מחקרים של חברי המרכז

 
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  2.  Russo-Netzer, P. & Bergman, Y.S. (2019). Prioritizing Patterns and Life Satisfaction among Ultra-Orthodox Jews: The Moderating Role of the Sense of Community. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 154, 233-248. DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2019.1704392
  3.  Russo-Netzer, P. & Icekson, T. (2020). Engaging with life: Synchronicity awareness as a pathway to personal growth. Current Psychology. DOI: 10.1007/s12144-019-00595-1
  4.  Abu-Raiya, H., Sasson, T. & Russo-Netzer, P. (in press). Presence of Meaning, Search for Meaning, Satisfaction with Life and Depressive Symptoms among a Diverse Israeli Sample. International Journal of Psychology.
  5.  Russo-Netzer, P. & Davidov, J. (2020). Transformative life experience as a glimpse to potentiality. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1-28. doi.org/10.1177/0022167820937487
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  7. Niemiec, R., Russo-Netzer, P. & Pargament, K.I. (2020). The decoding of the human spirit: A synergy of spirituality and character strengths toward wholeness. Frontiers in Psychology, 1-24. 
  8. Russo-Netzer, P., & Mayseless, O. (2021). Meaning in Life at the Crossroads of Personal Processes and Cultural Crisis. In. O. Mayseless & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds). Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post-Modern Israel (pp. 415-445). New York: Oxford University Press.
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  11. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Lavy, S., & Shanboor, K. (2020). Effects of a mindfulness intervention among arab teachers are mediated by decentering: A pilot study. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 542986.
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  14. Schweitzer, Y., Trautwein, F. M., Dor-Ziderman, Y., Nave, O., David, J., Fulder, S., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2024). Meditation-Induced Self-Boundary Flexibility and Prosociality: A MEG and Behavioral Measures Study. Brain Sciences, 14(12), 1181.
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  32. Klein, M., & Maimon, O. (2021). Fundamentals of soft logic. New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 17(03), 703-737.
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  38. Naor, L., & Mayseless, O. (2021). The therapeutic process in nature-based therapies from the perspectives of facilitators: A qualitative inquiry. Ecopsychology, 13(4), 284-293. [IF (2021 = 1.71]
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