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Salomon Israel is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Psychology, Social Sciences, and Medicine.

Their work covers several subfields within these disciplines, including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Sociology and Political Science.

Israel's research addresses various main topics, such as Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Health disparities and outcomes, Birth, Development, and Health, and the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

The scientist has published papers in a range of notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Israel include:

  • "Help! I Need Somebody": Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Little evidence for associations between the Big Five personality traits and variability in brain gray or white matter, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Sex bias in pain management decisions, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physicians prescribe fewer analgesics during night shifts than day shifts, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Investigating the impact of early-life adversity on physiological, immune, and gene expression responses to acute stress: A pilot feasibility study, 2020, PLoS ONE

Israel frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Yechiel Friedlander
  • Hagit Hochner
  • Boaz R. Cherki
  • Reut Avinun
  • Ilona Shapiro

Best Publications

  • The p Factor: One General Psychopathology Factor in the Structure of Psychiatric Disorders?

    Avshalom Caspi;Renate M. Houts;Daniel W. Belsky;Sidra J. Goldman-Mellor

  • Quantification of biological aging in young adults.

    Daniel W. Belsky;Avshalom Caspi;Renate Houts;Harvey J. Cohen

  • Genetics of Human Social Behavior

    Richard P. Ebstein;Richard P. Ebstein;Richard P. Ebstein;Salomon Israel;Soo Hong Chew;Soo Hong Chew;Songfa Zhong;Songfa Zhong

  • The Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Contributes to Prosocial Fund Allocations in the Dictator Game and the Social Value Orientations Task

    Salomon Israel;Elad Lerer;Idan Shalev;Florina Uzefovsky

  • Heritability of children's prosocial behavior and differential susceptibility to parenting by variation in the dopamine receptor D4 gene

    Ariel Knafo;Salomon Israel;Richard P. Ebstein

  • Arginine vasopressin and oxytocin modulate human social behavior.

    Richard P. Ebstein;Richard P. Ebstein;Salomon Israel;Elad Lerer;Florina Uzefovsky

  • BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with HPA axis reactivity to psychological stress characterized by genotype and gender interactions.

    Idan Shalev;Elad Lerer;Salomon Israel;Florina Uzefovsky

  • Internalizing disorders and leukocyte telomere erosion: a prospective study of depression, generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder

    Idan Shalev;Terrie E. Moffitt;Antony W. Braithwaite;Andrea Danese

  • Intranasal oxytocin modulates EEG mu/alpha and beta rhythms during perception of biological motion.

    Anat Perry;Shlomo Bentin;Idan Shalev;Salomon Israel

  • Oxytocin receptor and vasopressin receptor 1a genes are respectively associated with emotional and cognitive empathy.

    F. Uzefovsky;F. Uzefovsky;I. Shalev;S. Israel;S. Edelman

  • Molecular genetic studies of the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor (AVPR1a) and the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) in human behaviour: from autism to altruism with some notes in between.

    Salomon Israel;Elad Lerer;Idan Shalev;Florina Uzefovsky

  • Oxytocin, but not Vasopressin, Increases both Parochial and Universal Altruism

    Salomon Israel;Ori Weisel;Richard P. Ebstein;Gary Bornstein

  • Translating Personality Psychology to Help Personalize Preventive Medicine for Young Adult Patients

    Salomon Israel;Terrie E. Moffitt;Daniel W. Belsky;Robert J. Hancox

  • The Heritability of Attitude Toward Economic Risk

    Songfa Zhong;Soo Hong Chew;Eric Set;Junsen Zhang

  • The prosocial personality and its facets: genetic and environmental architecture of mother-reported behavior of 7-year-old twins

    Ariel Knafo-Noam;Florina Uzefovsky;Salomon Israel;Maayan Davidov

  • Low CD38 expression in lymphoblastoid cells and haplotypes are both associated with autism in a family-based study

    Elad Lerer;Shlomit Levi;Salomon Israel;Maya Yaari

  • AVPR1A variant associated with preschoolers' lower altruistic behavior.

    Reut Avinun;Salomon Israel;Idan Shalev;Inga Gritsenko

  • A neurochemical approach to valuation sensitivity over gains and losses

    Songfa Zhong;Salomon Israel;Salomon Israel;Hong Xue;Pak C. Sham

  • "Help! I Need Somebody": Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis

    Roni Granot;Daniel H. Spitz;Boaz R. Cherki;Psyche Loui

  • Vasopressin selectively impairs emotion recognition in men.

    Florina Uzefovsky;Idan Shalev;Salomon Israel;Ariel Knafo

  • Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) associated with attitude towards longshot risks.

    Songfa Zhong;Salomon Israel;Hong Xue;Richard P. Ebstein;Richard P. Ebstein

  • All-trans retinoic acid upregulates reduced CD38 transcription in lymphoblastoid cell lines from Autism spectrum disorder.

    Mathias Riebold;David Mankuta;Elad Lerer;Salomon Israel

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Ariel Knafo
Ariel Knafo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Renate Houts
Renate Houts Duke University
Nurit Yirmiya
Nurit Yirmiya Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Espen Røysamb
Espen Røysamb University of Oslo
Andrea Danese
Andrea Danese King's College London
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University

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