Prof. Noga Cohen

Head of Laboratory: Emotion Lab

The Emotion Lab, directed by Noga Cohen, studies the ways in which emotion, attention and cognitive control shape human behavior and experience. We use a combination of behavioral, psychophysiological and brain imaging methods to understand adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation processes. We study basic emotion regulation mechanisms and design cognitive interventions with the aim to improve emotion regulation among healthy and clinical populations.

Research Interests

Emotional Regulation
Cognition-Emotion Interactions
Cognitive and Emotion Regulation Training
Psychophysiological Measures (Eye Tracking)
Neuroimaging (fMRI)
Individual Differences in Emotional Regulation
Emotional Support
Episodic Memory

Educational Background

2007 BSc., Psychology and Biology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2009 M.A, Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2013 Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2016 Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology
2018 Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York

Recent Publications

Levy, S., Cohen, N., & Weinbach, N. (2023). Negative and positive interpretations of emotionally neutral situations modulate the desire to eat personally craved foods. Appetite, 191, 107092.
De Smet, S., Cohen, N., & Vanderhasselt, M. A. (2023). Boosting affective control with bifrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): a proof-of-concept study in healthy individuals. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 169, 104401.
Nashashibi, L., Khouri, M., Meretyk, I., Livni, T., Cohen, N., & Fruchter, E. (2023). Working in corona-designated departments in a fortified underground hospital: Concerns about corona and predictors of job burnout. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1105632.
Massarwe, A., & Cohen, N. (2023). Understanding the benefits of extrinsic emotion regulation in depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1120653.
‏‏‏‏Keleynikov, M., Benatov, J., & Cohen, N. (2023). Emotion Regulation among Parents Raising a Child with Disability: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Model. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 32(3), 858-875.
‏Ben-Baruch, Y. D., Leibovich-Raveh, T., & Cohen, N. (2022). The link between emotion regulation and size estimation of spiders pictures among women with fear of spiders. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1053381.
‏Buchanan, E. M., Lewis, S. C., Paris, B., Forscher, P. S., Pavlacic, J. M., Beshears, J. E., … Cohen, N. & Vega, D. (2023). The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific data, 10(1), 87.
Arbel, R., Szpiro, S. F., Sagi, J., Khuri, M., Berkovits, L., & Cohen, N. (2022). Reappraising negative emotions reduces distress during the COVID-19 outbreak. Current Psychology, 1-10.
‏‏Hamerman, R., & Cohen, N. (2022). Emotion control training enhances reappraisal success among individuals with reported ADHD symptoms. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 14058.
Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A. J., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., …Cohen, N. & Pantazi, M. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective science, 3(3), 577-602.
Weinbach, N., Barzilay, G., & Cohen, N. (2022). Cognitive Reappraisal Reduces the Influence of Threat on Food Craving. Affective Science, 3(4), 818-826.
‏‏‏Legate, N., Nguyen, T. V., Weinstein, N., Moller, A., Legault, L., Vally, Z., … Cohen, N., & Ogbonnaya, C. E. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (22) e2111091119
Khouri, M., Lassri, D., & Cohen, N. (2022). Job burnout among Israeli healthcare workers during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: The role of emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress. PloS one, 17(3), e0265659.
Gil, M., Cohen, N., & Weinbach, N. (2022). The influence of inhibitory control on reappraisal and the experience of negative emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 36(2), 364-371.

Prof. Noga Cohen

Head of Laboratory: Emotion Lab

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