I am a third year B.A student studying psychology and theatre studies and continuing to a PhD as a direct track. I am interested in the different elements that may influence our ability to communicate our emotions effectively and allow us to better understand each other. I am also interested in trying to implement psychological insights into everyday life. Alongside that, I am also the lab's administrative manager, taking care of everything that needs to be done to keep the ship running smoothly :)

 

 

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:

• Ben Adiva, Yoad., Genzer, S., & Perry, A. (in press). Vicarious pain experience and its relation to empathic processes.

   

  Inbar, M., Genzer, S., Perry, A., Grossman, E., & Landau, A. N. (2023). Intonation Units in spontaneous speech evoke a neural response. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(48), JN-RM-0235-23. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0235-23.2023

   

  Jospe, K., Genzer, S., Manson, L., Ong, D., Zaki, J., Soroker, N., & Perry, A. (2022). Impaired empathic accuracy following damage to the left hemisphere. Biological Psychology, 172, 108380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108380

   

  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. (2022). Nightshift bias in pain management: Physicians in the emergency department experience less empathy for patients' pain and prescribe fewer analgesics during nightshifts. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119(27). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200047119

   

  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, 17(9), 788-801. 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, 93(4), 1121-1128. 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, 17(1), 45-53. 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 Nur Kassem, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Anat Perry and Prof. Eran Halperin. I finished my studies in Clinical Psychology at the Hebrew University, and I have earlier received a bachelor's degree in Psychology and English Literature. My research investigates the interplay of language and emotions in conflict regions. Moreover, I intend to examine the behavioral, physiological, and neural mechanisms concerning empathic accuracy among conflict groups in power relations.

 

 

I’m Yael Barak, an M.A. student in Neuropsychology under the supervision of Prof. Anat Perry. My research focuses on the differences between cognitive empathy and affective empathy and their relationship to face scanning.

 

I am a M.A. student in the Applied Neuropsychology program at the Hebrew University. My research interests center on investigating the influence of internal factors on empathic abilities. Currently, my thesis research focuses on exploring the impact of chronotype on various aspects of empathy and prosocial behavior.

I am a Master’s student in Cognitive Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, currently engaged in two main research projects:

1. Examining the effects of empathy delivered by AI compared to human-provided empathy, and exploring how different modalities of interaction (text, audio and video) influence these interactions.
2. Investigating how empathy directed toward individuals differs from empathy toward groups, and analyzing the neural correlates of this distinction using EEG.

My research combines behavioral experiments through online paradigms with neural measures to deepen our understanding of empathy in these diverse contexts.