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Devora Newman

Devora Newman

Devora.Newman@mail.huji.ac.il
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Current Studies

PhD candidate in the direct PhD Track for Outstanding Students, advisor: Dr. Ruth Mayo.

Previous Degrees

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

Research Interests

Devora’s primary research interests focus on the societal factors and individual dispositions that contribute to the erosion of our shared reality, as expressed by people's loss of discernment between agreed upon, shared facts and “alternative facts”. Devora developed a new scale to operationalize and capture this lack of discernment and is measuring the mutual influence of related traits such as distrust and a lack of intellectual humility.

She is the recipient of the President’s Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. Students and of the Barbara and Joseph Mandel Ph.D. Honors Program.

Publications

Newman, D., Lewandowsky, S & Mayo, R. (2022). “Believing in Nothing and Believing in Everything: The Underlying Cognitive Paradox of Anti COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes”, Personality and Individual Differences, 189(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111522.

 

Anat Lande

Anat Lande

anat.lande@mail.huji.ac.il
Current Studies

PhD candidate in the direct PhD Track for Outstanding Students, advisor: Dr. Ruth Mayo.

Previous Degrees

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

Research Interests

Anat’s main research interest addresses the public’s declining trust in science and its institutions as one of the consequences of the post-truth era. More specifically, Anat suggests using a self-reasoning strategy based on procedural learning in order to re-establish trust in facts as well as scientific and accredited sources, rather than leaning on subjective and personal experience.


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Adva Liberman

adva.liberman@mail.huji.ac.il
Current Studies

PhD candidate, The Jerusalem School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Advisor: Prof. Lilach Sagiv, The Jerusalem School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dr. Ruth Mayo.

Previous Degrees

M.B.A. in Marketing and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Advisor: Prof. Lilach Sagiv. B.A. in Business Administration and Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Research Interests

Adva’s current research focuses on the effects of the experience of learned helplessness on (dis)trust and the values underlying the different reactions to learned helplessness experiences.

Aysheh Maslemani

Aysheh Maslemani

Aysheh.Maslemani@mail.huji.ac.il
Current Studies

PhD candidate, Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Hebrew University. Advisors: Prof. Ariel Knafo-Noam and Dr. Ruth Mayo.

Specialization in Rationality studies at the Federman Center for Rationality.

Member of “The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture” research group at the Mandel Scholion Research Center

 

Previous Degrees

M.A. in cognitive and brain sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Advisor: Prof. Anat Maril

B.A in chemistry and business administration from Bethlehem University in the Palestinian Territories.

 

Research Interests

Ayshes's research interests are in the interaction between culture and mind, comparing cognitive mechanisms in people from different social and religious backgrounds. Her PhD dissertation examines the relationship between values and the ability to distinguish between facts and opinions, inquiring, are people’s values predictive of which ideas they see as facts, and which as opinion? and what is the distraction mechanism that can explain this relationship?

 

 

Tom Mushkat

Tom Mushkat

Tom.Mushkat@mail.huji.ac.il
Current Studies

PhD candidate, Department of Psychology. Advisor: Dr. Ruth Mayo.

Previous Degrees

M.A. in Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, advisor: Prof. Ran Hassin.

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

Research Interests

 In his research, Tom aims to explore how different mindsets can improve peoples' decisions by mitigating heuristics and cognitive biases that influence decision-making processes.

Eyal Pozniak

Eyal Pozniak

EyalPoz@gmail.com
Current Studies

PhD candidate, Department of Psychology. Advisor: Dr. Ruth Mayo.

Previous Degrees

M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, advisor: Prof. Maya Tamir.

B.A. in Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Research Interests

In his research, Eyal studies the ways (dis)trust affects the evaluation and acceptance of factual information. He is especially interested in future applications of his research in science communication.