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Current Studies
PhD candidate in the direct PhD Track for Outstanding Students, advisor: Dr. Ruth Mayo.
Previous Degrees
B.A. in Psychology and Communications, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Research Interests
Devora’s primary research interests focus on the societal factors and individual dispositions that contribute to the erosion of our shared reality, as expressed by people's loss of discernment between agreed upon, shared facts and “alternative facts”. Devora developed a new scale to operationalize and capture this lack of discernment and is measuring the mutual influence of related traits such as distrust and a lack of intellectual humility.
She is the recipient of the President’s Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. Students and of the Barbara and Joseph Mandel Ph.D. Honors Program.
Publications
Newman, D., Lewandowsky, S & Mayo, R. (2022). “Believing in Nothing and Believing in Everything: The Underlying Cognitive Paradox of Anti COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes”, Personality and Individual Differences, 189(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111522.