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VR. In the lab, we use study the impact of social interventions such as using virtual-reality (VR) to enable perspective taking. 

1. Adler E, Hasler B, Hasson Y, Landau D, Baratz G, Halperin E, Levy J(2025) AVirtual regulation: Can immersive virtual reality be used to assist intergroup interventions? The moderating effect of political ideology. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
2. Kluge A, Levy J * (2025) Extreme ingroup and outgroup perspectives counter-intuitively impact intergroup polarisation at the level of neural oscillations. Cortex
3. Kluge A, Zebarjadi N, Tassinari M, Lin FH, Jääskeläinen IP, Jasinskaja-Lahti I, Levy J (2025) Supportive but biased: perceptual neural intergroup bias is sensitive to minor reservations about supporting outgroup immigration. Neuropsychologia 208:109068.
4. Kluge A, Levy J (2024) Ideological symmetry in outgroup bias: a neuroimaging study in the context of vaccine hesitancy. Frontiers In Social Psychology 2. .
5. Zebarjadi N, Kluge A, Adler E, Levy J (2024) New Vistas for the Relationship between Empathy and Political Ideology. eNeuro 11(11):ENEURO.0086-24.2024. 
   doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0086-24.2024.
6. Levy J, Kluge A, Hameiri B, Lankinen K, Bar-Tal D, Halperin E (2024) The Paradoxical Brain: Paradoxes Impact Conflict Perspectives through Increased Neural Alignment. Cerebral Cortex 34(9),
7. Kluge A, Somila N, Lankinen K, Levy J(2024) Neural Alignment during Outgroup Intervention Predicts Future Change of Affect towards Outgroup. Cerebral Cortex.
8. Kluge A, Adler E, Nir L, Halperin E, Sams M, Levy J(2024) Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias. Political Psychology.
9. Zebarjadi N, Levy J (2023) Neural shifts in alpha rhythm's dual functioning during empathy maturation. Brain and Behavior. .
10. Zebarjadi N, Adler E, Kluge A, Sams M, Levy J (2023) Ideological values are parametrically associated with empathy neural response to vicarious suffering. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 
11. Hautala A, Kluge A, Hameiri B, Zebarjadi N, Levy J (2023) Examining implicit neural bias against vaccine hesitancy. Social Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2162119
12. Levy J, Goldstein A, Influs M, Masalha S, Feldman R (2022) Dialogue Intervention for Youth amidst Intractable Conflict Attenuates Neural Prejudice Response and Promotes Adults' Peacemaking. PNAS Nexus, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac236
13. Turk E, Endevelt-Shapira Y, Feldman R, van den Heuvel MI* & Levy J* (2022) Brains in sync: Practical guideline for parent-infant EEG during natural interaction. Frontiers in Psychology 13:833112. (* shared last authorship). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.833112
14. Turk E, Vroomen J, Fonken Y, Levy J*& van den Heuvel MI* (2022) In sync with your child: The potential of parent-child EEG in developmental research. Developmental Psychobiology 64(3) e22221. (* shared last authorship) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.22221
15. Van Bavel, J.J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V. et al. (2022) National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications 13: 517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9
16. Adler, Hebel-Sela, Adomi Leshem, Levy* & Halperin* (2022) A social virus: Intergroup dehumanization and unwillingness to aid amidst COVID-19 - Who are the main targets? International Journal of Intercultural Relations. (* shared last authorship) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.11.006
17. Zebarjadi N & Levy J (2021) Neural shifts in alpha rhythm's dual functioning during empathy. Brain and Behavior. Registered-report (Stage 1 acceptance).
18. Zebarjadi N, Adler E, Kluge A, Jääskeläinen IP, Sams M, Levy J (2021) Rhythmic neural patterns during empathy to vicarious pain: Beyond the Affective-Cognitive Empathy dichotomy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15:708107. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2021.708107
19. Levy J, Bader O (2020). Graded Empathy: A Neuro-Phenomenological Hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychiatry - Social Cognition. 11:554848. 

Statement & Bio

What drives my work in science is the passion to investigate phenomena from multiple perspectives, and merging them into novel representations. I foremost love using MEG in cojunction with various humanistic and technological approaches. 

My first passion is rooted in the relations between our brain and our subjective-experience (during my PhD) and our social behaviour (during my postdoc). My second passion in life has been the relations between social groups. Leading multilevel investigations on multiple social groups excites my scientific intellect.