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Comparing the value of perceived humanversus AI-generated empathy

16 July, 2025

new paper published in Nature Human Behaviour by Matan Rubin, Prof. Anat Perry, and colleagues, explores whether empathic responses are perceived differently when attributed to a human versus artificial intelligence.

Across nine studies with over 6,000 participants, the researchers found that identically generated empathic messages were rated as more empathic, supportive, and authentic when thought to come from a human.

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Congratulation to Dr. Oded Adomi Leshem

2 July, 2025

Who won ISPP’s 2025 David O. Sears Best Book Award for his book "Hope Amidst Conflict: Philosophical and Psychological Explorations," Published by Oxford University Press.

Leshem is a senior researcher at the PICR lab and the founder of the new International Hub for Hope Research.

David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award

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Welcome Dr. Amir Tal

24 June, 2025

The Department of Psychology is excited to welcome Dr. Amir Tal, a new faculty member joining the department in collaboration with the Department of Cognitive Science and the Brain. Amir will join us in the upcoming academic year (2025–2026) and will lead the Computational Psychology cluster.

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Application of the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method

26 July, 2021
Application of the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method

A new video program of prof. Orya Tishby and Prof. Hadas Wiseman (Haifa University) demonstrate the application of the core conflictual relationship theme method (CCRT). The CCRT method serves to identify the internal representations of clients' relationships with early caregivers and guides the therapy in the process of exploring the client’s subjective experiences in current relationships, including the relationship with the therapist.

A dynamic CCRT focus of therapy is formulated and used within supportive–expressive therapy to help the client gain awareness of recurring relationship dynamics, or the client’s core conflict. The CCRT model is both a clinical formulation firmly rooted in clinical experience and close observation, as well as a theory-driven method rooted in Freudian psychodynamic theory.

During the demonstration session, Drs. Orya Tishby and Hadas Wiseman examine and review the CCRT method from a structured interview—the relationship anecdotes paradigm, or RAP interview, and discuss various interventions demonstrated with a young woman who is coming into therapy to work on interpersonal relationship issues in her life.

This session features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of a composite of different case.

See full Session here