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 Dr. Idit Shalev
Post Doctorate Associate, YIISA Dr. Idit Shalev received her BA (magna cum laude) in psychology and special education, Tel Aviv University, Israel; a MA (magna cum laude) in counseling psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel; a PhD (magna cum laude, 2004) in research of emotions, Haifa University, Israel; and a PhD (magna cum laude, 2007), in clinical psychology, Haifa University, Israel. She worked as a therapist and a supervisor at the Child Study Center at Schneider Children’s hospital of Israel. She taught at Tel Aviv University and in a school for psychotherapy, Israel. Idit Shalev was a fellow in social psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland; and in clinical psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida. Her research draws from both clinical and experimental social psychology perspectives, to understand the relations between motivational mechanisms and functioning, and to develop evidence-based interventions accordingly. Her studies demonstrated the effect of chronic, contextual and unconscious motivations on personality organization, emotional functioning, impulsivity-compulsivity symptoms, and adherence to the medical regimen. Her current interests are in (1) motivational mechanisms underlying terrorists' ideology and behavior, and (2) mass interventions in the context of radical Islam. |
