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Florina Uzefovsky
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research areas: Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
0000-0003-4571-2514
Employment
- 2016 - Present
Education
- 2008 - 2012
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem MA in clinical psychology2006 - 2008
- 2003 - 2006
Projects & Funding
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Developing empathy to boost honesty: A behavioral ethics approach Academy Sara van Dam project grant2018 - 2019
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The biological basis of early empathy development Israel Science Foundation2018 - 2023
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Equipment for establishing a lab to study the biological basis of empathy Israel Science Foundation2018 - 2021
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The role of puberty and sex-hormones in autism symptomology National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem2017 - 2019
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Childhood maltreatment effects on empathy development: the role of hormones Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben Gurion University2017 - 2018
Publications (35)
- Parental guilt and children’s internalizing and externalizing behavior: The moderating role of parental reflective functioning. Save
- Empathy and parenthood: The moderating role of maternal trait empathy on parental burnout Save
- Reexamining empathy in autism: Empathic disequilibrium as a novel predictor of autism diagnosis and autistic traits Save
- Medical symptoms and conditions in autistic women Save
- Empathic disequilibrium in two different measures of empathy predicts autism traits in neurotypical population Save
- Child maltreatment risk mediates the association between maternal and child empathy Save
- Touching the social robot PARO reduces pain perception and salivary oxytocin levels Save
- Young infants are pro‐victims, but it depends on the context Save
- Dataset for "Caring Babies: Concern for Others in Distress during Infancy" Save
- The oxytocin receptor gene predicts brain activity during an emotion recognition task in autism Save
- The oxytocin receptor gene predicts brain activity during an emotion recognition task in autism. Save
- Empathy development throughout the life span Save
- Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition Save
- Prevalence of sharing access credentials in electronic medical records Save
- Brief Report: The Go/No-Go Task Online: Inhibitory Control Deficits in Autism in a Large Sample Save
- Empathy as a driver of prosocial behaviour: Highly conserved neurobehavioural mechanisms across species Save
- Empathy development throughout the life span Save
- Values in Middle Childhood: Social and Genetic Contributions Save
- Gratitude and PTSD symptoms among Israeli youth exposed to missile attacks: examining the mediation of positive and negative affect and life satisfaction Save
- Oxytocin receptor and vasopressin receptor 1a genes are respectively associated with emotional and cognitive empathy Save