Gal Sheppes Ph.D.
Short Biography
Gal completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel,
and completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University working with Dr.
James Gross. He engaged in clinical training in the Sderot area, working with children
with various emotional problems. Gal joined the faculty of the child clinical program
in the psychology department of Tel Aviv University in October 2011.
Research interests
Emotion, Emotion Regulation, Self control, Psychological Flexibility, Explicit and
Implicit Self Concept, Experimental Psychopathology.
List of Publications (updated October 2011)
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Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N. (2007). Better Late than Never? On the Dynamics of
Online Regulation of Sadness Using Distraction and Cognitive Reappraisal.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1518-1532.
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Sheppes, G., Meiran, N., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Shahar G. (2008). Cognitive
Mechanisms Underlying Implicit Negative Self Concept in Dysphoria. Emotion, 8,
386-394.
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Sheppes, G., & Meiran N. (2008). Divergent Cognitive Costs for Online Forms of
Reappraisal and Distraction. Emotion, 8, 870-874.
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Sheppes, G., Catran, E., & Meiran, N. (2009). Reappraisal (But Not Distraction) is
Going to Make You Sweat: Physiological Evidence for Self Control Effort.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 71, 91-96.
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Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N., Spivak, O., & Shahar, G. (2010). An Indirect Measure of
Negative Self Reference Interacts with Academic Failure to Predict Continuing
Depressive Symptomatology. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 602-609.
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Thiruchselvam, R., Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Rydstrom, A, & Gross, J.J. (2011). The
Temporal Dynamics of Emotion Regulation: An EEG Study of Distraction and
Reappraisal. Biological Psychology, 87, 84-92.
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Gross, J.J., Sheppes, G., & Urry, H.L. (2011). Emotion Generation and Emotion
Regulation: A Distinction we should make (carefully). Cognition and Emotion, 25,
765-781.
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Gross J.J., Sheppes, G., & Urry, H.L. (2011). Taking One’s Lumps While Doing the
Splits: A Big Tent Perspective on Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation.
Cognition and Emotion, 25, 789-793. (2009 ISI Impact Factor: 1.901. Reply to
commentaries on our target paper).
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Koole, S.L., van Dillen, L.F., & Sheppes, G. (2011). The Self-Regulation of Emotion. In
K.D. Vohs & R.F. Baumeister (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory,
and applications. New York: Guilford Press, pp 22-40.
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Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2011). Is Timing Everything? Temporal Considerations in
Emotion Regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 319-331.
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Sheppes, G., Scheibe, S., Suri, G., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Emotion-Regulation Choice.
Psychological Science.
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Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Di Tella, C., Williams, H., & Gross, J.J. (in press). See What
You Think: Reappraisal Modulates Behavioral and Neural Responses to Social
Stimuli. Psychological Science.
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Suri, G., Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Emotion Regulation and Cognition.
Handbook of Cognition and Emotion, New York, Guilford Press.
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Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Emotion Regulation Effectiveness: What Works
When. Handbook of Psychology 2nd edition, Indianapolis: Wiley-Blackwell Press.