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Overview

Gal Sheppes is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of psychology, with a significant number of publications in the field. The main areas of study include clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their work spans multiple topics, notably child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, the impact of technology on adolescents, behavioral health and interventions, mental health research topics, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

In terms of research output, Gal Sheppes has contributed to a range of recent papers, highlighting collaborations with several coauthors. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps (2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • Identifying the determinants of emotion regulation choice: a systematic review with meta-analysis (2021, Cognition & Emotion)
  • The neural bases of cognitive emotion regulation: The roles of strategy and intensity (2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • Steady-state visual evoked potentials differentiate between internally and externally directed attention (2022, NeuroImage)
  • When facebook and finals collide - procrastinatory social media usage predicts enhanced anxiety (2020, Computers in Human Behavior)

Frequent coauthors in their work include Roni Shafir, Roy Luria, Naomi B. Fine, Ethan Kross, and Talma Hendler.

Gal Sheppes' publications appear regularly in academic venues such as Emotion, Cognition & Emotion, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, and NeuroImage, with the highest number of publications in Emotion and Cognition & Emotion.

Best Publications

  • Emotion regulation and psychopathology.

    Gal Sheppes;Gaurav Suri;James J. Gross

  • Emotion-Regulation Choice

    Gal Sheppes;Susanne Scheibe;Gaurav Suri;James J. Gross

  • Emotion Regulation Flexibility

    Amelia Aldao;Gal Sheppes;James J. Gross

  • Emotion regulation choice: A conceptual framework and supporting evidence.

    Gal Sheppes;Susanne Scheibe;Gaurav Suri;Peter Radu

  • Sleep and emotions: bidirectional links and underlying mechanisms.

    Michal Kahn;Gal Sheppes;Avi Sadeh

  • Is Timing Everything? Temporal Considerations in Emotion Regulation

    Gal Sheppes;James J. Gross

  • The temporal dynamics of emotion regulation: an EEG study of distraction and reappraisal

    Ravi Thiruchselvam;Jens Blechert;Gal Sheppes;Anders Rydstrom

  • Better Late Than Never? On the Dynamics of Online Regulation of Sadness Using Distraction and Cognitive Reappraisal

    Gal Sheppes;Nachshon Meiran

  • Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps

    Ethan Kross;Philippe Verduyn;Gal Sheppes;Cory K. Costello

  • Divergent cognitive costs for online forms of reappraisal and distraction.

    Gal Sheppes;Nachshon Meiran

  • Cognition and Emotion Lecture at the 2010 SPSP Emotion Preconference

    James J. Gross;Gal Sheppes;Heather L. Urry

  • Reappraisal (but not distraction) is going to make you sweat: physiological evidence for self-control effort.

    Gal Sheppes;Erez Catran;Nachshon Meiran

  • Emotional Intensity Influences Pre-implementation and Implementation of Distraction and Reappraisal

    Roni Shafir;Naama Schwartz;Jens Blechert;Gal Sheppes

  • The Self-Regulation of Emotion

    Sander L. Koole;Lotte F. van Dillen;Gal Sheppes

  • Distract or reappraise? Age-related differences in emotion-regulation choice.

    Susanne Scheibe;Gal Sheppes;Ursula M. Staudinger

  • Emotion regulatory flexibility sheds light on the elusive relationship between repeated traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

    Einat Levy-Gigi;George A. Bonanno;Alla R. Shapiro;Gal Richter-Levin

  • See What You Think Reappraisal Modulates Behavioral and Neural Responses to Social Stimuli

    Jens Blechert;Gal Sheppes;Carolina Di Tella;Hants Williams

  • Emotion regulation choice: selecting between cognitive regulation strategies to control emotion.

    Gal Sheppes;Ziv Levin

  • Emotion Regulation Effectiveness: What Works When

    Gal Sheppes;James J. Gross

  • Emotion regulation choice: the role of environmental affordances.

    Gaurav Suri;Gal Sheppes;Gerald Young;Damon Abraham

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Nachshon Meiran
Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Jens Blechert
Jens Blechert University of Salzburg
Eran Halperin
Eran Halperin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Golan Shahar
Golan Shahar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Daniel Bar-Tal
Daniel Bar-Tal Tel Aviv University
Susanne Scheibe
Susanne Scheibe University of Groningen
Thomas L. Webb
Thomas L. Webb University of Sheffield
Ethan Kross
Ethan Kross University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maya Tamir
Maya Tamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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