I am Michael Gilead, a psychologist at Ben-Gurion University's Department of Psychology, and this is my lab website.
My field of research is social-cognitive neuroscience. This means that:
I am mostly interested in phenomena that seem to be the result of the social/cultural and communicative/symbolic capacities of humans (for example, the ability to regulate one's emotions, political conflict). In thinking of these phenomena, I focus on individual-level mental events that may subserve them (e.g., perspective-taking processes, the workings of motivational systems), often applying a biological perspective (i.e., thinking in terms of evolutionary functions and biological systems, using neuroimaging methods).
In terms of more concrete topics and questions, I'm interested in the following:
intersubjectivity (i.e., social learning, perspective taking, internalization, theory-of-mind), the default network (and the brain's functional neuroanatomy in general), moral/political judgement, evolutionary psychology and gene-culture co-evolution, emotion and emotion regulation, the ideas of psychodynamic psychology, language and symbolic thought, mental representation, mental simulation.
The lab is located in building 98, room 120.
Students who are interested in joining the lab can email me at - michael.gilead@gmail.com
My field of research is social-cognitive neuroscience. This means that:
I am mostly interested in phenomena that seem to be the result of the social/cultural and communicative/symbolic capacities of humans (for example, the ability to regulate one's emotions, political conflict). In thinking of these phenomena, I focus on individual-level mental events that may subserve them (e.g., perspective-taking processes, the workings of motivational systems), often applying a biological perspective (i.e., thinking in terms of evolutionary functions and biological systems, using neuroimaging methods).
In terms of more concrete topics and questions, I'm interested in the following:
intersubjectivity (i.e., social learning, perspective taking, internalization, theory-of-mind), the default network (and the brain's functional neuroanatomy in general), moral/political judgement, evolutionary psychology and gene-culture co-evolution, emotion and emotion regulation, the ideas of psychodynamic psychology, language and symbolic thought, mental representation, mental simulation.
The lab is located in building 98, room 120.
Students who are interested in joining the lab can email me at - michael.gilead@gmail.com