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I'm a MA student in the applied neuropsychology program. My current thesis research regards the relationship between individual differences in physical pain sharing and affective state sharing. My main research interest is the relationship between different components of empathic and prosocial processes.
I am a student in the direct PhD program in Psychology at the Hebrew University, interested in the mechanisms that enable our understanding of others' emotions and feelings. Specifically, I investigate how different information channels (visual, auditory) contribute differentially to cognitive and affective empathy in neurotypical and autistic individuals. In my research, I combine behavioral, psychophysiology and EEG methods as well as advanced statistical methods (e.g., mixed model analysis, Bayesian modeling analysis). I am also involved in projects investigating the effects of sleep disturbances on perception and behavior.
Publications:
Jospe, K., Genzer, S., Manson, L., Ong, D., Zaki, J., Soroker, N., & Perry, A. (in press). Impaired empathic accuracy following damage to the left hemisphere. Biological Psychology.
Choshen-Hillel, S., Sadras, I., Gordon-Hecker, T., Genzer, S., Rekhtman, D., Caruso, E. M., Clements, K. L., Ohler, A., Gozal, D., Israel, S., Perry, A., & Gileles-Hillel, A. (in press). Nightshift bias in pain management: Physicians in the emergency department experience less empathy for patients' pain and prescribe fewer analgesics during nightshifts. TheProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Genzer, S., Ong, D. C., Zaki, J., & Perry, A. (2022). Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac011
Rum, Y., Genzer, S., Perry, A., Markovitch, N., Jenkins, J., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2022). Are there positive effects of having a sibling with a disability? The development of empathy in children. Child Development.https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13740
Mandelkorn, U.,* Genzer, S.,* Choshen-Hillel, S., Reiter, J., Meira e Cruz, M., Hochner, H., Kheirandish-Gozal, L., Gozal, D., & Gileles-Hillel, A. (2020). Escalation of sleep disturbances amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional international study. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, jcsm-8800. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.8800
*Contributed equally
Jospe, K., Genzer, S., Klein Selle, N., Ong, D., Zaki, J., & Perry, A. (2020). The contribution of linguistic and visual cues to physiological synchrony and empathic accuracy. Cortex, 132, 296-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.001
I am broadly interested in the underlying mechanisms that enable social cognition in humans. More specifically, I am intrigued by self and other differentiation that lie in the basis of empathic perception, in the abilities to understand or to feel as the other. To this end, I currently develop a study that aims to examine the relationship between Executive Functions (EF) and Empathy. In particular, I am interested in finding efficient and informative ways to capture an in-depth understanding of these inter-relations to better understand how empathic behavior, as well as cognitive resources, interact to influence how human act in different social situations.My additional focus of interest is in assessing the dynamics and stability over time of various social cognitive processes under natural (as opposed to laboratory) settings. A long-term goal of mine is to establish assessment tools that can, on the one hand, help identify the specific brain circuits involved in social cognition deficiencies and, on the other hand, facilitate treating clinical patients suffering from those deficiencies.
