Are we willing to decrease synchronization to make things more interesting? 🆕#preprint: “Reducing #Synchronization to Increase Interest Improves Interpersonal Liking” with Inbal Ravreby & Yaara Yeshurun from Weizmann Institute & Sagol School of Neuroscience Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 🔗doi.org/10.1101/2021.0… 1/n

A new paper from our lab -- started from the finding that my 3 years old daughter can recognize that I'm smiling behind the mask :) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2022-… Nitzan Trainin Yaara Yeshurun

Now in press! our new findings suggest that during the COVID-19 pandemic, fear of infection mechanistically supplants social dispositions in guiding everyday social behavior. Exciting :) sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Ran Amram Yaara Yeshurun

When we feel “like-minded”, or in a way as one, is it only in our minds? In our new perspective paper in frontier for kids, we discuss this question: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Very excited to share our new preprint, part of my PhD research under the supervision of Roi Reichart (Technion), @HassonUri and Ariel Goldstein (Hasson Lab), and in collaboration with Yaara Yeshurun. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint led by Anne Mennen, with Sam Nastase @yeshurunyaara @hassonlab: Real-time neurofeedback to alter interpretations of a naturalistic narrative 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Is it all about synchronization? What about interest? Excited to share our new paper, “liking as a balance between synchronization, complexity and novelty”: nature.com/articles/s4159… By Yoel Shilat (Ziblat-Shay) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Yaara Yeshurun from Sagol School of Neuroscience, and myself from Weizmann Institute.

#AffectScience2022 Israel local meet up! Had a great time w/ Anat Perry @anatperry.bsky.social Yaara Yeshurun Society for Affective Science President Maya Tamir Noga Cohen 💔 HADAS OKON SINGER Shir Atzil Shir Genzer Inbal Ravreby Mokady Aviv Doron Atias Nur Kassem Argaman Bell Meir Galboiman & a few twitterless friends!

נועה שורק כתבה עלינו! כולנו נכנסים לחדר עם הנחות המוצא המושרשות בנו- איך אלו משפיעות על הפרשנות של העולם? האם קיימת מציאות אובייקטיבית? מוזמנים לשיח המדעי בנושא bac.org.il/blog/?postID=1…

Is there chemistry in social chemistry? When we click with someone and immediately become close friends? Thrilled to share our new Science Advances paper, “There is chemistry in social chemistry”: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Together with Kobi Snitz and Noam Sobel, Weizmann Institute

Our experiments in using real-time fMRI neurofeedback to alter the interpretation of an ambiguous, naturalistic narrative—a colossal amount of work by Anne Mennen with Norman Lab—now published in NeuroImage: Reports doi.org/10.1016/j.ynir…

הבדלים מוחיים בסיסיים בין הימין לשמאל-> שמחים לשתף את הסיקור של "הארץ" לממצאים החדשים שלנו, מרגיש רלוונטי יותר מתמיד. haaretz.co.il/magazine/2023-…

#JNeurosci: Noa Katabi Yaara Yeshurun et al Sagol School of Neuroscience Tel Aviv University MRI scanned left & right-wing participants while watching political campaign ads & speeches. The results uncover fundamental neural mechanisms underlying processes of political polarization. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

Do you find "Harry Potter" the best book ever? Do you have a friend that somehow doesn't? Ever wondered what is the difference in how your brains work when you listen to the same description of Harry and Hermione?  If so, check out our new paper! Taly Ohad sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Being on Twitter which is no longer even Twitter, has been driving me insane. I tried to explain why, why shouting about Israeli war crimes is not actually helpful to anyone, and what you might actually do instead.