Simone Shamay-Tsoory
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1832964 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simone Shamay-Tsoory |
| NOMBRES | Simone |
| APELLIDO | Shamay-Tsoory |
| FIRMA | SHAMAY-TSOORY S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1088-5212 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The changing role of empathy in the link between direct and indirect trauma exposure and anxiety symptoms
These findings emphasize the necessity of distinguishing between types of exposure and support the development of cognitive empathy-focused interventions to enhance civilian mental health during continuous conflict situations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
The role of subcortical regions in affective empathy
The dual nature of empathy
While providing care to victims of mass casualty events, therapist's tendency for empathic concern and fantasy, which may contribute to treatment success, may also increase the therapist's vulnerability to PTSD. The results highlight the importance of adequate training and supervisory support for therapists in disaster contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
To Touch or to Talk
Social touch has the power to alleviate physical pain and emotional distress. Here we ask whether touch is perceived as more effective than words in comforting interactions, and whether its effects are influenced by interaction dynamics, individual preferences for touch, propensity to trust, and trait empathy. Across two studies, participants ( n = 199) were exposed to comics depicting comforting interactions between two friends, one experiencing…
Changing empathy perceptions improves connection
It takes two to empathize
While extant research on empathy has made significant progress in uncovering the mechanisms underlying the responses of an observer (empathizer) to the distress of another (target), it remains unclear how the interaction between the empathizer and the target contributes to distress regulation in the target. Here, we propose that behavioral and neural coupling during empathic interactions contribute to diminished distress. From November 2020 to No…
Measuring cognitive and affective Theory of Mind with the Italian Yoni task
Theory of Mind (ToM), a high-order human social cognition skill, is relevant for mental health and wellbeing and frequently impaired in many clinical conditions. To detect ToM difficulties, validated and standardized measures need to be adopted in clinical practice. The Yoni task provides a comprehensive evaluation of first-order, second-order, affective and cognitive mentalistic inferences. However, the Yoni task remains a time-demanding tool wi…
The Relationship between Creativity and Attitudes toward Intergroup Conflicts
The maintenance and escalation of intergroup conflicts have been explained by negative emotions and attitudes toward outgroup members. Considering that creative cognition entails the ability to generate diverse and new ideas, we sought to investigate whether creativity may contribute to overcoming negative emotions and attitudes associated with intergroup conflicts. Therefore, we examined whether individual differences in creativity predict confl…
The Impact of Creativity Training on Inter-Group Conflict-Related Emotions
Negative emotions toward outgroup members are primary factors in maintaining and escalating inter-group conflicts. Building on studies showing that highly creative individuals exhibit fewer negative emotions toward outgroup members, we examined whether training creativity by means of divergent thinking tasks would reduce negative emotions toward outgroup members in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Experiment 1 examined the effecti…
Adaptive Empathy
Empathy is usually deployed in social interactions. Nevertheless, common measures and examinations of empathy study this construct in isolation from the person in distress. In this article we seek to extend the field of examination to include both empathizer and target to determine whether and how empathic responses are affected by feedback and learned through interaction. Building on computational approaches in feedback-based adaptations (e.g., …
A Multifaceted Approach to Measure Creativity across Cultures
Creativity is a multifaceted construct, yet traditionally measured as divergent thinking (DT) with originality as its main focus. As originality tends to be discouraged in East Asian cultures, this measurement discrepancy is especially problematic in cross‐cultural studies. Given cultural variations in the centrality of context, in the current study we added two context‐dependent dimensions to frequently used DT tasks: a holism dimension to Torra…
Adaptive Empathy
Empathy allows us to respond to the emotional state of another person. Considering that an empathic interaction may last beyond the initial response, learning mechanisms may be involved in dynamic adaptation of the reaction to the changing emotional state of the other person. However, traditionally, empathy is assessed through sets of isolated reactions to another's distress. Here we address this gap by focusing on adaptive empathy, defined as th…
Inclusion motivation
Humans have a fundamental need to belong and affiliate with others. The term inclusion motivation , coined here, represents the drive of the individual toward an active attempt to be included, at least as equally as others, in social interactions. It is postulated to be triggered by social exclusion and further influenced by personal traits and other stable conditions. To assess inclusion motivation, we developed the active inclusion task (AIT), …
Cognitive and neural bases of decision-making causing civilian casualties during intergroup conflict
The sociality of social inhibition of return
The effect of co-actor group membership on the social inhibition of return effect
A Time-Varying Measure of Dyadic Synchrony for Three-Dimensional Motion
We propose a novel approach to the analysis of synchronized three-dimensional motion in dyads. Motion recorded at high time resolution, as with a gaming device, is preprocessed in each of the three spatial dimensions by spline smoothing. Synchrony is then defined, at each time point, as the cosine between the two individuals' estimated velocity vectors. The approach is extended to allow a time lag, allowing for the analysis of leader-follower dyn…
The role of oxytocin in empathy in PTSD
These results indicate that patients with PTSD have deficits in both emotional and cognitive empathic abilities and that their empathic difficulties may underlie their impairments in social and interpersonal skills. (PsycINFO Database Record
The Dopamine D4 receptor gene shows a gender-sensitive association with cognitive empathy
Increasing evidence points to a role of dopaminergic pathways in modulating social behavior. Specifically, a polymorphic region in the third exon of the Dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) has been associated with a host of social behaviors, often in an environment-sensitive manner. Empathy is thought to be an important motivator of prosocial behaviors and can be seen as multifaceted, combining cognitive empathy (CE) and emotional empathy (EE). In the cu…
The Neural Bases for Empathy
Human empathy relies on the ability to share emotions as well as the ability to understand the other’s thoughts, desires, and feelings. Recent evidence points to 2 separate systems for empathy: an emotional system that supports our ability to empathize emotionally and a cognitive system that involves cognitive understanding of the other’s perspective. Converging evidence from neuroimaging and lesion studies shows that a neural network that includ…
From DNA to Social Cognition
Two systems for empathy
Recent evidence suggests that there are two possible systems for empathy: a basic emotional contagion system and a more advanced cognitive perspective-taking system. However, it is not clear whether these two systems are part of a single interacting empathy system or whether they are independent. Additionally, the neuroanatomical bases of these systems are largely unknown. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that emotional empathic abilities …
Two systems for empathy
Recent evidence suggests that there are two possible systems for empathy: a basic emotional contagion system and a more advanced cognitive perspective-taking system. However, it is not clear whether these two systems are part of a single interacting empathy system or whether they are independent. Additionally, the neuroanatomical bases of these systems are largely unknown. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that emotional empathic abilities …
The Neural Bases for Empathy
Human empathy relies on the ability to share emotions as well as the ability to understand the other’s thoughts, desires, and feelings. Recent evidence points to 2 separate systems for empathy: an emotional system that supports our ability to empathize emotionally and a cognitive system that involves cognitive understanding of the other’s perspective. Converging evidence from neuroimaging and lesion studies shows that a neural network that includ…
From DNA to Social Cognition
The Dopamine D4 receptor gene shows a gender-sensitive association with cognitive empathy
Increasing evidence points to a role of dopaminergic pathways in modulating social behavior. Specifically, a polymorphic region in the third exon of the Dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) has been associated with a host of social behaviors, often in an environment-sensitive manner. Empathy is thought to be an important motivator of prosocial behaviors and can be seen as multifaceted, combining cognitive empathy (CE) and emotional empathy (EE). In the cu…
The role of oxytocin in empathy in PTSD
These results indicate that patients with PTSD have deficits in both emotional and cognitive empathic abilities and that their empathic difficulties may underlie their impairments in social and interpersonal skills. (PsycINFO Database Record
A Time-Varying Measure of Dyadic Synchrony for Three-Dimensional Motion
We propose a novel approach to the analysis of synchronized three-dimensional motion in dyads. Motion recorded at high time resolution, as with a gaming device, is preprocessed in each of the three spatial dimensions by spline smoothing. Synchrony is then defined, at each time point, as the cosine between the two individuals' estimated velocity vectors. The approach is extended to allow a time lag, allowing for the analysis of leader-follower dyn…
The sociality of social inhibition of return
The effect of co-actor group membership on the social inhibition of return effect
A Multifaceted Approach to Measure Creativity across Cultures
Creativity is a multifaceted construct, yet traditionally measured as divergent thinking (DT) with originality as its main focus. As originality tends to be discouraged in East Asian cultures, this measurement discrepancy is especially problematic in cross‐cultural studies. Given cultural variations in the centrality of context, in the current study we added two context‐dependent dimensions to frequently used DT tasks: a holism dimension to Torra…
Adaptive Empathy
Empathy allows us to respond to the emotional state of another person. Considering that an empathic interaction may last beyond the initial response, learning mechanisms may be involved in dynamic adaptation of the reaction to the changing emotional state of the other person. However, traditionally, empathy is assessed through sets of isolated reactions to another's distress. Here we address this gap by focusing on adaptive empathy, defined as th…
Inclusion motivation
Humans have a fundamental need to belong and affiliate with others. The term inclusion motivation , coined here, represents the drive of the individual toward an active attempt to be included, at least as equally as others, in social interactions. It is postulated to be triggered by social exclusion and further influenced by personal traits and other stable conditions. To assess inclusion motivation, we developed the active inclusion task (AIT), …
Cognitive and neural bases of decision-making causing civilian casualties during intergroup conflict
Adaptive Empathy
Empathy is usually deployed in social interactions. Nevertheless, common measures and examinations of empathy study this construct in isolation from the person in distress. In this article we seek to extend the field of examination to include both empathizer and target to determine whether and how empathic responses are affected by feedback and learned through interaction. Building on computational approaches in feedback-based adaptations (e.g., …
Measuring cognitive and affective Theory of Mind with the Italian Yoni task
Theory of Mind (ToM), a high-order human social cognition skill, is relevant for mental health and wellbeing and frequently impaired in many clinical conditions. To detect ToM difficulties, validated and standardized measures need to be adopted in clinical practice. The Yoni task provides a comprehensive evaluation of first-order, second-order, affective and cognitive mentalistic inferences. However, the Yoni task remains a time-demanding tool wi…
The Relationship between Creativity and Attitudes toward Intergroup Conflicts
The maintenance and escalation of intergroup conflicts have been explained by negative emotions and attitudes toward outgroup members. Considering that creative cognition entails the ability to generate diverse and new ideas, we sought to investigate whether creativity may contribute to overcoming negative emotions and attitudes associated with intergroup conflicts. Therefore, we examined whether individual differences in creativity predict confl…
The Impact of Creativity Training on Inter-Group Conflict-Related Emotions
Negative emotions toward outgroup members are primary factors in maintaining and escalating inter-group conflicts. Building on studies showing that highly creative individuals exhibit fewer negative emotions toward outgroup members, we examined whether training creativity by means of divergent thinking tasks would reduce negative emotions toward outgroup members in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Experiment 1 examined the effecti…
It takes two to empathize
While extant research on empathy has made significant progress in uncovering the mechanisms underlying the responses of an observer (empathizer) to the distress of another (target), it remains unclear how the interaction between the empathizer and the target contributes to distress regulation in the target. Here, we propose that behavioral and neural coupling during empathic interactions contribute to diminished distress. From November 2020 to No…
The role of subcortical regions in affective empathy
The dual nature of empathy
While providing care to victims of mass casualty events, therapist's tendency for empathic concern and fantasy, which may contribute to treatment success, may also increase the therapist's vulnerability to PTSD. The results highlight the importance of adequate training and supervisory support for therapists in disaster contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
To Touch or to Talk
Social touch has the power to alleviate physical pain and emotional distress. Here we ask whether touch is perceived as more effective than words in comforting interactions, and whether its effects are influenced by interaction dynamics, individual preferences for touch, propensity to trust, and trait empathy. Across two studies, participants ( n = 199) were exposed to comics depicting comforting interactions between two friends, one experiencing…
Changing empathy perceptions improves connection
The changing role of empathy in the link between direct and indirect trauma exposure and anxiety symptoms
These findings emphasize the necessity of distinguishing between types of exposure and support the development of cognitive empathy-focused interventions to enhance civilian mental health during continuous conflict situations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Psychology (17 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Cognition (11 obras) · Empathy (11 obras) · Cognitive psychology (10 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras) · Neuroscience (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Action Observation and Synchronization (5 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 obras)