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Congratulations to Dr. Noam Markovitch

24 May, 2023

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

 

From acute stress to persistent post-concussion symptoms: The role of parental accommodation and child’s coping strategies

19 April, 2023

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.

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The Apple Doesn’t “Feel” Far From the Tree: Mother–Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy

11 May, 2022
The Apple Doesn’t “Feel” Far From the Tree: Mother–Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy

Like adults, children experience less empathy toward some groups compared with others. In a series of studies, Dr. Shira Ran, Dr. Michal Reifen Tagar, Prof. Maya Tamir and Prof. Eran Halperin found that mothers differ from one another in how much empathy they want their children to feel towards specific outgroups, as a function of their political ideology.

The way rightist and leftist mothers differ is context-dependent since they did not differ from one another in how much empathy they wanted their children to feel in general. The extent of empathy mothers wanted their children to feel towards the outgroup was associated with how they chose to communicate messages to their children, and how their children actually felt towards the outgroup.

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