People

Dr. Rotem Kahalon

Principal investigator

Email: rotem.kahalon@biu.ac.il

Google Scholar Profile

As a social psychologist, I’m interested in how subtle, often unnoticeable, social psychological mechanisms help maintain intergroup inequality, and how they contribute to disparities in health, mental health, and well-being.

More specifically, I focus on how different social factors, such as social norms and group stereotypes, affect peoples’ explicit and implicit perceptions, goals, and motivations and how these, in turn, affect their behaviors. This includes, for example, how societal beauty norms affect women’s and men’s health and mental health, how stereotypes about specific social groups (gender, racial, or ethnic stereotypes) affect medical decision making and behaviors towards patients who belong to these groups, and how gender stereotypes affect doctors’ career choices.

The lab is a place for people from different disciplines and backgrounds (e.g., psychologists, social workers, healthcare workers) who are interested in how psychology could be used to improve patients’ health and well-being.

Kim

Kim Sznajder

Ph.D Candidate

Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology with a keen focus on group stereotypes, gender behaviour and organisational environment, particularly exploring the socio-psychological processes affecting working women and the dynamics of intergroup equality. 
Khola

Khola Daher

Pre-doctoral student

Khola is an intern in medical psychology and a pre-doctoral student. She is studying the psychological, social, and environmental factors associated with Druze women’s breast screening behaviors.