Prof. Yael Benyamini

Prof. Yael Benyamini is a health psychologist and a Professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at the Tel Aviv University. She attained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Biology and her Master‘s degree in Social Psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and her Ph.D. in Health and Social Psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is an elected Honorary Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society.

Prof. Benyamini studies how people think about their health. Her research focuses on subjective perceptions of health and illness as one gets older and their effects on coping with health threats and ultimately, on the psychological and physical outcomes. Her studies provide evidence for the intricate ways in which one’s subjective perceptions of health, age, and aging are interrelated. Particular contexts include cardiac disease, chronic pain, and women’s health issues (from childbirth through midlife and aging).