People

Michael Gilead (PI)

Michael is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. His research utilizes neuroimaging, experimental, and big-data methodologies to investigate humans’ symbolic cognition and the process of symbolic interaction. He has authored papers on topics such as mentalizing, mental simulation, language and cognition, emotion, and decision making.

Inon Raz (Ph.D. student)

Inon received a B.A. in Psychology from the Open University, and his M.A. in Social Psychology from Ben-Gurion University (Magna Cum Laude). His Ph.D. research uses behavioral and brain imaging (fMRI) methods to examine how emotions change across time. He is also a pilot and a senior skydiving instructor and a professional manager at a skydiving school.

Yhonatan Shemesh (Ph.D. student)

My research focuses on mental models; how knowledge is represented in the mind. I am particularly interested in the interface between the human evolutionary cognitive endowment and the modern world. My Masters thesis investigated the joint contribution of ideology and personality in determining lay perceptions of the economy, In 2018, I co-authored a book on economic psychology titled How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters (Routledge)

Avi Gamoran (Ph.D. student)

Avi received his M.A. in cognitive science at at Ben-Gurion University. His research project, jointly supervised with Dr. Talya Sadeh from Ben-Gurion University, utilizes natural language processing methods to investigate processes of reality monitoring.

Maor Levitin (M.A student, lab manager)

Maor received his B.A. in Psychology at the Open University. He is currently the SCI lab manager, and an M.A. student in the social psychology program. His research focuses on mentalizing and emotion regulation.

Tali Patt (M.A student)

Tali is currently an M.A student in Social Psychology and is simultaneously completing her B.A in Psychology, both at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on understanding how the passage of time changes people's construal of the social world. Tali is also an accomplished musician, playing the piano and the double-bass.

Maayan Peer

Maayan received her B.A. in Psychology at Tel Aviv University (Cum Laude), and she is currently an M.A. student in the Social Psychology program. Her research project focuses on the wisdom of the crowd in the context of geopolitical forecasting, using Natural Language Processing methods to analyze and predict when it fails.

PhD Alumni

Dr. Almog Simchon, Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Ann Haberman, Clinical Psychologist

Maor Levitin (M.A student, lab manager) ​​Maor received his B.A. in Psychology at the Open University. He is currently the SCI lab manager, and an M.A. student in the social psychology program. His research focuses on mentalizing and emotion regulation.

PhD Alumni

Maor Levitin (M.A student, lab manager)

Maor received his B.A. in Psychology at the Open University. He is currently the SCI lab manager, and an M.A. student in the social psychology program. His research focuses on mentalizing and emotion regulation.