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The programs provide students with the needed skills to improve the growth, functioning, welfare and happiness of individuals across the life span, from infancy to aging and to promote a more secure, prosperous, harmonious and peaceful world .The program includes a large complex of laboratories devoted to the study of human mind, brain, behavior, and social processes, with the ultimate goal of increasing Israeli society resilience and improving its human capital.

What's Up at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology

Congratulations to Prof. Gurit Birnbaum, whose article in collaboration with Dr. Amy Muise was published in Nature Reviews

The paper provides a cutting-edge review of the dynamics between sexual desire and its broader systemic context, including an examination of common public beliefs that aren't necessarily supported by science - such as the idea that more sex equals more happiness or that high levels of intimacy fuel desire (the intimacy-desire paradox).

Nature Reviews Psychology

In her recent Psychology Today post, Prof. Gurit Birnbaum explains how responsiveness to partners' needs outside the bedroom affects sexual interactions

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