Self-Regulation & Emotion in
Education Laboratory

Moti Benita PhD
Director
Moti Benita is a lecturer in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a clinical psychologist, and he received his PhD in educational psychology from Ben-Gurion University.
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Yael Zaidman
Graduate Student
Yael is a PhD student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.
My PhD focuses on Parental promotion of emotion goals. Specifically, I'm interested in autonomy supportive and controlling parental practices while promoting emotion goals, and their effect on children's emotion regulation in a longitudinal research.

Inbar Katz Vago
Graduate Student
Inbar is a PhD student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.
Inbar is interested in how achievement goals are mapped onto daily personal goal pursuit. Specifically, she is interested in whether mastery and performance goals differentially predict progress in daily personal academic goals.

Hadar Azoulay Liberman
GRADUATE STUDENT
Hadar is a PhD student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.
Haadr will examine strategies for regulating emotions and their influence on pursuing goals. Specifically, Hadar is interested in comparing the effects of reappraisal and integrative emotion regulation (IER) on progress, worries, achievements, abandonment of goals, and goal fulfillment.

Shahar Nudler Muzikant
GRADUATE STUDENT
Shahar is a PhD student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.
Shahar is interested in emotional labor among novice teachers. Shahar is especially intrigued by the question of whether autonomous motivation vs. controlled motivation can buffer the positive and negative outcomes of emotional labor among novice teachers.

Revital Skuri
GRADUATE STUDENT
Revital is a PhD student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.
Revital's research focuses on teachers' emotion regulation. Specifically, she is interested in the relationships between teachers' emotion regulation styles and teacher-student relationships.
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Rotem Zorea
MA student
I am an MA student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.

Ifat Davida
MA student
I am an MA student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.

Nesreen Morad
MA student
I am an MA student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.

Inbal Haken
MA student
I am an MA student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.

Liron Peer
MA student
I am an MA student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.
Moran
MA student
I am an MA student in the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supervised by Dr. Moti Benita.

Yarin Waldman
Research assistant
I am a B.A. student in psychology and education in Ben-Gurion University.

Nitzan Beer
Research assistant
I am a B.A. student in psychology and education in Ben-Gurion University.

Or Meitar Zvulun
Research assistant
I am a B.A. student in psychology and education in Ben-Gurion University.

Noan Hod
Research assistant
I am a B.A. student in psychology and education in Ben-Gurion University.
Noa Nes
Research assistant
I am a B.A. student in psychology and education in Ben-Gurion University.
Maya Keisar Milrad
Research assistant
I am a B.A. student in psychology and education in Ben-Gurion University.
Omer Chen Gil
Research assistant
I am a B.A. student in psychology and education in Ben-Gurion University.
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Shira Polak
(2022)
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