פרופ' עמית שרירא

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amit.shrira@biu.ac.il
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AMIT SHRIRA, Ph.D.

 

A. Contact Details

E-mail: amit.shrira@biu.ac.il

Office number: 972-3-7384775

 

B. Education

2011-2012: Post-doctoral fellow, the Israel Gerontological Data Center, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.Supervisor: Prof. Howard Litwin

2005-2010: PhD, Tel Aviv University (Psychology).

Dissertation title: "Trauma in the life story: Holocaust-related expressions and time perspective as regulators of long-term traumatic effects on emotional experience." Supervisor: Prof. Dov Shmotkin.

2003-2005: MA, Tel Aviv University (Clinical Psychology).

1999-2003: BA, University of Haifa (Psychology and History of Art).

 

C. Academic Positions and Activities

2019-: Full professor, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.

2015-2018: Associate professor, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.

2012-2015: Senior lecturer, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.

2009-2011: Research Director, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2008-2013: Instructor of research seminars, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University.

2008-2012: Teaching associate, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

 

D. Scholarships and Awards

2015: Early Career Award, Stress and Anxiety Research Society.

2010: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for PhD students. Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2009: The Bergman Award for PhD dissertation by the Herczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv University.

2009: Grant given by Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute of Gerontology and Human Development and ESHEL - the Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel.

2008: The Marmot Grant. Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2007: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for PhD students. The grant was named in the honor of Dr. Bar-Lev Moshe - Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2006: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for PhD students. The grant was named in the honor of Hermalin Yaankovska - Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2005: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for graduate students. The grant was named in the honor of Dr. Bar-Lev Moshe and Green Irving - Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2000: Outstanding Excellence grant for BA students - Department of Art Studies, University of Haifa.

 

E. Research Grants

  1. 2026 — August. Research funded by the Sadot Institute, Sapir Academic College: “Well-being and narrative identity among Holocaust survivors following the October 7 massacre and the Swords of Iron War: A qualitative study.” Award recipient: G. Spector-Mersel. Research collaborators: A. Shrira, L. Ben-Ezra, and Y. Cohen. Duration: one year. Total funding: ILS 50,000.

  2. 2026 — May. Research funded by the Sadot Institute, Sapir Academic College: “Well-being and narrative identity in the shadow of cumulative trauma: Life stories of Holocaust survivors following the October 7 massacre and the subsequent wars.” Award recipient: G. Spector-Mersel. Duration: one year. Total funding: ILS 75,378.

  3. 2025 — Principal investigator. Project funded by the Minerva Stiftung: “Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging (MCIA).” Other PIs: T. Band-Winterstein, Z. Eisikovits, I. Doron, Y. Bachner, B. Tadmor, and A. Tur-Sinai. Duration: six years. Total funding: ILS 3,535,323.

  4. 2025 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): “The role of subjective views of aging in the nexus of posttraumatic reactions and physical health among older adults: A mixed-method cross-generational framework.” Other PIs: D. Segel-Karpas, Y. Hoffman, and G. Spector-Mersel. Duration: four years. Total funding: ILS 780,000.

  5. 2024 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging: “Vulnerability and resilience among older adults of immigrant and ethnic minorities during the 2023 Israel-Hamas War: The role of discrimination.” Other PIs: L. Greenblatt-Kimron, Y. Palgi, and Y. Hoffman. Total funding: ILS 12,100.

  6. 2024 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs: “Coping of older adults during the Israel-Hamas War.” Other PIs: Y. Hoffman, Y. Palgi, and M. Bensimon. Total funding: ILS 48,500.

  7. 2023 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): “Subjective views of aging and health in the social environment.” Other PIs: Y. Hoffman and E. Bodner. Total funding: ILS 70,000.

  8. 2023 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging: “Financial exploitation and mental health among Holocaust survivors: A mixed-method design.” Other PIs: G. Weissberger and M. Bensimon. Total funding: ILS 14,200.

  9. 2020 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): “The effects of older adult patients’ views of aging and departmental ageism on post-hospitalization health.” Other PIs: Y. Hoffman and E. Bodner. Duration: three years. Total funding: ILS 417,000.

  10. 2019 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Space (MOST): “What does not kill me makes me stronger? Strength and vulnerability among Holocaust survivors and their offspring.” Other PIs: M. Scharf and Y. Palgi. Duration: three years. Total funding: ILS 300,000.

  11. 2018 — Principal investigator. Research workshop funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): “Age-related and death-related perceptions and their relationship to health.” Other PIs: Y. Palgi, G. Kavé, and D. Shmotkin. Total funding: ILS 70,000.

  12. 2016 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Space (MOST): “Subjective age and subjective nearness to death: Their utility in predicting rehabilitation after stroke and osteoporotic fractures.” Other PIs: E. Bodner, Y. Palgi, and O. Zaslavsky. Duration: three years. Total funding: ILS 375,000.

  13. 2015 — Principal investigator. Research funded by a special grant from the Rector of Bar-Ilan University: “Aging successfully in the shadow of intergenerational transmission of trauma: An interdisciplinary perspective.” Other co-investigators: L. Ayalon, M. Bensimon, E. Bodner, T. Rosenbloom, and G. Yadid. Duration: one year. Total funding: ILS 30,000.

  14. 2014 — Principal investigator. Research funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): “Subjective age and subjective closeness to death: Can self-evaluations predict functional decline, what moderates this prediction, and what factors affect the evaluation?” Other PIs: Y. Palgi, G. Kavé, and D. Shmotkin. Duration: three years. Total funding: ILS 252,000.

  15. 2011 — Co-investigator. Research funded by the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Retirees Affairs: “Can happiness regulate late-life physical health and mortality risk under concrete realizations of the hostile-world scenario?” PI: D. Shmotkin. Duration: two years. Total funding: ILS 100,000.

F. Editorial Postions & Ad Hoc Reviewer

2018-: Editorial board, Frontiers in Psyciatry

2019-: Editorial board, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 

2019-20: Guest editor, Journals of Gerontology: PS

2020-: Editorial board, GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry

2020-: Associate editor, BMC Psychiatry 

2020-: Editorial board, Death Studies 

2022-: Deputy editor, Stress and Health 

 

 

 

 

 

 

מחקר

1) העברה בין-דורית של טראומה

2) טראומה וזיקנה

3) תפיסות סובייקטיביות של הזדקנות

קורסים

פסיכופתולוגיה של הזיקנה

פסיכולוגיה של המבוגר

העברה בין-דורית של טראומה – סמינריון

פגיעות ועמידות במחצית השנייה של החיים 

 

 

פרסומים
Selected Publications

  1. Mansour, A., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2026). The respective roles of negative and positive views of aging in predicting rehabilitation outcomes. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(11), Article gbag171. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag171

  2. Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Shaia, Y., & Palgi, Y. (2026). Daily ageism and negative affect as a function of older adults’ sexual orientation. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 73(5), 663–672. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000892

  3. Bensimon, M., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Hoffman, Y. (2026). Later-life coping in wartime captivity: A qualitative study of older civilian hostage returnees. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(10), Article gbag146. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag146

  4. Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Shaia, Y., Poritzky Doga, A., & Palgi, Y. (2026). Daily loneliness and subjective well-being as a function of older adults’ sexual orientation. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(9), Article gbag131. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag131

  5. Palgi, Y., Greenblatt-Kimron, L., & Shrira, A. (2026). Understanding heterogeneity in late-life post-traumatic reactions. Nature Reviews Psychology, 5(8), 560–571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-026-00586-7

  6. Tingvold, M., Neupert, S. D., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Kornadt, A. E. (2026). Daily health problems, views of aging, and the moderating role of awareness of age-related changes. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(5), Article gbag018. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag018

  7. Kornadt, A. E., Wirth, M., Neupert, S. D., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Niepel, C. (2026). The dynamic interplay of daily uplifts and stressors with subjective age. Psychology and Aging, 41(2), 161–175. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000914

  8. Gazit, T., Bergman, Y. S., Hoffman, Y., Weissberger, G., & Shrira, A. (2026). The effect of positive and negative daily social media emotional experiences on older adults’ subjective age: Unveiling the negativity bias in WhatsApp groups. New Media & Society, 28(3), 929–950. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241312525

  9. Avidor, S., Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Cohn-Schwartz, E., Palgi, Y., & Greenblatt-Kimron, L. (2026). Views of aging and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among older adult war veterans in the context of renewed war. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(2), Article gbaf226. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf226

  10. Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2025). Family over-involvement mediates PTSD symptoms in Holocaust descendants following the October 7 attack: A prospective study. Family Process, 64(4), Article e70089. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70089

  11. Palgi, Y., Greenblatt-Kimron, L., & Shrira, A. (2025). Fifty years later: How ego integrity and despair affect psychological reactions of older adult war veterans to the Israel-Hamas war. Journal of Affective Disorders, 381, 16–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.03.165

  12. Shrira, A., Greenblatt-Kimron, L., & Palgi, Y. (2025). Intergenerational effects of the Holocaust following the October 7 attack in Israel. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 181, 298–303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.11.067

  13. Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Kornadt, A. E., Neupert, S. D., Tse, D. C. K., Can, R., & Palgi, Y. (2024). Cultural differences in daily coupling of subjective views of aging and negative affect. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 79(9), Article gbae124. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae124

  14. Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Palgi, Y. (2024). Holocaust centrality, anxiety, and other risk factors associated with terror threat salience among descendants of Holocaust survivors. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 106, Article 102908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102908

  15. Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2024). Age differences in acute stress and PTSD symptoms during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war: Preliminary findings. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 173, 111–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.03.003

  16. Cohn-Schwartz, E., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2024). Reciprocal associations of posttraumatic stress symptoms and cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults: The mediating role of depression. International Psychogeriatrics, 36(2), 119–129. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1041610222000357

  17. Kalir, D. M., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Batz, C., Ben-Eliezer, A., Heyman, N., Lieberman, D., Seleznev, I., Shugaev, I., Zaslavsky, O., Zikrin, E., & Bodner, E. (2023). Feeling younger, rehabilitating better: Reciprocal and mediating effects between subjective age and functional independence in osteoporotic fracture and stroke patients. Gerontology, 69(1), 109–117. https://doi.org/10.1159/000524885

  18. Cohn-Schwartz, E., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2022). The effect of pre-pandemic PTSD and depression symptoms on mental distress among older adults during COVID-19. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 151, 633–637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.05.022

  19. Petashnick, J. R., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., Palgi, Y., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2022). Subjective age and late-life functional status: Mediating and moderating effects. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 77(1), 61–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab181

  20. Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Shrira, A., Rubinstein, T., & Palgi, Y. (2021). Event centrality and secondary traumatization among Holocaust survivors' offspring and grandchildren: A three-generation study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 81, Article 102401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102401

  21. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., & Bergman, Y. S. (2021). Day-to-day variability in subjective age and ageist attitudes and their association with depressive symptoms. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(5), 836–844. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa125

  22. Maytles, R., Frenkel-Yosef, M., & Shrira, A. (2021). Psychological reactions of Holocaust survivors with low and high PTSD symptom levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 697–699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.01.007

  23. Grossman, E. S., Hoffman, Y. S. G., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2021). COVID-19 related loneliness and sleep problems in older adults: Worries and resilience as potential moderators. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, Article 110371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110371

  24. Shrira, A., Maytles, R., & Frenkel-Yosef, M. (2020). Suffering from infectious diseases during the Holocaust relates to amplified psychological reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 130, 421–423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.08.024

  25. Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2020). COVID-19-related loneliness and psychiatric symptoms among older adults: The buffering role of subjective age. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(11), 1200–1204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.018

  26. Bergman, Y. S., Cohen-Fridel, S., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2020). COVID-19 health worries and anxiety symptoms among older adults: The moderating role of ageism. International Psychogeriatrics, 32(11), 1371–1375. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1041610220001258

  27. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ring, L., Bodner, E., Avidor, S., Bergman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Keisari, S., & Hoffman, Y. (2020). The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Affective Disorders, 275, 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.036

  28. Shrira, A., Segel-Karpas, D., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2020). Subjective age and emotion covariation: Findings from two daily experience studies. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 75(5), 991–1000. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby125

  29. Shrira, A. (2020). Parental Holocaust exposure, related PTSD symptoms and subjective aging across the generations. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 75(1), 30–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz012

  30. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Kavé, G., Rubinstein, T., & Shmotkin, D. (2019). Which factors do older adults consider when estimating the time left for them to live? The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 74(1), 69–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby048

  31. Hoffman, Y. S. G., Grossman, E. S., Shrira, A., Kedar, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Dinnayi, M., Koren, L., Bayan, R., Palgi, Y., & Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2018). Complex PTSD and its correlates amongst female Yazidi victims of sexual slavery living in post-ISIS camps. World Psychiatry, 17(1), 112–113. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20475

  32. Segel-Karpas, D., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2017). The reciprocal relationship between depression and physical morbidity: The role of subjective age. Health Psychology, 36(9), 848–851. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000542

  33. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Hoffman, Y., & Bodner, E. (2016). A youthful age identity mitigates the effect of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms on successful aging. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(2), 174–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2015.07.006

  34. Nimrod, G., & Shrira, A. (2016). The paradox of leisure in later life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 71(1), 106–111. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbu143

  35. Zaslavsky, O., Palgi, Y., Rillamas-Sun, E., LaCroix, A. Z., Schnall, E., Woods, N. F., Cochrane, B. B., Garcia, L., Hingle, M., Post, S., Seguin, R., Tindle, H., & Shrira, A. (2015). Dispositional optimism and terminal decline in global quality of life. Developmental Psychology, 51(6), 856–863. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000018

  36. Shrira, A., Zaslavsky, O., LaCroix, A. Z., Seguin, R., Post, S., Tindle, H., Hingle, M., Woods, N., Cochrane, B., Garcia, L., Schnall, E., Rillamas-Sun, E., & Palgi, Y. (2015). Global quality of life modifies terminal change in physical functioning among older adult women. Age and Ageing, 44(3), 520–524. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afu176

  37. Shrira, A., & Litwin, H. (2014). The effect of lifetime cumulative adversity and depressive symptoms on functional status. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 69(6), 953–965. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbu056

  38. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., Eyal, N., Blumstein, T., & Shorek, A. (2014). The prediction of subjective wellness among the old-old: Implications for the "fourth-age" conception. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 69(5), 719–729. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbt052

  39. Letzter-Pouw, S. E., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Palgi, Y. (2014). Trauma transmission through perceived parental burden among Holocaust survivors’ offspring and grandchildren. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 6(4), 420–429. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033741

  40. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2014). Age-related and death-related differences in emotional complexity. Psychology and Aging, 29(2), 284–296. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036302

  41. Carmel, S., Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2013). The will to live and death-related decline in life satisfaction. Psychology and Aging, 28(4), 1115–1123. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034649

  42. Bar-Tal, Y., Shrira, A., & Keinan, G. (2013). The effect of stress on cognitive structuring: A cognitive motivational model. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17(1), 87–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868312461309

  43. Kavé, G., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Spalter, T., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). Formal education level versus self-rated literacy as predictors of cognitive aging. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 67(6), 697–704. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbs031

  44. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2012). Mental health consequences of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster: Are the grandchildren of people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the drop of the atomic bomb more vulnerable? World Psychiatry, 11(2), 133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpsyc.2012.05.011

  45. Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Aviel, O., Dubiner, Y., Baruch, E., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2012). Mental health and disaster related attitudes among Japanese after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 46(5), 688–690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.01.028

  46. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2011). Transgenerational effects of trauma in midlife: Evidence for resilience and vulnerability in offspring of Holocaust survivors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 3(4), 394–402. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020608

  47. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2011). For better and for worse: The relationship between future expectations and functioning in the second half of life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 66B(2), 195–203. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbq103

  48. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). Do Holocaust survivors show increased vulnerability or resilience to post-Holocaust cumulative adversity? Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23(3), 367–375. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20524

  49. Ben-Ezra, M., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2010). The hidden face of Haiti's tragedy. Science, 327(5971), 1325. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.327.5971.1325-b

  50. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Shmotkin, D., & Kavé, G. (2010). Delineating terminal change in subjective well-being and subjective health: Brief report. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 65B(1), 61–64. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp095


 

תאריך עדכון אחרון : 15/10/2026