CONTACT INFORMATION:
Department of Education and Educational Counseling
The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel
Room 5118
Phone number (office): 972-4-6423880
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ABOUT ME:
I study the effects of childhood and current environments on parental investment, interpersonal relationships, and self-regulation. My main emphasis is on the psychological and behavioral consequences of exposure to unpredictability or morbidity and mortality in one's close environment. My research is interdisciplinary in nature. As such, it combines theories and methods from various fields, including social psychology, developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, family studies, and relationship science. In my work, I employ a variety of research designs, including lab experiments, longitudinal, and dyadic designs.
WEB PRESENCE:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ohad_Szepsenwol
Google Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eIM6KdIAAAAJ&hl=en
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/I-8105-2019
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Early-life and proximate predictors of marital and parental functioning.
Early-life predictors of emotion regulation and stress reactivity.
Romantic relationships: initiation, functioning, and maintenance.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2006 – 2007: Statistics and methodology advisor, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
2007 – 2010: External faculty member, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
2008 – 2013: External faculty member, School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
2011 – 2013: Research director - Humanization Project (US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, PIs: Doron, G., Saguy, T., & Dovidio, J)
2013 – 2014: Project coordinator – Relationship Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (ROCD) (Israel Science Foundation Grant, PI: Doron, G.)
2013 – 2016: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, MN.
2014 – 2016: Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, MN.
2016 – 2017: Post-doctoral fellow, School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2016 – 2018: Lecturer, School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
2017 – 2018: Teaching associate, School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2018 – 2020: Senior lecturer: The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel
2020 – present: Associate professor: The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel
QUALIFICATIONS:
2005: Bachelors degree in Psychology from Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
2011: Ph.D. in Psychology from Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel (Direct route to Ph.D. as part of the Bar-Ilan doctoral fellowships of excellence program).
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
2005 – 2009: Recipient of the Bar-Ilan doctoral fellowships of excellence.
2017 – Teaching excellence award, School of Social Work & Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
GRANTS:
2018 - 2021: Developmental and interpersonal antecedents of parenting orientations and behavior: A life history perspective (Co-PI) [with Jeffry A. Simpson (PI) and Vladas Griskevicius (Co-PI)]. National Science Foundation (NSF).
2021 - 2025: The effects of unpredictability and morbidity-mortality on parental investment (PI). Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
ASSOCIATE EDITOR (JOURNALS):
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2021-present)
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER (JOURNALS):
Journal of Counseling Psychology (2020-2022)
Infant and Child Development (2021-present)
AD HOC REVIEWER (JOURNALS):
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Personal Relationships
Personality and Individual Differences
Self and Identity
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
International Journal of Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Psychological Science
Journal of Counseling Psychology
Plos One
Journal of Affective Disorders
Child Development
Development and Psychopathology
Infancy
Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
Infant and Child Development
Journal of Research in Adolescence
Journal of Drug Issues
Evolutionary Psychological Science
Journal of Personality
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
Obesity Reviews
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)
PHD DISSERTATION:
Szepsenwol, O. (2011). The role of the sexual behavioral system in regulating the use of evolutionary strategies for mate selection (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
PUBLICATIONS:
Shamay-Tsoory, S., Harari, H., Szepsenwol, O., & Levkovitz, Y. (2009). Neuropsychological evidence of impaired cognitive empathy in euthymic bipolar disorder. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 21(1), 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.21.1.59
Shahar, B., Carlin, E. R., Engle, D., Hegde, J., Szepsenwol, O., & Arkowitz, H. (2012). A pilot investigation of emotion-focused two-chair dialogue intervention for self-criticism. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 19(6), 496-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.762
Britton, W. B., Shahar, B., Szepsenwol, O., & Jacobs, J. W. (2012). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy improves emotion reactivity to social stress: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Behavior Therapy, 43(2), 365-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2011.08.006
Doron, G., Derby, D., Szepsenwol, O., & Talmor, D. (2012). Tainted Love: Exploring relationship-centered obsessive compulsive symptoms in two non-clinical cohorts. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 1(1), 16-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2011.11.002
Doron, G., Derby, D., Szepsenwol, O., & Talmor, D. (2012). Flaws and all: Exploring partner-focused obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 1(4), 234-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2012.05.004
Doron, G. Talmor, D., Szepsenwol, O., Derby, D. (2012). Relationship-centered obsessive-compulsive phenomena. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 18, 79-90.
Szepsenwol, O., Mikulincer, M., & Birnbaum, G. E. (2013). Misguided attraction: The contribution of normative and individual-differences components of the sexual system to mating preferences. Journal of Research in Personality, 47(3), 196-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.01.002
Doron, G., Szepsenwol, O., Elad-Strenger, J., Hargil, E., & Bogoslavsky, B. (2013). Entity perceptions of morality and character are associated with obsessive compulsive phenomena. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 32(7), 733-752. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2013.32.7.733
Doron, G., Szepsenwol, O., Karp, E., & Gal, N. (2013). Obsessing about intimate-relationships: Testing the double relationship-vulnerability hypothesis. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 44(4), 433-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2013.05.003
Doron, G., Derby, D., Szepsenwol, O. (2014). Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (ROCD): A conceptual framework. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 3(2), 169-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2013.12.005
Levit-Binnun, N., Szepsenwol, O., Stern-Ellran, K., & Engel-Yeger, B. (2014). The relationship between sensory responsiveness profiles, attachment orientations, and anxiety symptoms. Australian Journal of Psychology, 66(4), 233-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12064
Doron, G., Mizrahi, M., Szepsenwol, O. & Derby, D. (2014). Right or Flawed: Relationships obsessions and sexual satisfaction. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 11(9), 2218-2222. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsm.12616
Birnbaum, G. E., Mikulincer, M., Szepsenwol, O., Shaver, P. R., & Mizrahi, M. (2014). When sex goes wrong: A behavioral systems perspective on individual differences in sexual attitudes, motives, feelings, and behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(5), 822-842. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036021
Shahar, B., Szepsenwol, O., Zilcha-Mano, S., Haim, N., Zamir, O., Levi-Yeshuvi, S., & Levit-Binnun, N. (2015). A wait-list randomized controlled trial of loving-kindness meditation program for self-criticism. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 22(4), 346-356. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp. 1893
Shahar, B., Doron, G., & Szepsenwol, O. (2015). Childhood maltreatment, shame-proneness, and self-criticism in social anxiety disorder: A sequential mediational model. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 22(6), 570-579. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.1918
Szepsenwol, O., Mizrahi, M., & Birnbaum, G. E. (2015). Fatal suppression: The detrimental effects of sexual and attachment deactivation within emerging romantic relationships. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(5), 504-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550615572636
Doron, G., & Szepsenwol, O. (2015). Partner-focused obsessions and self-esteem: An experimental investigation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 47, 173-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.05.007
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., Griskevicius, V., & Raby, K. L. (2015). The effect of unpredictable early childhood environments on parenting in adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(6), 1045-1067. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000032
Mizrahi, M., Hirschberger, G., Mikulincer, M., Szepsenwol, O., & Birnbaum, G. E. (2016). Reassuring sex: Can sexual desire and intimacy reduce relationship-specific attachment insecurities? European Journal of Social Psychology, 46(4), 467-480. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2184
Doron, G., Derby, D., Szepsenwol, O., Nahaloni, E., & Moulding, R. (2016). Relationship obsessive compulsive disorder (ROCD): Interference, symptoms and maladaptive beliefs. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7, 58. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00058
Szepsenwol, O., Shahar, B., & Doron, G. (2016). Letting it linger: Exploring the longitudinal effects of relationship-related obsessive-compulsive phenomena. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 11, 101-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2016.10.001
Szepsenwol, O., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Young, E. S, Fleck, C., & Jones, R. E. (2017). The effect of predictable early childhood environments on sociosexuality in early adulthood. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 11(2), 131-145. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000082
Marshall, E. M., Kuijer, R. G., Simpson, J. A., & Szepsenwol, O. (2017). Standing on shaky ground? Dyadic and longitudinal posttraumatic stress effects on relationship quality post-earthquake. Journal of Family Psychology, 31(6), 721-733. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000305
Doron, G., Derby, D, & Szepsenwol, O. (2017). “I can’t stop thinking about my child’s flaws”: An investigation of parental preoccupation with their children’s perceived flaws. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 14, 106-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.06.007
Shai, D., Dollberg, D., Szepsenwol, O. (2017). The importance of parental verbal and embodied mentalizing in shaping parental experiences of stress and coparenting. Infant Behavior and Development, 49, 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.08.003
Zamir, O., Szepsenwol, O., Englund, M., Simpson, J. A. (2018). The role of dissociation in revictimization across the lifespan: A 32-year prospective study. Child Abuse and Neglect, 79, 144-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.02.001
Huelsnitz, C. O., Farrell, A. K., Simpson, J. A., Griskevicius, V., & Szepsenwol, O. (2018). Attachment and Jealousy: Understanding the dynamic experience of jealousy using the response escalation paradigm. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(12), 1664-1680. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218772530
Szepsenwol, O., & Simpson, J. A. (2019). Attachment within life history theory: An evolutionary perspective on individual differences in attachment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 25, 65-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.03.005
Szepsenwol, O., Zamir, O., & Simpson, J. A. (2019). The effect of early-life harshness and unpredictability on intimate partner violence in adulthood: A life history perspective. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(5), 1542-1556. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407518806680
Witte, A. M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., van Ijzendoorn, M. H., Szepsenwol, O., & Shai, D. (2020). Predicting infant-father attachment: the role of pre- and postnatal triadic family alliance and paternal testosterone levels. Attachment and Human Development, 22(6), 653-667. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2019.1680713
Levy, A., Tibi, L., Szepsenwol, O., Doron, G. (2020). Why do I obsess about my child’s flaws?”: Assessing the role of parental self-vulnerabilities in parent-child ROCD symptoms. Clinical Psychologist, 24(3), 285-293. https://doi.org/10.1111/cp.12217
Szepsenwol, O. (2020). The effect of childhood unpredictability on co-parenting relationships during the transition to parenthood: A life history approach. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(8-9), 2438-2458. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520918670
Szepsenwol, O., Shai, D., Zamir, O., Simpson, J. A. (2021). The effects of morbidity-mortality and economic unpredictability on parental distress: A life history approach. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(1), 189-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520959719
Witte, A. M., de Moor, M. H., Szepsenwol, O., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Shai, D. (2021). Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security. Infant Behavior and Development, 65, 101653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101653
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., Griskevicius, V., Zamir, O., Young, E. S., Shoshani, A., & Doron, G. (2022). The effects of childhood unpredictability and harshness on emotional control and relationship quality: A life history perspective. Development and Psychopathology, 34(2), 607-620. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421001371
Szepsenwol, O. (2022). Identifying developmental adaptations to early-life stress. Infant and Child Development, 31(1), e2290. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2290
Haimov, I., Szepsenwol, O., & Cohen, A. (2022). Associations between childhood stressors, Covid-19-related anxiety, and sleep quality of adults during the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Israel. Nature and Science of Sleep, 14, 1665-1675. https://doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S378271
Zamir, O., Szepsenwol, O., Shahar, B., Lassri, D., & Shai, D. (2023). The multifaceted role of empathy in the transmission of postpartum depressive symptoms between parents. Family Process, 62(2), 851-864. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12814
Cohen, A., Szepsenwol, O., & Haimov, I. (2023). Insomnia severity mediates the association between Covid-19 related anxiety and increase in tobacco smoking during the Covid-19 pandemic among adults. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 21(5), 608-619. https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2022.2147934
Shai, D., Szepsenwol, O., & Lassri, D. (2023). The emotional pathway to parenthood: Parental mentalizing mediates the association between alexithymia and parental emotion regulation in the transition to parenthood. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 14, 100622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100622
Gorelik, M., Szepsenwol, O., & Doron, G. (2023). Promoting couples’ resilience to relationship obsessive compulsive disorder (ROCD) symptoms using a CBT-based mobile application: A randomized controlled trial. Heliyon, 9, e21673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21673
Zamir, O., Oved, N., Szepsenwol, O., Estlein, R., Borelli, J. L., Granger, D. A., & Shai, D. (2024). The intersection between alexithymia, testosterone reactivity, and coparenting in fathers predicts child's prosocial behavior. Hormones and Behavior, 164, 105565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105565
Tager-Shafrir, T., Szepsenwol, O., Dvir, M., & Zamir, O. (2024). The Gaslighting Relationship Exposure Inventory: Reliability and validity in two cultures. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(10), 3123-3146. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241266942
Cohen, A., Haimov, I., & Szepsenwol, O. (2024). Associations of sleep quality with war-related anxiety, childhood stressors, and war-related stressors in a sample of adult Israeli civilians during the Hamas-Israel war. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 180, 394-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.11.003
Zreik, G., Szepsenwol, O., & Haimov, I. (2024). Parental childhood adversity and emotional functioning: Associations with child`s emotion regulation. Family Relations, 74(1), 144-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.13120
Szepsenwol, O., Zamir, O., Griskevicius, V., & Simpson, J. A. (in press). Early maltreatment, socioemotional competence, and parenting in adulthood: The moderating role of social network size. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100345
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Simpson, J. A., Young, E. S., Szepsenwol, O., & Griskevicius, V. (2017). An evolutionary life history perspective on personality and mating strategies. In A. T. Church (Ed.), The Praeger Handbook of Personality across Cultures (pp. 728-757). New York: Praeger/Greenwood.
Szepsenwol, O., & Simpson, J. A. (2021). Early attachment within a life history theory perspective. In R. A. Thompson, J. A. Simpson, & L. Berlin (Eds.), Attachment: The Fundamental Questions (pp. 219-226). Guilford Press.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Szepsenwol, O., Harari, H., Levkovitz, Y., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Lazovsky, M. (2007). Empathy deficits in bipolar disorder. Paper presented at the 11th conference of the Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry (ISBP), Kfar Giladi, Israel.
Szepsenwol, O., & Mikulincer, M. (July, 2010). Mating preferences: the moderating role of the sexual behavioral system. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Herzliya, Israel.
Szepsenwol, O. (Jan, 2012). The role of the sexual behavioral system in moderating mating preferences. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, San Diego, California.
Doron, G., Szepsenwol, O. Derby, S. D., & Talmor, D. (May, 2012). Relationship-related obsessive compulsive phenomena: Is it worth a systematic investigation? Paper presented at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EACBT), 2nd SIG meeting on OCD, Assisi, Italy.
Szepsenwol, O., Mizrahi, M., & Birnbaum, G. E. (July, 2012). Fatal suppression: The detrimental effect of sexual deactivation within romantic relationships. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Mizrahi, M., Hirschberger, G., Birnbaum, G. E., Mikulincer, M., & Szepsenwol, O. (July, 2012). Sexual healing: Can sex repair attachment insecurities? Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Doron, G., Szepsenwol, O. Derby, S. D., & Talmor, D. (2012). Relationship-related obsessive compulsive phenomena: What we know and what we don’t know. Paper presented at the Research Consortium on Intrusive Fear (RCIF), Montreal, Canada.
Doron, G., Derby, D., Szepsenwol. O., & Talmor. D. (Aug-Sep, 2012). Relationship-related obsessive compulsive (OC) symptoms: the case of partner focused OC phenomena. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EACBT) Congress, Geneva, Switzerland.
Szepsenwol, O., Mizrahi, M., & Birnbaum, G. E. (Jan, 2013). Fatal suppression: The detrimental effect of sexual deactivation within romantic relationships. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mizrahi, M., Birnbaum, G. E., Hirschberger, G., Mikulincer, M., & Szepsenwol, O. (Jan, 2013). Sexual healing: Can sex repair attachment insecurities? Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Doron, G., & Szepsenwol, O. (May, 2013). Relationship-related obsessive-compulsive phenomena: A one-year follow-up study. Paper presented at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EACBT), 3rd SIG meeting on OCD, Assisi, Italy.
Doron, G., Derby. D., Szepsenwol., O., & Nahaloni. E. (Jul, 2013). Dysfunctional beliefs and relationship-centered obsessive-compulsive symptoms in non-clinical and clinical samples. Paper presented at the 7th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Lima, Peru.
Doron, G., Efrati. Y., & Szepsenwol. O. (Jul, 2013). Scrupulosity in religious Jews is linked with attachment anxiety and over-reliance on the morality self-domain for self-worth. Paper presented at the 7th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Lima, Peru.
Doron, G., Szepsenwol. O., Karp. E., & Gal. N. (Jul, 2013). Relationship-centered obsessive compulsive symptoms: Evidence for the double-vulnerability hypothesis. Paper presented at the 7th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Lima, Peru.
Szepsenwol, O., Doron, G., Mizrahi, M. (July, 2014). Attachment anxiety as a vulnerability factor for relationship-related obsessive-compulsive phenomena in emerging relationships: a longitudinal dyadic investigation. Paper presented in the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., & Griskevicius, V. (Feb, 2015). Early stress and parenting: The effect of unpredictability experienced in early childhood on parenting orientations in adulthood. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA.
Simpson, J. A., Szepsenwol, O., Griskevicius, V., & Raby, K. L. (May, 2015). The effect of unpredictable early childhood environments on parenting orientation in adulthood. Address presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), New York, NY.
Simpson, J. A., Szepsenwol, O., Overall, N. C., Young, E. S., & Johnson, W. (Jul, 2015). The social and developmental origins of impulse control. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Conference on Self-regulation and Close Relationships, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Simpson, J. A., Szepsenwol, O., & Griskevicius, V. (Sep, 2015). The effect of unpredictable early childhood environments on parenting in adulthood. Address presented at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Relationships Pre-Conference, Denver, CO.
Doron. G., Szepsenwol. O., & Derby, D. (Aug-Sep, 2015). I obsess about my child's flaws: Impact and correlates of parent-child obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EACBT), Jerusalem, Israel
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., & Griskevicius, V. (July, 2016). The effect of unpredictable early childhood environments on parenting in adulthood. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Simpson, J. A., Szepsenwol, O., Griskevicius, V., Young, E. S., Fleck, C., & Jones, R. E. (July, 2016). The effect of predictable early childhood environments on sociosexuality in early adulthood. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Szepsenwol, O., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Young, E. S., Fleck, C., & Jones, R. E. (Jan, 2017). The effect of predictable early childhood environments on sociosexuality in early adulthood. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., & Griskevicius, V. (Mar, 2018). The effect of childhood unpredictability on emotional control and relationship quality: A life history perspective. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., & Griskevicius, V. (Jul, 2018). The effect of childhood unpredictability on emotional control and relationship quality: A life history perspective. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Fort Collins, CO.
Szepsenwol, O., Shai, D., Zamir, O., & Simpson, J. A. (Feb, 2019). The effects of morbidity-mortality and economic unpredictability on parental distress. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
Szepsenwol, O., & Zamir, O. (Feb, 2020). The effect of childhood unpredictability on co-parenting relationships: A life history approach. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Szepsenwol, O., Zamir, O., & Shai, D. (Jul-Sep, 2021). The effect of childhood unpredictability on coparenting relationships during the transition to parenthood: A life history approach. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, London, GB (virtual).
Szepsenwol, O. (Feb, 2022). Childhood unpredictability and harshness predict diminished sleep quality and worse physical health in adulthood: Mediation through emotion regulation difficulties. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Szepsenwol, O., Zamir, O., & Simpson, J. A. (Jul, 2023). The effects of childhood maltreatment on socio-emotional development and adult parenting: a protective function for social network size. Paper presented at the Stress, Trauma, Anxiety, and Resilience Society (STAR) 44th International Conference, Faro, Portugal.
Zamir, O., & Szepsenwol, O. (Jul, 2023). Mothers during breast cancer treatments: A mediation model involving emotion regulation, post-traumatic distress, and coercive parenting practices. Poster presented at the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) World Congress, Milan, Italy.
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., Zamir, O. (Feb, 2024). Having many close friends buffers childhood maltreatment effects on parents. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Tager-Shafrir, T., Szepsenwol, O., Dvir, M., & Zamir, O. (Jun, 2023). The Relationship Gaslighting Victimization Inventory: Reliability and validity in two cultures. Paper presented at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Krakow, Poland.
Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., & Zamir, O. (Jul, 2024). Implicit and explicit parenting-related attitudes serially mediate the association between early childhood exposure to morbidity-mortality cues and observed parenting behaviors in women. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Boston, MA.
Zamir, O., & Szepsenwol, O. (Jul, 2024). A history of childhood maltreatment hinders marital satisfaction of both dyad members: A new dyadic mechanism. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Boston, MA.
Tager-Shafrir, T., Szepsenwol, O., & Simpson, J. A. (Jul, 2024). Beyond the ballot: the association between men's political views, division of parental work, women's relationship quality and parental satisfaction, and the moderating role of social support. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Boston, MA.
Nakamura, M., Szepsenwol, O., Griskevicius, V., Eller, J., Jones, R., & Simpson, J. A. (Jul, 2024). Impact of child temperament and discrepancies of parent supportiveness on child agency. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Biannual Conference, Boston, MA.
Zamir, O., & Szepsenwol, O. (Sep, 2024). The protective power of spousal emotional support in mitigating the link between childhood maltreatment and PTSD symptoms. Paper presented at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Szepsenwol, O., Tager-Shafrir, T., & Simpson, J. A. (Feb, 2025). Participation in parental work of liberal vs. conservative fathers: Effects on mothers' perceived relationship quality, parental satisfaction, and parental self-efficacy. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
Szepsenwol, O. (Feb, 2025). Early unpredictability and parenting: A dyadic approach. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
Szepsenwol, O., Tager-Shafrir, T., & Simpson, J. A. (June, 2025). The effects of childhood and recent unpredictability on parental hostility: Interactions and congruence effects in a dyadic design. Paper presented at the 36th Conference of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES), Atlantic City, NJ.
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