the best article award from the International Social Cognition Network.
Rasha eceived the award for the article Minority Salience and the overestimation of individuals from minority groups in perception and memory
Empathy is important for resolving intergroup conflicts. However, people tend to feel less empathy toward people who do not belong to our social group outgroup members). To overcome this tendency, Dr Yossi Hasson, Prof. Maya Tamir, Prof. Eran Halperin and others developed a new intervention synthesizing psychology and art to increase the belief that empathy is unlimited.
