Gali Weissberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4971076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gali Weissberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gali |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissberger |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSBERGER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | (Psychological Sciences Section) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3648-4866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 24 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Associations among social network relationships, cognitive functioning and financial exploitation
Financial exploitation (FE) of older adults results in devastating consequences. Studies have highlighted social and cognitive factors as separate risk factors of FE, but few have considered their interactive effect on FE risk. This study examines whether social relationships, cognitive functioning and their interactions are associated with FE experiences in a nationally representative sample of 704 community-dwelling Israeli adults aged 50 or ol…
Effects of hearing aid use on memory, executive function, and cognitive impairment among older adults with hearing loss
Cognitive benefits of hearing aid use were found among older adults with hearing loss, with mixed evidence based on different domains. Personalized interventions among individuals with different characteristics were recommended in the hearing aids rehabilitation
Cognitive dispersion and depressive symptoms in aging
Our findings highlight the importance of monitoring depression during clinic visits, as it is significantly related to concurrent cognitive performance in aging populations. Since dispersion and not depression predicted decline over time, cognitive dispersion may serve as a specific marker of future impairment risk
Correlates of daily memory lapses in older adults
Daily memory lapses in older adults are primarily related to between-person differences in cognitive performance, health, and age awareness, rather than short-term daily fluctuations. These findings suggest that stable individual differences, rather than day-to-day changes, are most predictive of daily memory lapses. Day-to-day variations in memory lapses may instead be influenced by factors not captured in the present study, such as fatigue, str…
The effect of positive and negative daily social media emotional experiences on older adults’ subjective age
Social media has become instrumental for older adults in maintaining social connections, which are an integral component of older adults’ well-being. However, little is known about how daily positive/negative social media emotional experiences are associated with older adults’ subjective views of aging. The current study examined daily emotional experiences related to WhatsApp groups and their association with subjective age (feeling younger/olde…
Factors Explaining Age-Related Prospective Memory Performance Differences
Perceived control buffers against variability in day-to-day cognition in midlife and older age
Study findings suggest that perceived control, a modifiable predictor of healthy aging, may facilitate the maintenance of more stable cognitive performance, especially among individuals who are in early-to-late midlife
Cognitive dedifferentiation in later life
The current results have implications for longitudinal g modeling choices: it cannot be assumed that g's composition is the same over time. Future longitudinal research will be important in clarifying the incremental validity, determinants, mechanisms, and implications of cognitive differentiation and dedifferentiation across the lifespan
Effects of mindfulness training on sustained attention and mind-wandering in older adults
Our findings suggest that mindfulness training compared to an active control may not differentially enhance attentional control among older adults
Adolescent IQ and performance-based measures of physical function in old age
Objectives Early-life intellectual quotient (IQ) is a recognized predictor of overall health in late life. Building on this evidence, the present study examined the association between IQ in adolescence and performance-based measures of physical function in old age and tested potential mediators of this association. Methods Participants (N = 5,750) were from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Measures of IQ and socioeconomic status were obtained i…
Modifiable Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Differ by Sex and Apoe4
Objectives The extent to which lifestyle shapes trajectories of normal cognitive aging, and the factors with highest potential for mitigating cognitive decline, remain poorly characterized. Methods Participants of the Rancho Bernardo Study underwent demographic, health, and behavioral characterization at baseline, along with up to 7 cognitive assessments over a 27-year follow-up period. Factor analysis of 24 baseline risk variables identified 9 c…
Exploring the Influence of Loneliness on Cognitive Decline
Objectives Loneliness is prevalent among older adults, who may experience age-related or pathological cognitive changes. However, there’s a limited understanding of how loneliness affects cognitive decline and if the relationship differs by race. This study investigates the impact of loneliness on cognitive decline among Black and White older adults. Methods 3,082 participants with 20,882 follow-ups over 10 years were included from the RUSH RADC …
Gender differences in work expectations and psychological distress
Findings highlight the complex interplay between biological sex and social contexts in shaping expectations regarding work in later life
Training Autobiographical Memory in Older Adults Using Photos From Wearable Cameras
Objectives Older adults are substantially impaired in memory for specific past events, particularly for memory of contextual information, such as when an event happened (temporal-order memory). In the current study, we investigated a novel approach for training temporal-order memory in older adults using wearable cameras that automatically take first-person photos of participants’ lives. Methods As opposed to the traditional method of training me…
Relationship Difficulty Is Associated With Poorer Mental Health in Later Life
Objectives Integration into social networks is an important promotor of well-being and aging healthily, yet the dark side of social networks includes encounters with network members that are perceived as unpleasant, demanding, or difficult. This study investigates the association of relationship difficulty in older adults’ core networks with the mental health outcomes of loneliness, depression, and anxiety. Methods Survey data were collected from…
Loneliness and Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease, Axonal Damage, and Astrogliosis
Objectives Loneliness is associated with an elevated risk of dementia. There is mixed evidence from imaging studies on whether loneliness is associated with neuropathology in dementia-free adults. This study tests whether loneliness is associated with plasma neurobiomarkers of amyloid (Aβ42/Aβ40), phosphorylated tau 181 (pTau181), neurofilament light chain (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and imaging measures of amyloid and tau. …
Age, income, and the discounting of delayed monetary losses
Objectives Previous studies failed to find age-related differences in the discounting of delayed, monetary losses, potentially due to their failure to examine the effects of income and their use of relatively small loss amounts. Accordingly, the present study examined the effects of age and income on the degree to which adults discount a broad range of loss amounts. Methods A total of 594 participants (age range: 20 to 80; income range: $100,000)…
Perceived Control, Cognitive Training, and Incident Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in the Active Study
Objectives Greater perception of control over important life outcomes has been linked to better cognitive performance and greater benefits from cognitive training interventions among older adults. However, it is not yet known whether perceived control predicts incident Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) or influences links between cognitive training and ADRD incidence. Methods Data were obtained from 2,021 participants in the Advanc…
Daily Dynamics of Resting-State Electroencephalographic Theta and Gamma Fluctuations Are Associated With Cognitive Performance in Healthy Aging
Thus, accounting for daily EEG fluctuations of brain activity contributes to a better understanding of subtle brain changes underlying individuals' cognitive performance in healthy aging. Results also provide arguments for considering the time of day when assessing cognition for old adults in a clinical context
The Relationship Between 10-Year Changes in Cognitive Control Beliefs and Cognitive Performance in Middle and Later Adulthood
Cognitive control beliefs are a promising mechanism to help protect against age-related declines in both executive functioning and episodic memory. Moreover, executive functioning also affects cognitive control beliefs. Specifically, those with higher executive functioning engage more frequently in stimulating cognitive activities, which helps maintain higher cognitive control beliefs
Contribution of Involuntary Job Loss to the Burden of Depressive Symptoms Over Two Decades in a National Study of Aging Adults
Involuntary job loss is associated with high depressive symptom burden in older persons, suggesting that screening and intervention soon after job loss may help mitigate depression
Where Do We Draw the Line? Perceptions of Abuse of Older Adults and Their Association With Ageism
Results raise serious concern about the perception of abuse toward older adults. Future studies should investigate the reasons for such perceptions and other contributing factors in order to identify effective mechanisms for change
Ageing Fast and Slow
This study found that recent cohorts feel younger than older cohorts. The onset of a health limitation represents only about half of the subjective age effect. This illustrates there are large selection effects into the group of people to whom health limitations occur, with people already feeling less young before the actual event occurrence
Characterizing Cognitive Dispersion and Its Correlates Across the Adult Lifespan in Midus
Objectives Although research has shown that higher levels of within-person variability across cognitive tasks (dispersion) are associated with cognitive decline in clinical samples, little is known about dispersion in comparatively younger, nonclinical, and national samples. A better understanding of dispersion is needed to elucidate for whom and under what circumstances dispersion can be used as a reliable indicator of cognitive health. Method W…
Depression and the Risk of Dementia and All-Cause Mortality Among Japanese Older Adults
Interventions targeting major depression may be an effective strategy for preventing dementia and premature death
The effect of positive and negative daily social media emotional experiences on older adults’ subjective age
Social media has become instrumental for older adults in maintaining social connections, which are an integral component of older adults’ well-being. However, little is known about how daily positive/negative social media emotional experiences are associated with older adults’ subjective views of aging. The current study examined daily emotional experiences related to WhatsApp groups and their association with subjective age (feeling younger/olde…
Characterizing Cognitive Dispersion and Its Correlates Across the Adult Lifespan in Midus
Objectives Although research has shown that higher levels of within-person variability across cognitive tasks (dispersion) are associated with cognitive decline in clinical samples, little is known about dispersion in comparatively younger, nonclinical, and national samples. A better understanding of dispersion is needed to elucidate for whom and under what circumstances dispersion can be used as a reliable indicator of cognitive health. Method W…
Perceived Types, Causes, and Consequences of Financial Exploitation
These narratives provide important insights into perceived financial exploitation experiences
Self-ratings of spoken language dominance
This study investigated correspondence between different measures of bilingual language proficiency contrasting self-report, proficiency interview, and picture naming skills. Fifty-two young (Experiment 1) and 20 aging (Experiment 2) Spanish–English bilinguals provided self-ratings of proficiency level, were interviewed for spoken proficiency, and named pictures in a Multilingual Naming Test (MINT); in Experiment 1, the Boston Naming Test (BNT) w…
Socioeconomic Mobility and Psychological and Cognitive Functioning in a Diverse Sample of Adults With and Without HIV
OBJECTIVE: This cross-sectional study examined the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) mobility from childhood to adulthood on psychological and cognitive well-being in African American and non-Hispanic White HIV-positive (HIV+) and HIV-seronegative (HIV-) adults who are part of an ongoing study investigating psychosocial and neurobehavioral effects of HIV. METHODS: Participants (N = 174, 24.1% female, 59.2% African American, 67.8% HIV+) were c…
Perceived Types, Causes, and Consequences of Financial Exploitation
These narratives provide important insights into perceived financial exploitation experiences
The Association Between Views of Aging and Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Adults
This cross-sectional study examined whether views of aging (VoA) relate to subjective cognitive complaints in two separate cohorts of older adults. Ageist attitudes, attitudes to aging (psychological loss, physical change, and psychological growth), subjective age, and subjective successful aging were examined. A moderating effect of chronological age was also examined. Samples included 572 adults aged 50 or older (Sample 1; mean age = 67.63, SD …
Daily Dynamics of Resting-State Electroencephalographic Theta and Gamma Fluctuations Are Associated With Cognitive Performance in Healthy Aging
Thus, accounting for daily EEG fluctuations of brain activity contributes to a better understanding of subtle brain changes underlying individuals' cognitive performance in healthy aging. Results also provide arguments for considering the time of day when assessing cognition for old adults in a clinical context
The Relationship Between 10-Year Changes in Cognitive Control Beliefs and Cognitive Performance in Middle and Later Adulthood
Cognitive control beliefs are a promising mechanism to help protect against age-related declines in both executive functioning and episodic memory. Moreover, executive functioning also affects cognitive control beliefs. Specifically, those with higher executive functioning engage more frequently in stimulating cognitive activities, which helps maintain higher cognitive control beliefs
Contribution of Involuntary Job Loss to the Burden of Depressive Symptoms Over Two Decades in a National Study of Aging Adults
Involuntary job loss is associated with high depressive symptom burden in older persons, suggesting that screening and intervention soon after job loss may help mitigate depression
Where Do We Draw the Line? Perceptions of Abuse of Older Adults and Their Association With Ageism
Results raise serious concern about the perception of abuse toward older adults. Future studies should investigate the reasons for such perceptions and other contributing factors in order to identify effective mechanisms for change
Ageing Fast and Slow
This study found that recent cohorts feel younger than older cohorts. The onset of a health limitation represents only about half of the subjective age effect. This illustrates there are large selection effects into the group of people to whom health limitations occur, with people already feeling less young before the actual event occurrence
Characterizing Cognitive Dispersion and Its Correlates Across the Adult Lifespan in Midus
Objectives Although research has shown that higher levels of within-person variability across cognitive tasks (dispersion) are associated with cognitive decline in clinical samples, little is known about dispersion in comparatively younger, nonclinical, and national samples. A better understanding of dispersion is needed to elucidate for whom and under what circumstances dispersion can be used as a reliable indicator of cognitive health. Method W…
Depression and the Risk of Dementia and All-Cause Mortality Among Japanese Older Adults
Interventions targeting major depression may be an effective strategy for preventing dementia and premature death
Self-Compassion and Emotion Dysregulation Mediate the Effect of Stress Appraisals on Elder Abuse and Neglect Behaviors in Dementia Family Caregiving
This study significantly advances the field by empirically showing a mechanistic pathway for a theoretical explanation of EAN. These findings represent a breakthrough for the field and identify modifiable intervention targets for future behavioral interventions to prevent EAN. Emotion (dys)regulation and self-compassion are modifiable traits and skills that can be learned, with robust evidence bases of efficacious interventions that can be adapte…
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster
On April 29, 2021, during an Ultra-Orthodox annual communal event in Meron, a crowd rush resulted in the deaths of 45 individuals. Experiencing such events may intensify death proximity (subjective nearness to death, SNtD) and death anxiety, and increase distress. Furthermore, the experience of grief following the trauma may disrupt defense mechanisms that reduce death-related anxieties. Thus, we examined the mediating role of death anxiety on th…
Factors Explaining Age-Related Prospective Memory Performance Differences
Perceived control buffers against variability in day-to-day cognition in midlife and older age
Study findings suggest that perceived control, a modifiable predictor of healthy aging, may facilitate the maintenance of more stable cognitive performance, especially among individuals who are in early-to-late midlife
Cognitive dedifferentiation in later life
The current results have implications for longitudinal g modeling choices: it cannot be assumed that g's composition is the same over time. Future longitudinal research will be important in clarifying the incremental validity, determinants, mechanisms, and implications of cognitive differentiation and dedifferentiation across the lifespan
Effects of mindfulness training on sustained attention and mind-wandering in older adults
Our findings suggest that mindfulness training compared to an active control may not differentially enhance attentional control among older adults
Adolescent IQ and performance-based measures of physical function in old age
Objectives Early-life intellectual quotient (IQ) is a recognized predictor of overall health in late life. Building on this evidence, the present study examined the association between IQ in adolescence and performance-based measures of physical function in old age and tested potential mediators of this association. Methods Participants (N = 5,750) were from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Measures of IQ and socioeconomic status were obtained i…
Modifiable Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Differ by Sex and Apoe4
Objectives The extent to which lifestyle shapes trajectories of normal cognitive aging, and the factors with highest potential for mitigating cognitive decline, remain poorly characterized. Methods Participants of the Rancho Bernardo Study underwent demographic, health, and behavioral characterization at baseline, along with up to 7 cognitive assessments over a 27-year follow-up period. Factor analysis of 24 baseline risk variables identified 9 c…
Exploring the Influence of Loneliness on Cognitive Decline
Objectives Loneliness is prevalent among older adults, who may experience age-related or pathological cognitive changes. However, there’s a limited understanding of how loneliness affects cognitive decline and if the relationship differs by race. This study investigates the impact of loneliness on cognitive decline among Black and White older adults. Methods 3,082 participants with 20,882 follow-ups over 10 years were included from the RUSH RADC …
Gender differences in work expectations and psychological distress
Findings highlight the complex interplay between biological sex and social contexts in shaping expectations regarding work in later life
Training Autobiographical Memory in Older Adults Using Photos From Wearable Cameras
Objectives Older adults are substantially impaired in memory for specific past events, particularly for memory of contextual information, such as when an event happened (temporal-order memory). In the current study, we investigated a novel approach for training temporal-order memory in older adults using wearable cameras that automatically take first-person photos of participants’ lives. Methods As opposed to the traditional method of training me…
Relationship Difficulty Is Associated With Poorer Mental Health in Later Life
Objectives Integration into social networks is an important promotor of well-being and aging healthily, yet the dark side of social networks includes encounters with network members that are perceived as unpleasant, demanding, or difficult. This study investigates the association of relationship difficulty in older adults’ core networks with the mental health outcomes of loneliness, depression, and anxiety. Methods Survey data were collected from…
Loneliness and Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease, Axonal Damage, and Astrogliosis
Objectives Loneliness is associated with an elevated risk of dementia. There is mixed evidence from imaging studies on whether loneliness is associated with neuropathology in dementia-free adults. This study tests whether loneliness is associated with plasma neurobiomarkers of amyloid (Aβ42/Aβ40), phosphorylated tau 181 (pTau181), neurofilament light chain (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and imaging measures of amyloid and tau. …
Age, income, and the discounting of delayed monetary losses
Objectives Previous studies failed to find age-related differences in the discounting of delayed, monetary losses, potentially due to their failure to examine the effects of income and their use of relatively small loss amounts. Accordingly, the present study examined the effects of age and income on the degree to which adults discount a broad range of loss amounts. Methods A total of 594 participants (age range: 20 to 80; income range: $100,000)…
Psychology (21 works) · Cognition (16 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (8 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (7 works) · Cognitive decline (7 works) · Cognitive aging (6 works)