ד"ר שמרית דכס
קורות חיים
2018-present: Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan.
2015-2018: Post-Doctoral associate, The Childhood Depression Research Project. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2007-2014: PhD, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, School of Education, Divisionof Child Clinical and School Psychology.
2004-2007: MA, (Magna cum Laude) Hebrew University, Jerusalem, School of Education, Division of Child Clinical and School Psychology.
2001-2004: BA, (Magna cum Laude) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Behavioral Science.
פירסומים
Recently published papers:
Daches, S., Seidman, A. J., Bylsma, L. M., George, C. J., Kiss, E., Kapornai, K., ... & Kovacs, M. (2025). Successful mood repair in the laboratory predicts successful mood repair in daily life for typical but not for depression-prone young adults. Emotion.
Richter, T., Shani, R., Tal, S., Derakshan, N., Cohen, N., Daches, S., ... & Okon-Singer, H. (2025). Machine learning meta-analysis identifies individual characteristics moderating cognitive intervention efficacy for anxiety and depression symptoms. npj Digital Medicine, 8(1), 65.
Benaroya-Milshtein, N., Cohen Ben-Simon, O., Natanzon, T., Avishai-Neumann, M., Moka, A., Tsuk-Ram, N., ... & Daches, S. (2024). Caring for a child with cancer: Parental competence, distress, and cortisol levels. Journal of Health Psychology, 135-146.
Vardi, N., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Daches, S. (2024). Unpacking affect maintenance and its association with depressive symptoms: integrating positive and negative affects. Cognition and Emotion, 38(6), 947-953.
Babor, A., & Daches, S. (2023). Attribution style and well-being among LGB: Mediation by concealment and moderation by length of time out. Current Psychology, 1-9.
Westbrook, A., Yang, X., Bylsma, L. M., Daches, S., George, C. J., Seidman, A. J., ... & Kovacs, M. (2023). Economic choice and heart rate fractal scaling indicate that cognitive effort is reduced by depression and boosted by sad mood. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8(7), 687-694.
Cohen Ben Simon, O., Ron, L., & Daches, S. (2022). Successful implementation of cognitive reappraisal: effects of habit and situational factors. Cognition and Emotion, 36(8), 1605-1612.
For full list of publications see google scholar
תחומי מחקר
My research suggests that there are important behavioral, cognitive, and physiological processes that underlie maladaptive emotion regulation related to risk for affective disorders: 1) Behaviorally, individuals at risk for depression show difficulty sustaining the positive outcomes of emotion regulation, and they fall back to feelings of sadness. 2) Cognitively, individuals who tend to ruminate in response to distress show difficulty inhibiting negative and self-relevant information and those who are trained in inhibition subsequently report less rumination and improved cognitive abilities. 3) Physiologically, individuals at risk for depression who experience more negative life events show less parasympathetic flexibility in response to distress. Furthermore, increased reactivity to distress among those individuals predicts worse emotional outcomes.
I am interested in the mechanisms that underlie depression as well as developing interventions for individuals at risk. In my lab, we examine the beneficial effects of a novel training on physiological measures and also on regulation reported in daily life. Combining laboratory and Ecological Momentary Assessment approaches will inform about the generalizability of lab-based findings.
My work also raises important questions about how emotion regulation changes over distinct developmental periods and the cognitive and physiological changes that assist this change. Because rates of depressive disorders increase dramatically in adolescence, I see adolescence as an important developmental stage during which to examine risk factors for the development of affective disorders.
אמצעי התקשורת
קרנות מחקר
Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
Israel Cancer Association (ICA)
תאריך עדכון אחרון : 11/03/2025
