Prof. Zohar Ada

Faculty Clinical Psychology Program and Behaviora
Faculty of Social & Community Sciences
Prof. Zohar Ada

building 7, room 11

Teaching

  • Behavior Genetics
  • Research Seminar - Personality Psychopathology and Health Neurodevelopmental
  • Disorders Adult Onset
  • Psychopathology
  • Issue in Psychopathology

Research

  • Personality Psychopathology
  • Mental Pain
  • Eating Disorders
  • Heart Rate Variability Resilience and Health

Publications

Zohar, A.H., & Bruno, R. (1997), Normative and pathological obsessive compulsive behavior and ideation in childhood: A question of timing​. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 38(8),  993-999. 

Zohar, A.H., Felz, L. Ritualistic behavior in young children​. (2001). Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29,121-128. 

​Zohar, A.H., Goldman, E., Calamary, R., and Mashiah, M. (2005) Religiosity and obsessive-compulsive behavior in Israeli Jews. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 857-868.

Zohar, A.H., Giladi, L., & Givati, T., (2007). Holocaust exposure and disordered eating: A study of multi-generational transmission​. European Eating Disorders Review, 15(1), 50-57.

​Bachner-Melman, R., Zohar, A.H., (equal first authorship) Kremer, I., Ebstein, R.P. (2009). Psychological profiles of women with a past or present diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Mental Health, 4(2), 1-10.

Cloninger, C.R., & Zohar, A.H. (2011). Personality and the perception of health and happiness. Journal of Affective Disorders, 128, 24-32.]

Zohar, A.H., & Cloninger C.R. (2011). The psychometric properties of the TCI-140 in Hebrew. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 27, 73-80.

Zohar, A.H., Denollet, J.K., Lev Ari,L., & Cloninger, C.R. (2011). The Psychometric properties of the DS14 in Hebrew and the prevalence of Type D in Israeli adults​. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 27, 274-281.

Lev-Ari, L. & Zohar, A.H. (2013). Nothing gained: An explorative study of the long term effects of perceived maternal feeding practices on women's and men's adult BMI, body image dissatisfaction, and disordered eating. International Journal of Psychology.

Zohar, A.H., McCraty, R., & Cloninger, C.R. (2013). Personality and heart rate variability: Exploring pathways from personality to cardiac coherence and health. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 6, 32-40

Lev-Ari, L., Katz-Baumgarten, I. & Zohar, A.H. (2014). Mirror mirror on the wall: How women learn body dissatisfaction. Journal of Eating Behaviors, 15, 397-402.

Zohar A.H., & Dahan, D. (2016). Young children's ritualistic compulsive-like behavior and executive function: A cross sectional study. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 47(1), 13-22.

Zohar, A.H. (2016). Is Type-D Personality Trait(s) or State? An Examination of Type-D Temporal Stability in Older Adults in the Community. PeerJ epublication Febuary 9 2016.

Ablin, J.N., Zohar, A.H., Zaraya-Blum, R., & Buskila, D. (2016). Distinctive personality profiles of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients. PeerJ . PubMed 27672497

Zohar, A.H , Eilat, T., Amitai, M., Taler, M., Bari, R., Chen, A., Apter, A., Weizman, A., & Fennig, S. (2018). An exploratory study of adolescent response to fluoxetine using psychological and biological predictors. PeerJ.

Zohar, A.H., Zwir, I., Wang, J., Cloninger, C.R., & Anokhin, A. (2019). The development of temperament and character during adolescence: Gender differences in two phases of change​. Development and Psychopathology, 31(2), 601-617.

Gelfin, M., Zohar, A.H., Lev-Ari, L. (2018). A randomized control trial of a positive psychology intervention: Mediation of therapeutic gain by changes in personality​. International Journal of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 18(2) 193-205.

Zohar, A.H., Lev-Ari, L., & Bachner-Melman R. (2018). A model for the formation of maternal authority styles starting from attachment, and mediated by temperament and character. International Journal of Psychology and Behavior Analysis, 4 (145).

Yeshua, M., Zohar, A.H., & Berkovitz L. (2018). "Silence! The body is speaking" - A correlational study of personality, perfectionism, and self-compassion as risk and protective factors for psychosomatic symptoms distress. Psychology, Health & Medicine (Manuscript ID PHM-2018-04-0358.R1) 

Zohar A.H., Lev-Ari, L., & Bachner-Melman, R. (2019). Child and maternal correlates of picky eating in young children​. Psychology, 10, 1249-1261.