Lab Members

Prof. Weinbach is a Clinical Psychologist and an associate professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Haifa. Prof. Weinbach obtained his MA in Clinical Psychology and PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He completed a 4- year internship in clinical psychology at the Child and Adolescents Eating Disorders Center at Soroka Medical Hospital. Prof. Weinbach completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Treatment Center at Stanford University.  Prof. Weinbach research integrates basic cognitive sciences with clinical research in order to improve the understanding of mechanisms that maintain and contribute to psychopathology. 

Emaill: nweinbach@psy.haifa.ac.il

Email: orlis2710@gmail.com 

Mor is interested in examining OCD-like models of eating disorders, in order to better understand circuits of emotion-behavior-cognition in eating disorders. Specifically, Mor experimentally investigates behaviors of repeated body and dietary checking, and their interrelationships with emotional and cognitive processes that underlie psychopathology, and are considered to maintain the disorder and emotional distress 

Email: morbenzaken@gmail.com

Meital's PhD thesis focuses on reciprocal links between emotion processing and cognitive functions. Meital’s main research interests involve the influence of inhibitory control on thin ideal internalization, the way in which inhibitory control attenuates emotional experience and understanding the underlying mechanisms for eating disorders in adolescence.

Email: meitaldavis@gmail.com

Maram's PhD work focuses on links between emotion regulation skills, response inhibition in the presence of food and emotional eating.

Email: maram.saad87@gmail.com 

Hadas’s research focuses on protective factors against body image concerns in female adolescents. The research explores how implementing emotion regulation strategies, such as self-compassion and reappraisal, can reduce body image dissatisfaction and buffer against the consequences of thin-ideal internalization. Another goal would be to explore how different interventions, which attempt to reduce thin-ideal internalization and the influence of appearance on self-worth, will affect the risk of developing eating disorder symptoms among adolescents. 

Email: hevhadas@gmail.com   

Shiran's research focuses on the indirect relationship between emotion regulation and eating behaviors. In particular, Shiran examines the relationship between the up-regulation of a negative or positive emotion towards a neutral stimulus and the resulting change in food consumption or in the desire to eat. The purpose of the study is to establish the association between these two concepts and to emphasize the importance of emotional therapy for patients with various eating disorders.

Email: shiranlevi1244@gmail.com   

Tammara's PhD work examines variables that can improve response inhibition training in patients with traumatic brain injury and healthy controls.

Email: tammymoshon@gmail.com

Bar’s research focuses on how the use of emotion regulation strategies such as emotional acceptance can help better cope with situations that involve emotional uncertainty.

Email: bartamar.dor@gmail.com 

Stav's research focuses on the mechanisms through which dialectical-behavioral therapy (DBT) skills and extrinsic emotion regulation strategies can help improve emotion regulation.

Email: stavs68@gmail.com    

Naama's research focuses to how resistance to the thin ideal can protect against the harmful consequences of exposure to the thin ideal on women's body image. 

Email: naamashimoni45@gmail.com    

Tamar's research focuses on the effect of radical acceptance of emotions on interpretation bias, the way we interpret ambiguous information.

Email: lichttamar@gmail.com   

Hila's research examines the impact of exposure to the thin ideal and body image dissatisfaction on the phenomenon of body checking.

Email: hilaloosh@gmail.com