Zohar Klein holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Master’s degree in Clinical Neuropsychology, and a PhD supervised by Prof. Tomer Shechner, all from the University of Haifa. Zohar is interested in the learning processes that govern the acquisition, generalization, and extinction of threat and reward associations. Using computational and neuroimaging methods, he aims to integrate associative learning theory, clinical psychology, and translational neuroscience to better understand basic human emotions.
Publications
Klein, Z., Zabag, R., Hay, D., Levy-Gigi, E., & Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (2025). On bias and balance: Updating agentic and communal self-beliefs in social anxiety and depression. Behavior Research and Therapy, 195(10490), 5.
Klein, Z., Shner‐Livne, G., Danon‐Kraun, S., Ginat‐Frolich, R., Pine, D. S., & Shechner, T. (2023). Enhanced late positive potential to conditioned threat cue during delayed extinction in anxious youth. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65(2), 215-228.
Klein, Z., Abend, R., Shmuel, S., & Shechner, T. (2022). Unique associations between conditioned cognitive and physiological threat responses and facets of anxiety symptomatology in youth. Biological Psychology, 170, 108314.
Klein, Z., Berger, S., Vervliet, B., & Shechner, T. (2021). Fear learning, avoidance, and generalization are more context-dependent for adults than adolescents. Behavior Research and Therapy, 147, 103993.
Perl, L., Oren, A., Klein, Z., & Shechner, T. (2021). Effects of the COVID19 pandemic on transgender and gender non-conforming adolescents’ mental health. Psychiatry Research, 302, 114042.
Klein, Z., Berger, S., Vervliet, B., & Shechner, T. (2021). High avoidance despite low fear of a second-order conditional stimulus. Behavior Research and Therapy, 136, 103765.
Klein, Z., Ginat-Frolich, R., Barry, T., & Shechner, T. (2021). Effects of increased attention allocation to threat and safety stimuli on fear extinction and its recall. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 72, 101640.
Klein, Z., Shner, G., Ginat-Frolich, R., Vervliet, B., & Shechner, T. (2020). The effects of age and trait anxiety on avoidance learning and its generalization. Behavior Research and Therapy, 129, 103611.
Ginat-Frolich, R., Klein, Z., Aderka, I., & Shechner, T. (2019). Reducing avoidance and improving threat perception in adults with high spider fear using perceptual discrimination training. Depression and Anxiety, 36(9), 859-865.
Ginat-Frolich, R., Klein, Z., Katz, O., & Shechner, T. (2017). A novel perceptual discrimination training task: Reducing fear overgeneralization in the context of fear learning. Behavior Research and Therapy, 93, 29-37.