Prof. Gal Sheppes
Research work
1. Understanding core regulatory stages that control emotion including:
A) Identification of the need to regulate emotions.
B) Selecting among available regulatory options.
C) Actively implementing different regulatory options.
D) Monitoring the ongoing operation of regulatory options.
2. How impairments in core regulatory stages are related to various psychopathologies.
3. Understanding how social media usage influences procrastination, mental health and goal directed behavior.
Areas of interest & scientific knowledge
Clinical Neuroscience
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Selected Publications
- Fine, N., Ben-Aharon, N., Armon, D., Seligman, Z., Helpman, L., Bloch, M., . . . Sheppes, G. (in press).Reduced emotion regulatory selection flexibility in post-traumatic stress disorder: Converging performance-based evidence from two PTSD populations. Psychological Medicine.
https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/galsheppes/files/2021/11/Fine-Ben-Aharon-Armon-Seligman-Helpman-Bloch-Hendler-Sheppes-in-press-Psych-Medicine.pdf - Sternberg, N., Luria, R., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Mental Logout: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Regulating Temptations to Use Social Media. Psychological Science, 32, 1527-1536.
https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/galsheppes/files/2021/10/Sternberg-Luria-Sheppes-2021-PS.pdf - Sheppes, G. (2020). Transcending the “Good & Bad” and “Here & Now” in Emotion Regulation: Costs and Benefits of Strategies across Regulatory Stages. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 60(4), 185-236.
https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/galsheppes/files/2019/12/Sheppes-in-press-Advances-in-Experimental-Social-Psychology-proofs.pdf - Sternberg, N., Luria, R., Chandhok, S., Vickers, B., Kross, E., & Sheppes, G. (2020). When facebook and finals collide-procrastinatory social media usage predicts enhanced anxiety. Computers in Human Behavior, 109, 106358.
https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/galsheppes/files/2020/08/Computers-in-Human-Behavior.pdf - Shafir, R., & Sheppes, G. (2018). When knowledge is (not) power- the influence of anticipatory information on subsequent emotion regulation: Neural and behavioral evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(8), 1225-1240.
https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/galsheppes/files/2018/08/Shafir-R.-Sheppes-G.-2018.-When-knowledge-is-not-power-the-influence-of-anticipatory-information-on-subsequent-emotion-regulation-Neural-and-behavioral-evidence.-1.pdf
