The Stress, Self & Health (STREALTH) Lab
​Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Lab Members
Golan Shahar, Ph.D
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Golan Shahar is a clinical-health psychologist and research psychopathologist.
Serving as Professor of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Golan is the founder of the stress, self & health (STREALTH) lab, a visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and the Editor of Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
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email: shaharg@post.bgu.ac.il​
Post-doctoral fellows:
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Sheera Lerman, Ph.D
​Sheera is a post doctoral fellow at the stress, self & health (STREALTH) lab in the department of psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She received her M.A in rehabilitative neuropsychology and Ph.D. in psychology at BGU under the supervision of Prof. Golan Shahar. Sheera is also doing her clinical internship in rehabilitation psychology at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.
Research Field: Psychological aspects of chronic pain, depression, catastrophzing, personality, coping with chronic illness, social support, cognitive impairment, Parkinson's disease, compliance with treatment.
Sheera's dissertation focused on the role of self-criticism as a vulnerability factor for distress and disability among chronic pain patients.
Email: sheera@bgu.ac.il
Julia Elad- Strenger, M.A
Julia is a doctoral student in Psychology at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev.
Research Field: The joint effects of ideological threat and self perception (self esteem, self-concept clarity and self complexity), on political radicalization and intergroup relations.
email: juliastrenger@gmail.com
Ph.D Students:
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Shai Itamar, M.A
Shai is a doctoral student in cognitive psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Research Field: Phenomenological-Narrative experience of the Heroic-Self (HERS), relationship between Narcissism and Heroism, intergraded view (Psychoanalytical, Existential and Cognitive) on Heroism.
email: itamsh@post.bgu.ac.il
Dana Lassri, M.A
Dana is a doctoral student in clincal psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dana is also doing her clinical internship at "Kaplan" medical hospital.
Research Field: Childhood sexual abuse, emotional maltreatment and neglect, personality, psyhopathology, romantic relationships, psychodynamic processes (i.e., representations of self and others along with personality traits), young adulthood, health psychology, structural Equation Modeling.
email: danalassri@gmail.com​
Gal Noyman, M.A
Gal is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Research Field: influence of personality on pain management and coping in chronic pain patients, doctor-patient relationship in chronic pain.
email: galchn22@gmail.com​
Tal Peleg-Sagy, M.A.
Tal is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and she is also a sexual therapist
Research field: interactions between personality and envinroment, gender, sexuality, female physicians.
email: neshikotal@hotmail.com​
Ofer Rahamim, M.A
Ofer is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Research Field: Automatic evaluation following personality schema activation (in collaboration with Prof. Nachshon Meiran).
email: oferrh@gmail.com
Moran Schiller, M.A
Moran is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Research Field: What scars the self and how: the effect of chronic and acute life events on internal experiences.
email: moranschiller@gmail.com
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Michal Tanzer, M.A
Michal is a doctoral student in clincal psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Michal is also doing her clinical internship at "Soroka" medical hospital.
Research Field: Emotional face perception, personality ,social support and neurocognitive aspects (in collaboration with Dr Galia Avidan).
email: tanzer@post.bgu.ac.il​
Liat Izahkey, M.A
Guina Cohen, M.A

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Hanita Reuven, M.A
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Izhak Gilat, Ph.D
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Liad Bareket Bojmel, Ph.D
- Emanuel Schattner, M.A
- Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Ph.D
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Orr Spivak, Ph.D
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Dana Tzur, Ph.D
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​Dafna Weinberg, Ph.D