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Yanay Gorelik

Yanay Gorelik

Yanay.Gorelik@mail.huji.ac.il
Current Studies

M.A. student in Experimental Psychology, advisor: Dr. Ruth Mayo.

Previous Degrees

B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Research Interests

Yanay’s research focuses on the differences between facts and opinions in regards to truth judgments. In other words, how we decide whether a statement is true or not. More specifically, Yanay aims to analyze in what ways the post-truth era changes the way we judge the objectivity of facts and opinions.

Nitzan Friedman

Nitzan Friedman

Currently:

Nitzan is a psychometrician working as a test developer at NITE (National Institute for Testing and Evaluation).

Research with Dr. Mayo:

Nitzan’s research, supervised by Dr. Mayo and by Dr. Ben Simon from NITE, focused on the effect that testing has on examinees’ knowledge consolidation. Specifically, they were interested in whether multiple choice test items, which inherently include false information that examinees read and process, induce examinees to forget information that they have learned for the test.

Tom Noah

Tom Noah

tom.noah@mail.huji.ac.il
Currently: 

Tom is a Fulbright and Rothschild post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California Mind and Society center.

 
Previous Degrees:

PhD candidate, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

M.A. in Cognitive Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

LL.B. in Law and Cognitive Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

Research with Dr. Mayo:

Tom Noah completed her PhD at the Hebrew University under the supervision of Dr. Ruth Mayo and Prof. Yaacov Schul in 2018, specializing in the study of rationality. 

Her PhD research investigated how the feeling of being observed by others affects reliance on metacognitive experiences and facial feedback when making judgments.

 
Selected publications: 

Noah, T., Schul, Y., & Mayo, R. (2018). Thinking of oneself as an object of observation reduces reliance on metacognitive information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(7), 1023-1042.

Noah, T., Schul, Y., & Mayo, R. (2018). When both the original study and its failed replication are correct: Feeling observed eliminates the facial-feedback effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(5), 657-664.

 

Roy Schulman

Roy Schulman

roschulman@gmail.com
Currently:

 

Roy is working on his PhD, concerning the perceived objectivity of moral statements, under the supervision of Tal Eyal from Ben Gurion University, and Nira Liberman from Tel Aviv.

 

Previous degrees:

M.A. in Cognitive Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

B.A. in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

Research with Dr. Mayo:

 Roy’s research with Ruti concerned the memory of sentences with moral content, as opposed to non-moral sentences. They found that sentences with negative moral content were not only better remembered, compared with non-moral sentences, but were also shown to display unique memory effects.

Bat-El Terehovsky

Bat-El Terehovsky

bat-el.terehovsky@mail.huji.ac.il
Currently:

Today, Bat-El studies Clinical Psychology in IDC, and researches the moderating role Parental Mentalization on the relationship between Infant Negative Emotionality (Temperamental component) and Maternal Sensitivity, under the supervision of Dr. Tahli Frenkel, IDC.

 

Previous degrees:

M.A. student in Experimental Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

B.A. in Psychology and Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

Research with Dr. Mayo:

Bat-El is mainly interested in the implications of distrust mindset on the willingness to be exposed to information that contradicts our attitudes. Mayo, Alfasi and Schwarz (2014) found that people engaged in a distrust mindset, test their hypotheses in a way that refutes their own beliefs. Based on these findings, we hypothesized that under a mindset of distrust, people would be more willing to be exposed to information that contradicts their attitudes. Our hypothesis was confirmed in one experiment and now, in collaboration with Dr. Tom Noah, we would like to continue to test this field.

Rebecca Weil

Rebecca Weil

R.Weil@hull.ac.u
Currently:

 Rebecca is a lecturer at the University of Hull, UK. Her current research is concerned with two main goals: (a) to gain a better understanding of the processes through which false information can influence existing knowledge; and (b) based on this understanding, to find ways to reduce the influence of false information.

 

Previous degrees:

 

PhD candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany.

M.A. in Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

B.A. in Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

 

 

Research with Dr. Mayo:

Rebecca spent her time as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows. During her time at the Hebrew University she worked closely with Dr. Ruth Mayo and Prof. Yaacov Schul. They developed a theoretical framework that enables the investigation of the mental representations of false and corresponding true information and to predict under which conditions people are influenced by falsehood (Weil, Schul, & Mayo, 2020).