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Ofra Mayseless

Ofra Mayseless

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Psychology

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43
Citations
8494
World Ranking
7218
National Ranking
67

Overview

Ofra Mayseless is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as clinical psychology, social psychology, health, sociology and political science, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their work include religion, spirituality, and psychology, urban green space and health, outdoor and experiential education, child therapy and development, Jewish identity and society, religion, society and development, as well as music therapy and health.

Their recent publications include:

  • Preparing youth for participatory civil society: A call for spiritual, communal, and pluralistic humanism in education with a focus on community of philosophical inquiry (2022, International Journal of Educational Research)

Ofra Mayseless frequently collaborates with several co-authors across their research projects. Notable co-authors include:

  • Lia Naor
  • Amir Freimann
  • Tobin Hart
  • Aostre N. Johnson
  • Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro

Their research has been published in various academic venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Experiential Education
  • Psychotherapy
  • International Journal of Educational Research
  • Ecopsychology

Best Publications

  • Attachment security and adjustment to school in middle childhood.

    David Granot;Ofra Mayseless

  • Classic and current social comparison research: Expanding the perspective.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Ofra Mayseless

  • Transformational leadership and attachment.

    Micha Popper;Ofra Mayseless;Omri Castelnovo

  • Back to basics: applying a parenting perspective to transformational leadership

    Micha Popper;Ofra Mayseless

  • Stability and Discriminant Validity of the Adult Attachment Interview: A Psychometric Study in Young Israeli Adults

    Abraham Sagi;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Miri Scharf;Nina Koren-Karie

  • What Makes You So Sure? Effects of Epistemic Motivations on judgmental Confidence

    Ofra Mayseless;Arie W Kruglanski

  • What Does It Mean to Be an Adult? The Israeli Experience

    Ofra Mayseless;Miri Scharf

  • Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Developmental Tasks in Emerging Adulthood.

    Miri Scharf;Ofra Mayseless;Inbal Kivenson-Baron

  • Sleeping out-of-home in a kibbutz communal arrangement: It makes a difference for infant-mother attachment

    Abraham Sagi;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Ora Aviezer;Frank Donnell

  • Love as a Battlefield: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics in Couples Identified for Male Partner Violence

    Colleen J. Allison;Kim Bartholomew;Ofra Mayseless;Donald G. Dutton

  • Adult Attachment Patterns and Courtship Violence

    Ofra Mayseless

  • Why are they lonely? Perceived quality of early relationships with parents, attachment, personality predispositions and loneliness in first-year university students

    Hadas Wiseman;Ofra Mayseless;Ruth Sharabany

  • The Quality of Mentoring Relationships and Mentoring Success

    Limor Goldner;Ofra Mayseless

  • The building blocks of leader development: A psychological conceptual framework

    Micha Popper;Ofra Mayseless

  • Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Their Capacity for Intimacy in Close Relationships.

    Ofra Mayseless;Miri Scharf

  • Adolescents' Relationships with Father, Mother, and Same-Gender Friend

    Ofra Mayseless;Hadas Wiseman;Ilan Hai

  • Contextual Effects in Hypothesis Testing: The Role of Competing Alternatives and Epistemic Motivations

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Ofra Mayseless

  • Motivational effects in the social comparison of opinions.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Ofra Mayseless

  • The capacity for romantic intimacy: exploring the contribution of best friend and marital and parental relationships.

    Miri Scharf;Ofra Mayseless

  • Finding a Meaningful Life as a Developmental Task in Emerging Adulthood The Domains of Love and Work Across Cultures

    Ofra Mayseless;Einat Keren

Frequent Co-Authors

Miri Scharf
Miri Scharf University of Haifa
Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Kim Bartholomew
Kim Bartholomew Simon Fraser University
Abraham Sagi
Abraham Sagi University of Haifa
Marlene M. Moretti
Marlene M. Moretti Simon Fraser University
Donald G. Dutton
Donald G. Dutton University of British Columbia
Charlan Nemeth
Charlan Nemeth University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey W. Sherman
Jeffrey W. Sherman University of California, Davis

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