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  1. Can a One-Time Subtle Attachment Security Priming Impact Outcomes in the Real World?

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Omri Gillath

  2. Person-situation interactions as predictors of variations in attachment

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, July 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  3. Ninety years after Lewin: The role of familism and attachment style in social networks characteristics across 21 nations/areas

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  4. Setting Appropriateness and Romantic Relationship Initiation Success

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  5. Effects of attachment security priming on women’s math performance

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Omri Gillath

  6. Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample

    Article • Journal of Personality, April 2023, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  7. Correction to: Increased Urination Urgency Exacerbates Sexual Risk-Taking Through Heightened Sexual Arousal

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Omri Gillath

  8. How deep is AI's love? Understanding relational AI

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Omri Gillath

  9. Do masks affect social interaction?

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  10. Increased Urination Urgency Exacerbates Sexual Risk-Taking Through Heightened Sexual Arousal

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Omri Gillath

  11. Attachment Security Priming: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Review, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  12. Do life events lead to enduring changes in adult attachment styles? A naturalistic longitudinal investigation.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  13. Buying and building success: Perceptions of organizational strategies for improvement

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  14. The Dual Function Model of Attachment Security Priming: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Omri Gillath

  15. Do our food preferences relate to our relationship style and dating behaviors?

    Article • Appetite, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  16. Relationship Maintenance from an Attachment Perspective

    Article • December 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Omri Gillath

  17. Effects of self- and partner’s online disclosure on relationship intimacy and satisfaction

    Article • PLOS One, March 2019, PLOS

    Dr Omri Gillath

  18. Personality differences in closeness to network members

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, February 2019, Elsevier

    Juwon Lee, Dr Omri Gillath

  19. Attachment security priming: a systematic review

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  20. Birth status and adult attachment

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, July 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  21. A Net of Friends: Investigating Friendship by Integrating Attachment Theory and Social Network Analysis

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  22. Which people stay friends with their ex-partners, why, and what happens.

    Article • Personal Relationships, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath, XIAN ZHAO

  23. Stress and wellbeing during chronic illness and partner death in later-life: the role of social support

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  24. Generalizing disposability: Residential mobility and the willingness to dissolve social ties

    Article • Personal Relationships, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  25. Nonverbal Communication of Similarity Via the Torso: It’s in the Bag

    Article • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Omri Gillath

  26. What Is an Attachment Relationship?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  27. What Are Attachment Working Models?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  28. What Is Attachment Theory?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  29. How Do Individual Differences in Attachment Develop?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  30. What Can Neuroscience, Genetics, and Physiology Tell Us About Attachment?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  31. How Stable Are Attachment Styles in Adulthood?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  32. What Can Social Cognition and Priming Tell Us About Attachment?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  33. What are the Implications of Attachment Processes for Psychopathology and Therapy?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  34. What Are the Effects of Context on Attachment?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  35. How Are Individual Differences in Attachment Measured?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  36. What Is the Attachment Behavioral System? And, How Is It Linked to Other Behavioral Systems?

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  37. Similarity in Relationships as Niche Construction: Choice, Stability, and Influence Within Dyads in a Free Choice Environment.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  38. The Causal Effects of Relational Security and Insecurity on Condom Use Attitudes and Acquisition Behavior

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Omri Gillath

  39. Measurement Invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults Across 23 Cultural Contexts

    Article • Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  40. Effects of mental resource availability on looming task performance

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Omri Gillath

  41. Unconscious Desire: The Affective and Motivational Aspects of Subliminal Sexual Priming

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Omri Gillath

  42. Ethnic Identity in Emerging Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa and the USA, and Its Associations with Psychological Well-Being

    Article • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  43. Testing a dual-process model of avoidant defenses

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  44. Insights into the Formation of Attachment Bonds from a Social Network Perspective

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Omri Gillath

  45. The consequences of high levels of attachment security

    Article • Personal Relationships, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  46. When the Love Hormone Leads to Violence

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  47. Neural evidence for a multifaceted model of attachment security

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  48. Shoes as a source of first impressions

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  49. Regrets, I’ve had a few

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, May 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  50. Attachment and Caregiving

    Article • April 2012, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  51. Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses.

    Article • Emotion, April 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  52. Attachment, breakup strategies, and associated outcomes: The effects of security enhancement on the selection of breakup strategies

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  53. Relationship Science: Integrating Evolutionary, Neuroscience, and Sociocultural Approaches.

    Article • January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  54. Effects of low survivability cues and participant sex on physiological and behavioral responses to sexual stimuli

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  55. Neural correlates of exposure to subliminal and supraliminal sexual cues

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, October 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  56. In and Out of a Daydream

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  57. Comparing Old and Young Adults as They Cope with Life Transitions: The Links between Social Network Management Skills and Attachment Style to Depression

    Article • Clinical Gerontologist, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Omri Gillath

  58. Attachment, authenticity, and honesty: Dispositional and experimentally induced security can reduce self- and other-deception.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  59. Adult attachment insecurity and hippocampal cell density

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, December 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  60. Intrusiveness in romantic relationships: A cross-cultural perspective on imbalances between proximity and autonomy

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, September 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  61. Attachment, attention, and cognitive control: Attachment style and performance on general attention tasks

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  62. Development and validation of a state adult attachment measure (SAAM)

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  63. Applying lessons from the person–situation debate to attachment theory and research

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, April 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  64. The effects of psychological security and insecurity on political attitudes and leadership preferences

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, February 2009, Wiley

    Dr Omri Gillath

  65. State Adult Attachment Measure

    Article • January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  66. Autobiographical memory phenomenology and content mediate attachment style and psychological distress.

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  67. Attachment style and long‐term singlehood

    Article • Personal Relationships, December 2008, Wiley

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  68. Genetic Correlates of Adult Attachment Style

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  69. Moving Toward a Secure Attachment Style: Can Repeated Security Priming Help?

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  70. What Can Virtual Reality Teach Us About Prosocial Tendencies in Real and Virtual Environments?

    Article • Media Psychology, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  71. When Sex Primes Love: Subliminal Sexual Priming Motivates Relationship Goal Pursuit

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, May 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  72. Psychometric Properties of the Spanish and American Versions of the ECR Adult Attachment Questionnaire

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, January 2008, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  73. Avoiding Interference: Adult Attachment and Emotional Processing Biases

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, December 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  74. Effects of attachment style and relationship context on selection among relational strategies

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, August 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  75. Does Subliminal Exposure to Sexual Stimuli Have the Same Effects on Men and Women?

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  76. A measure of relationship behaviors

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  77. Avoidant attachment predicts directing attention away from threatening words

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  78. Measuring subgoals of the sexual behavioral system: What is sex good for?

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, October 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  79. Automatic Activation of Attachment-Related Goals

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  80. Self-Reported Attachment, Interpersonal Aggression, and Personality Disorder in a Prospective Community Sample of Adolescents and Adults

    Article • Journal of Personality Disorders, August 2006, Guilford Publications

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  81. Attachment style and the regulation of negative emotions: Behavioral and fMRI evidence

    Article • January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  82. When sex is more than just sex: Attachment orientations, sexual experience, and relationship quality.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Gurit E Birnbaum, Dr Omri Gillath

  83. The siren's call: Terror management and the threat of men's sexual attraction to women.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  84. Attachment, caregiving, and volunteering: Placing volunteerism in an attachment-theoretical framework

    Article • Personal Relationships, December 2005, Wiley

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  85. Attachment-style differences in the ability to suppress negative thoughts: Exploring the neural correlates

    Article • NeuroImage, December 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  86. Attachment, Caregiving, and Altruism: Boosting Attachment Security Increases Compassion and Helping.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, November 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  87. Worldwide, economic development and gender equality correlate with liberal sexual attitudes and behavior: What does this tell us about evolutionary psychology?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  88. From parents to children—similarity in parents and offspring driving styles

    Article • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  89. The multidimensional driving style inventory—scale construct and validation

    Article • Accident Analysis & Prevention, May 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Omri Gillath

  90. Talk title: Attachment security, compassion, and altruistic helping

    Article • January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  91. Automatic activation of attachment-related goals: The case of self-disclosure and support seeking

    Article • January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  92. Attachment Theory and Concern for Others'Welfare: Evidence That Activation of the Sense of Secure Base Promotes Endorsement of Self-Transcendence Values

    Article • Basic and Applied Social Psychology, December 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Omri Gillath

  93. Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: Threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  94. Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: Threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  95. Attachment theory and rections to others' needs: Evidence that activiation of the sense of attachment security promotes empathic responses.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  96. The affective component of the secure base schema: Affective priming with representations of attachment security.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  97. Attachment theory and rections to others' needs: Evidence that activiation of the sense of attachment security promotes empathic responses.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  98. The affective component of the secure base schema: Affective priming with representations of attachment security.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  99. A Behavioral Systems Perspective on Compassionate Love

    Article • Wiley

    Professor Phillip R. Shaver, Dr Omri Gillath

  100. Prejudice

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Omri Gillath

  101. Sexual Behavioral System Subgoals

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  102. Understanding sexual mating strategies via attachment and life history theories

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  103. Is sex fun? Subliminal sexual priming positive affect and motivation

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  104. Attachment style and closeness in social networks: A longitudinal examination

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  105. Perception of sexual stimuli influences cognitive task performance

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  106. Mindfulness and Attachment Security As Predictors of Success in Therapy

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  107. Sexuality and romantic relationship: The mediating role of attachment styles

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  108. Development and validation of a state measure of adult attachment

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  109. The FACS of flirting: Evidence for a specific female flirting expression

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  110. Sexual fantasies and romantic relationships: The moderating role of attachment styles

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  111. Effects of attachment security priming on food sharing

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  112. Social role changes the way people look at others

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  113. Your torso can talk: Visual cues to similarity detection

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  114. Effects of attachment style and contextual enhancement of attachment security on sexual strategies preference

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  115. Attachment and cognition: Individual differences in information processing

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  116. Selective information processing: Is attachment style related to general attention?

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  117. Effects of a security boost and mortality salience on implicit attitudes

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  118. Avoiding interference: What does attachment avoidance contribute to stroop performance?

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  119. Playing hard-to-get and pursuing others who play: The role of attachment style

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath

  120. A multilevel, multimethod interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of attachment.

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Omri Gillath