Yair Ziv
February 2015
CURRICULUM VITAE- SHORT
Higher Education
A. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Period of
Name of Institution
Study
and Department
1989-1992
University of Haifa,
Degree
Year of Approval of
Degree
B.A.
1992
University of Haifa,
M.A. (cum laude)
1996
Psychology
Developmental
Psychology and
Honors Program
1993-1996
Psychology
1997-2000
University of Haifa,
Ph.D.
Psychology
Developmental
2001
Psychology
B. Post-Doctoral Studies
Period of
Name of
Degree
Year of Completion
Study
Institution,
University of
Post-Doctoral
2003
Maryland,
Training,
Psychology, Prof.
Developmental
Jude Cassidy
Psychology
Department and
Host
2000-2003
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Research Grants awarded
Role in
Co-Researchers
Topic
Funded by
Year
Attachment and social
University of
1999
information processing:
Haifa, Dean of
a seven-year follow up
Graduate
Research
Pre PhD
PI
Studies
(10,000 NIS)
At the University of Maryland
Co-
Jude Cassidy
Evaluator
Tamar’s Children:
Substance
incarcerated woman
Abuse and
and their infant
Mental Health
Role: Co-evaluator
Services
2002-2005
Administration
(SAMHSA)
At Westat
PI
The Social information
NIH/NICHD
processing interview –
($218,820)
2006-2008
preschool version
PD
Evaluation of the DC
CityBridge
(program
Preparatory and
Foundation
director)
KIPP:LEAP preschool
($195,939)
2008-2009
programs
PD
Carol
A Pilot Evaluation of
The Lourie
Andreassen
the Lourie Center
Center
Clinical Services
($100,000)
2008-2010
Program
PI
Priscilla Carver
Attachment-Related
NIH/NICHD
Social Information
($246,680)
Processing
At the University of Haifa
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2009-2011
*PI
Social Information
Marie Curie
Processing and
FP7-PEOPLE
Exposure to Political
(€100,000)
2010-2014
Violence: Relations to
Maladaptive Behavior
in Preschool Children
*Group
Debbie Golden
Organizer
*PI
Study group in
Faculty of
"Learning in early
Education
childhood"
(30,000 NIS)
Evaluation of the P-3
JFNA (Jewish
Parent education
Federation of
program
North America;
2012-2014
2012
$20,000)
*PI
Evaluation of the
JFNA (Jewish
Parents at the Center
Federation of
program
North America;
2013
$12,500)
*PI
Continuing evaluation
JFNA (Jewish
of the Parents at the
Federation of
Center program
North America;
2013-2014
$25,000)
*PI
Evaluation of the
Adventist Health 2013-2017
Lourie Center School
Care ($114,000)
and TNP
*PI
PI
Avi Sagi-
Evaluating the quality
Ministry of
Schwartz; Ora
of classroom quality in
Education
Aviezer;
preschool and
(Israel); 200,000
kindergarten
NIS
Evaluating MASHAV's
Early Childhood
Education Program in
Ghana
Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
(Israel); 90,000
NIS
Avi SagiSchwartz;
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2013-2014
2014-2015
PUBLICATIONS
Hebrew Publications
Ziv, Y., Golden, D., & Goldberg, T. (2014). The new Israeli ministry of education
initiative for holocaust studies in kindergarten: A multidisciplinary perspective.
Iyunim Bechinuch, 40, 497-508.
Ziv, Y., & Aviezer, O. (2014). Using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System
(CLASS) in Israeli Kindergarten for evaluating and shaping classroom climate.
Hed Hagan, 78 (3), 22-29.
Aviezer, O., & Ziv, Y. (2013). Evaluation and Assessment in Teacher Education
Programs: The Role of the Teacher-Child Interaction. Mofet Journal, 51, 49-54
(in Hebrew).
English Publications
Ziv, Y. & Hotam Y. (in press) Theory and measure in the psychological field: The
case of attachment theory and the strange situation procedure. Theory and
Psychology.
Ziv, Y., Golden, D., & Goldberg, T. (in press). Teaching traumatic historical events
in kindergarten: the case of holocaust studies in Israeli kindergartens. Early
Education and Development.
Hadad, B., & Ziv, Y. (in press). Strong bias towards analytic perception in ASD
does not come at the price of impaired global processing. Journal of Autism and
Developmental Disorders.
Ziv, Y., Hadad, B., Khateeb, Y., & Terkel-Dawer, R. (2014). Social information
processing in preschool children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 846-860.
Ziv, Y., Leibovitz, I., and Shechtman, T. (2013). Bullying and Victimization in Early
Adolescence: Relations to Social Information Processing Patterns Aggressive
Behavior, 39, 482-492.
Ziv, Y. (2013). Social Information Processing Patterns, Social Skills, and School
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Readiness in Preschool Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
114, 306-320.
Ziv, Y. (2012). Exposure to violence, social information processing, and problem
behavior in preschool children. Aggressive Behavior, 38, 429-441.
Ziv, Y., & Sorongon, A. (2011). Social information processing in preschool children:
Relations to sociodemographic risk and problem behavior. Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology, 109(4), 412-429.
Ziv, Y., Alva, S., & Zill, N. (2010). Understanding Head Start children problem
behaviors in the context of arrest or incarceration of a household member. Early
Childhood Research Quarterly. 25, 396-408.
Cassidy, J., Ziv, Y., Stupica, B., Sherman, L. J., Butler, H. M., Karfgin, A., Cooper, G.,
Hoffman, K., Powell, B. (2010). Enhancing attachment security in the infants of
women in a jail-diversion program. Attachment and Human Development, 12,
333-353.
Ziv, Y. (2009). An Evaluation of the DC Preparatory and KIPP:LEAP Preschool
Programs in the District of Columbia. Report Prepared for the CityBridge
Foundation. Rockville, MD: Westat.
Dykas, M., Ziv, Y., & Cassidy, J. (2008). Attachment and peer relations in adolescence.
Attachment and Human Development, 10, 123-141.
Ziv, Y. (2007). Social information processing in preschool children: Preliminary
evidence regarding a promising new measurement tool. In J. A. Zebrowski (Ed.).
New Research on Social Perception (pp.47-74). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science
Publishers, Inc.
Zill, N., & Ziv, Y. (2007). Toward A Global Indicator of Early Child Development.
New York, NY: UNICEF.
Kobak, R., Cassidy, J., Lyons-Ruth, K. & Ziv, Y. (2006) Attachment, Stress and
Psychopathology: A Developmental Pathways Model. In D. Cicchetti (Ed.),
Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 1, Theory and Method, 2nd Edition
(pp. 333-369). New York, NY: Wiley.
Zill, N., Resnick, G., Kim, K., O’Donnell, K., Sorongon, A., Ziv, Y., et al. (2006). Head
Start Performance Measures Center Family and Child Experiences Survey
(FACES 2000). Washington, DC: Administration for Children, Youth, and
Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Ziv, Y. (2005). Attachment-based intervention programs: Implications for attachment
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theory and research. In L. Berlin, Y. Ziv, L. Amaya-Jackson & M. Greenberg
(Eds.) Enhancing early attachments: Theory, research, intervention, and policy
(pp. 61-78). New York: Guilford Press.
Berlin, L., Ziv, Y., Amaya-Jackson, L., & Greenberg, M. (Eds.). (2005) Enhancing
early attachments: Theory, research, intervention, and policy. New York:
Guilford Press.
Ziv, Y., Oppenheim, D., & Sagi, A. (2004). Social information processing in middle
childhood: Relations to infant-mother attachment. Attachment and Human
Development, 6, 327-348.
Kobak, R., Cassidy, J., & Ziv, Y. (2004), Attachment-related trauma and posttraumatic
stress disorder.
In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (Eds.). Adult
attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 388-407). New
York: Guilford Press.
Cassidy, J., Ziv, Y., Mehta, T. G., & Feeney, B. (2003). Feedback-seeking in children
and adolescents: Associations with self-perceptions, attachment representations,
and depression. Child Development, 73, 612-628.
Sagi, A., Koren-Karie, N., Gini, M., Ziv, Y. & Joels, T. (2002). Shedding further light
on the effects of various types and quality of early child-care on infant-mother
attachment relationship: The Haifa study of early child-care. Child Development,
73, 1166-1186. [the contribution of the authors is equal]
Ziv, Y., & Cassidy, J. (2002). Maternal responsiveness and infant irritability: The
contribution of Crockenberg and Smith’s “Antecedents of mother-infant
interaction and infant irritability in the first three months of life.” Infant
Behavior and Development, 25, 16-20.
Ziv, Y., Aviezer, O., Gini, M., Sagi, A., & Koren-Karie, N. (2000). Emotional
availability in the mother-infant dyad as related to the quality of infant-mother
attachment relationship. Attachment and Human Development, 2, 149-169.
Aviezer, O., Sagi, A., Joels, T., & Ziv, Y. (1999). Dyadic emotional availability and
attachment representations in Kibbutz infants and their mothers. Developmental
Psychology, 35, 811-821.
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