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Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

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Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
5792
World Ranking
10443
National Ranking
132

Overview

Yaniv Kanat-Maymon is affiliated with Reichman University in Israel and conducts research primarily in the field of psychology. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, gender studies, developmental and educational psychology, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics: child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, motivation and self-concept in sports, attachment and relationship dynamics, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, behavioral health and interventions, and gender diversity and inequality.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Work motivations as antecedents and outcomes of leadership: Integrating self-determination theory and the full range leadership theory (2020), published in European Management Journal
  • The Benefits of Giving as well as Receiving Need Support in Human-Pet Relations (2020), published in Journal of Happiness Studies
  • From mothers to children and back: Bidirectional processes in the cross-generational transmission of anxiety from early childhood to early adolescence (2021), published in Depression and Anxiety
  • Internship Not Hardship: What Makes Interns in Startup Companies Satisfied? (2020), published in Journal of Experiential Education
  • Prenatal childbearing motivations, parenting styles, and child adjustment: A longitudinal study (2021), published in Journal of Family Psychology

Kanat-Maymon frequently publishes in venues such as Journal of Family Psychology, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Academy of Management Proceedings, European Management Journal, and Journal of Happiness Studies.

Collaborations appear regularly in their work, with frequent co-authors including Guy Roth, Avi Assor, Anat Moed, Abira Reizer, and Uzi Ben-Shalom.

Best Publications

  • Autonomous motivation for teaching: How self-determined teaching may lead to self-determined learning.

    Guy Roth;Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Haya Kaplan

  • Directly controlling teacher behaviors as predictors of poor motivation and engagement in girls and boys: The role of anger and anxiety

    Avi Assor;Haya Kaplan;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Guy Roth

  • Father's brain is sensitive to childcare experiences

    Eyal Abraham;Talma Hendler;Irit Shapira-Lichter;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

  • Parent-specific reciprocity from infancy to adolescence shapes children's social competence and dialogical skills.

    Ruth Feldman;Esther Bamberger;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

  • Effects of the Maytiv positive psychology school program on early adolescents' well-being, engagement, and achievement.

    Anat Shoshani;Sarit Steinmetz;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

  • Interest as a Motivational Resource: Feedback and Gender Matter, but Interest Makes the Difference

    Idit Katz;Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Yoella Bereby-Meyer

  • Prevention of school bullying: The important role of autonomy-supportive teaching and internalization of pro-social values

    Guy Roth;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Uri Bibi

  • Intimately connected: The importance of partner responsiveness for experiencing sexual desire.

    Gurit E. Birnbaum;Harry T. Reis;Moran Mizrahi;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

  • The role of basic need fulfillment in academic dishonesty: A self-determination theory perspective

    Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Michal Benjamin;Aviva Stavsky;Anat Shoshani

  • Parental Conditional Regard: Psychological Costs and Antecedents

    Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Guy Roth

  • Analysis of trauma exposure, symptomatology and functioning in Jewish Israeli and Palestinian adolescents

    Alean Al-Krenawi;John R. Graham;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

  • Cumulative Risk on the Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) Underpins Empathic Communication Difficulties at the First Stages of Romantic Love

    Inna Schneiderman;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Richard P. Ebstein;Ruth Feldman

  • Assessing the experience of autonomy in new cultures and contexts

    Guy Roth;Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Haya Kaplan

  • Mutual influences between partners’ hormones shape conflict dialog and relationship duration at the initiation of romantic love

    Inna Schneiderman;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Orna Zagoory-Sharon;Ruth Feldman

  • Work motivations as antecedents and outcomes of leadership: Integrating self-determination theory and the full range leadership theory

    Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Maor Elimelech;Guy Roth

  • Integration of negative emotional experience versus suppression: addressing the question of adaptive functioning.

    Guy Roth;Moti Benita;Chen Amrani;Bat-Hen Shachar

  • You should know me better: Parents' temperament-insensitivity has negative motivational effects on Bedouin and Jewish adolescents.

    Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat‐Maymon;Shoshi Keren‐Pariente;Idit Katz

  • Mother-child adrenocortical synchrony; Moderation by dyadic relational behavior.

    Maayan Pratt;Yael Apter-Levi;Adam Vakart;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon

  • Benefits of emotional integration and costs of emotional distancing.

    Guy Roth;Bat-Hen Shahar;Yael Zohar-Shefer;Moti Benita

  • Basic psychological need fulfillment in human–pet relationships and well-being

    Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Adee Antebi;Sigal Zilcha-Mano

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
Avi Assor
Avi Assor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Orna Zagoory-Sharon
Orna Zagoory-Sharon Reichman University
Zahava Solomon
Zahava Solomon Tel Aviv University
Gurit E. Birnbaum
Gurit E. Birnbaum Reichman University
Edward L. Deci
Edward L. Deci University of Rochester
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Harry T. Reis
Harry T. Reis University of Rochester
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

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