I am a Postdoctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University and The Open University of Israel. I work with Niv Reggev at the SCMB lab. & with Tal Moran. I received my B.A. in Psychology, Sociology, and Criminology from Bar-Ilan University, my M.A. in Social Psychology from the Open University of Israel, and my PhD in Psychology from Ben-Gurion University.

My research

I study social cognition, mainly intergroup bias and intergroup relations, attitude formation, and attitudinal ambivalence.

The effect of group membership and individuating information on automatic and deliberate judgment of individual group members. The center of my work focuses on the relative effect of individuating information (e.g., person-specific actions and traits) and group based information (e.g., stereotypes, prejudice) on the automatic and deliberate evaluation of individual members of social groups.

Cross-cultural differences in automatic and deliberate attitudes and stereotypes. In this project I examine the extent to which countries around the world share their levels of bias in automatic and deliberate attitudes and stereotypes, the antecedents and consequences of cross-cultural differences and similarities, and variation of bias across time.

Free-recall of group-members’ faces. In this project, I examine whether stereotypes or certain schemas regarding social groups affect the way faces of group members are retrieved from memory. More specifically, I explore whether the recollection of learned faces is biased in the direction of certain stereotypes.

Bivalent memory and its moderators. In this project I examine memory processes that link the same object to two opposite values. In particular, I investigate the factors that moderate information integration, and keep the two opposite values seperate in memory.