Publications
2025
Fishman, J., Cohen, O., Abend, R., Haaker, J., & Shechner, T. (2026). Perturbations in observational threat learning predict anxiety symptoms in war-exposed adolescents: A longitudinal study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 196, 104934.
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​Haham, L., Aderka, I. M., Pine, D. S., Abend, R., & Shechner, T. (2025). Adolescence under fire: a multi-method study of psychological vulnerability and resilience among adolescents impacted by war. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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​Shner-Livne, G, Barak, N., Shitrit, I., Abend, R., & Shechner, T. (2025). Developmental differences in threat learning are associated with changes in frontal-central theta activity. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 34(11), 3387-3399.
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Cohen, O., Skversky-Blocq, Y., Mueller, M., Haaker, J., & Shechner, T. (2025). Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development. Behaviour research and therapy, 184, 104670.
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2024
Topaz, E., Perl, L., Raphael, I., Sheppes, T., Erez, G., Israeli, G., Segev-Becker, A., Oren, A., & Shechner, T. (2024). Mental Health and Timing of Gender-Related Events Among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents Seeking Gender-Affirming Consultation and Care. Psychiatry Research, 342, 116175.
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Shner-Livne, G, Barak, N., Shitrit, I., Abend, R., & Shechner, T. (2024). Late Positive Potential Reveals Sustained Threat Contingencies Despite Extinction in Adolescents but not Adults. Psychological Medicine, 54(11), 3156–3167.
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Mueller, M., Cohen, O, Shechner, T, & Haaker, J. (2024). Observational threat learning influences costly avoidance behaviour in healthy humans. Scientific Reports, 14, 17346.
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Gradi, N., Chopin, A., Bavelier, D., Shechner, T. & Pichon, S. (2024). Evaluating the effect of action-like video game play and of casual video game play on anxiety in adolescents with elevated anxiety: Protocol for a multi-center, parallel group, assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 56.
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Klein, Z., Shner-Livne, G., Danon-Kraun, S., Ginat-Frolich, R., Pine, D.S. & Shechner, T. (2024). Enhanced late positive potential to conditioned threat cue during delayed extinction in anxious youth. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65, 215-228.
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2022
Skwersky-Blocq, Y, Shmuel, S., Waters, Al., & Shechner, T. (2022). Observational extinction reduces fear and its retention among adolescents and adults. Behavior Research and Therapy, 159, 104207.
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​Skwersky-Blocq, Y, Cohen, O., Shmuel, S., & Shechner, T. (2022). Looking Fear in the Face: Adults but not Adolescents Gaze at Social Threat during Observational Learning. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 182, 240-247.
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Abend, R., Ruiz, S., Gold, A. L., Napoli, J., Britton, J. C. Michalska, K. J., Shechner, T., Winkler, A. M., Pine, D. S., & Averbeck, B. (2022) Computational modeling of rapid threat learning reveals links with anxiety and neuroanatomy. eLife, 11, e66169. Click here
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.
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2021
Fear learning, avoidance, and generalization are more context-dependent for adults than adolescents. Behavior Research and Therapy, 147, 103993.
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Skwersky-Blocq, Y, Hakker, J., & Shechner, T. (2021). Watch and learn: Vicarious fear learning across development in human studies. Brain Sciences, 11(10), 1345.
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Dannon-Kraun, S., Horovitz, O., Richter-Levin, G., Pine, D., & Shechner, T. (2021). Return of fear following extinction in youth: An event- related potential study. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, e22189.
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Glenn, D., Feldman J., Ivie, E., Shechner. T., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D., Peters, M., Michalska, K. (In press). Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(7), e22185.
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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, 114042.
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Skversky-Blocq, Y., Pine, D.S., & Shechner, T. (2021). Using a Novel Paradigm to Examine Observational Fear Learning across Development. Depression and Anxiety, 38, 731-738.
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Klein, Z., Ginat-Frolich, R., Barry, T. J., & Shechner, T. (2021). Effects of increased attention allocation to threat and safety stimuli on fear extinction and its recall. Journal of Behavior Research and Experimental Psychiatry, 72, 101640.
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Varma, M. M., Pitliya, R. J., Zbozinek, T. D., Shechner, T. & Barry, T. J.* (2021). Brief training to modify the breadth of attention influences the generalization of fear. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45, 99-119.
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2020
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.
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Abend, R., Gold, A. L., Britton, J. C., Michalska, K. J., Shechner, T., Sachs, J. F., Winkler, A. M., Leibenluft, E., Averbeck, B.B, & Pine, D.S. (2020). Anticipatory Threat Responding: Associations with Anxiety, Development, and the Brain Structure. Biological Psychiatry, 87, 916-925.
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Teichman Y., Stein, H., & Shechner, T. (2020). Cognitive Complexity Revealed by Jewish Israeli Adolescents Relating to Drawings of Jews and Arabs. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 30, 247-338.
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2019
Dvir, M., Horovitz, O., Aderka, I.M., & Shechner, T. (2019). Fear conditioning and extinction in anxious and non-anxious youth: a meta-analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 120.
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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, 859-865.
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Ginat-Frolich, R., Gendler, T., Marzan, D., Tsuk, Y., Shechner, T. (2019) Reducing fear overgeneralization in children using a novel perceptual discrimination task, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 116, 131-139.
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Stein, I., Asher, M., Erez, S., Shechner, T., Marom, S., Hermesh, H., Aderka, I. M. (2019). Developing a brief version of the Social Thoughts and Beliefs Scale (STABS) using item response theory. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 792-801.
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Abend, R., Swetlitz, C., White, L. K., Shechner, T., Bar-Haim, Y., Filippi, C., Kircanski, K., Haller, S. P., Benson, B. E., Chen, G., Leibenluft, E., Fox, N.A., & Pine, D.S. (2019). Levels of early-childhood behavioral inhibition predict distinct neurodevelopmental pathways to pediatric anxiety. Psychological Medicine. 1-11.
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Michalska, K., Feldman J., Ivie, E., Shechner, T., Sequeira, S., Averbeck, B., Leibenluft, E., Fox, N., & Pine, D. (2019). Early-childhood social reticence predicts SCR-BOLD coupling during fear extinction recall in preadolescent youth. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 1-11.
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2018
Mernick, B., Gendler T., Pine, A., & Shechner, T. (2018). Psychometric properties of the revised and translated behavioral inhibition questionnaire (BIQ). Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27, 1794-1804.
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Horovitz, O., Lindenfeld, I., Melamed, M., & Shechner, T. (2018). Developmental effects of stimulus gender and distractors affective valence on threat detection in a visual search task. British Journal of Development, 36, 452-466.
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Shechner, T., Fox, N. A., Mash, J. A., Jarcho J. M., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., & Britton J. C. (2018). Differences in neural response to extinction recall in young adults with or without history of behavioral inhibition. Development & Psychopathology, 30, 179-189.
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2017
Frolich, R., Katz, O, Klein, Z & Shechner, T. (2017). A novel perceptual discrimination training task: Reducing fear overgeneralization in the context of fear learning. Behavioral Research and Therapy, 93, 29-37.
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White, L. K., Henderson, H. A., Perez-Edgar, K., Walker, O. L., Degnan, K. A., Shechner, T., Leibenluft, E., Bar-Haim, Y., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A. (2017). Developmental relations between behavioral inhibition, anxiety, and attention biases to threat and positive information. Child Development, 88, 141-155.
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Shechner, T., Jarcho, J. M, Wong, S, Leibenluft, E., Pine, S.D. & Nelson, E. E. (2017). Threats, rewards, and attention deployment in anxious youth and adults: An eye tracking. Biological Psychology, 122, 121-129.
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2016
Shechner, T. & Bar-Haim, Y. (2016). Threat monitoring system and attention bias modification in anxiety and stress-related disorders. Current Direction of Psychological Science, 25, 431-437.
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Abend, R., Jalon, I., Gurevitch, G., Sar-el, R., Shechner, T., Pine, S. D., Hendler, T., Bar-Haim, Y. (2016). Modulation of fear extinction process using transcranial electrical stimulation. Translational Psychiatry, 6, 1-7.
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Jarcho, J. M., Davis, M. M., Shechner, T., Degnan, K. A, Heather, A. H., Fox, N. A., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., Nelson, E. E (2016). Early-childhood social reticence predicts brain function in preadolescent youths during distinct forms of peer evaluation. Psychological Science, 27, 821-835.
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Horovitz, O., Roitburd, B. L., Abend, R., Ziskind, D., & Shechner, T. (2016). Distraction versus training attention away from threat: How to best wait for the dentist. Australian Journal of Psychology, 68, 139-238.
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Prizant-Passal, S., Shechner, T., & Aderka, I. M. (2016). Social Anxiety and Internet Use - A Meta-Analysis: What do we know? What are we missing? Computers in Human Behavior, 62, 221-229.
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Gold, A. L., Shechner, T., Farber, B.A., Spiro, C. N., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S., & Britton, J. C. (2016). Amygdala-cortical connectivity: Associations with anxiety, development and threat. Depression and Anxiety, 33, 917-926.
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McLaughlin, K.A., Sheridan, A.S., Gold, A.L., Duys, A., Lambert,H.K., Perverill, M., Heleniak, C., Shechner, T., & Pine D. S. (2016). Trauma exposure, brain structure, and fear conditioning in children. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41, 1956-1964.
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Michalska, K. J., Shechner, T., Britton, J. C., Pine D. S.,& Fox, N. A. (2016). A developmental analysis of fear learning and generalization in childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 146, 95-105.
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White, L. K., Britton, J.C., Sequeira, S., Ronkin, E. G., Chen, G., Bar-Haim, Y., Shechner, T., Ernst, M., Fox, N.A., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S. (2016). Behavioral and neural stability of attention bias to threat in healthy adolescents. Neuroimage, 136, 84-93.
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2015
Mueller, S.C., Shechner, T., Rosen, D., Nelson, E.E., Pine, D.S., Ernst, M. (2015). Incidental threat during visual working memory in adolescent anxiety: An emotional memory-guided saccade task. Depression and Anxiety, 32, 282-295.
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Shechner, T., Britton, C. J., Ronkin, E G., Jarcho, J. M., Mash, J., Michalska K., Leibenluft E., & Pine D. S. (2015). Fear conditioning and extinction in anxious and non-anxious youth and adults: Examining a novel developmentally-appropriate fear conditioning task. Depression and Anxiety. 32, 288-288.
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Jarcho, J. M., Romer, A. L., Shechner, T., Galvan, A., Guyer, A. E., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., Nelson, E. E. (2015). Forgetting the best when predicting the worst: Preliminary observation on neural circuit function in adolescent social anxiety. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 21-31.
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2014
Shechner, T., Hong M., Britton, J.C., Pine, S.D. & Fox, N. (2014). Fear conditioning across development: Evidence from animal models and human studies. Biological Psychology, 100, 1-12.
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Shechner, T., Rimon-Chakir, A.#, Britton J. C., Lotan, D., Aptar, A., Bliese D. P., Pine, S. D. & Bar-Haim, Y. (2014). Attention bias modification treatment augmenting effects on cognitive behavioral therapy in children with anxiety: Randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53, 61-71.
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Jarcho, J. M., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., Shechner, T., Degnan, K. A., Perez-Edgar, K., & Ernst M. (2014). The enduring influence of early temperament on neural mechanisms mediating attention-emotion conflict in Adults. Depression and Anxiety, 31, 53-62.
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2013
Shechner, T., Jarcho, J., Britton J. C., Leibenluft, L., Pine D. S. & Nelson E. (2013). Attention bias of anxious youth during extended exposure of emotional face pairs: An eye-tracking study. Depression and Anxiety, 30, 14-2.
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Shechner, T., Wakschlag, N., Britton, J.C., Jarcho, J. M., Ernst M. & Pine D. S. (2013). Empirical examination of the potential adverse psychological effects associated with pediatric fMRI scanning. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 23, 357-362.
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Britton, J. B., Bar Haim, Y., Clementi, M. A., Sankin L. S., Chen, G., Shechner, T., Norcross M. A., Spiro C. N., Lindstrom, K. M., & Pine, D. S. (2013). Training-associated changes and stability of attention bias in youth: Implications for Attention Bias Modification Treatment for pediatric anxiety. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 52-64.
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Jarcho, J. M., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., Etkin, A., Leibenluft, E., Shechner, T., Ernst M. (2013). The neural correlates of emotion-based cognitive control in adults with early childhood behavioral inhibition. Biological Psychology, 92, 306-314.
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Britton, J. B., Bar Haim, Y., Clementi, M. A., Sankin L. S., Chen, G., Shechner, T., Norcross M. A., Spiro C. N., Lindstrom, K. M., & Pine, D. S. (2013). Training-associated changes and stability of attention bias in youth: Implications for Attention Bias Modification Treatment for pediatric anxiety. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 52-64.
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Lebowitz, R. R., Woolston, J., Bar Haim, Y., Calvocoressi, L., Dauser, C., Warnick, E., Scahill, L., Rimon, A., Shechner, T., Vitulano, L., King, R.A., Leckman, J. F. (2013). Family Accommodation in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders. Depression and Anxiety, 30, 47-54.
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Shechner, T., Slone, M., Lobel, T. E., & Shechter, R. (2013). Children's adjustment in non-traditional families in Israel: the effect of parental sexual orientation and the number of parents on children's development. Child: care, health and development, 39(2), 178–184.
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2012
Shechner T., Britton J. C., Pérez-Edgar K., Bar-Haim Y., Ernst M., Fox N. A., Leibenluft E., & Pine S. D. (2012). Attention biases, anxiety, and development: Toward or away from threats or rewards? Depression and Anxiety, 29, 282-294.
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Shechner, T., Pelc, T., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A, & Bar-Haim, Y. (2012). Flexible attention deployment in threatening contexts: An instructed fear conditioning study. Emotion, 12, 1041-1049.
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Slone, M., Shechner, T.,& Khoury Farah, O. (2012). Parenting style as a moderator of effects of political violence: Cross-cultural comparison of Israeli Jewish and Arab children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36, 62-70.
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2011
Slone, M., & Shechner, T. (2011). Adolescents exposed to 7 years of political violence: Differential relations between exposure and its impact for Jewish and Arab Israelis. Child Indicators Research, 4, 529-545.
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Wald, I., Shechner, T., Bitton, S., Holoshitz, Y., Charney, D. S., Muller, D., et al. (2011). Attention bias away from threat during life threatening danger predicts PTSD symptoms at one-year follow-up. Depression and Anxiety, 28, 406-411.
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2010
Shechner, T. (2010). Gender Identity Disorder: Literature review from a developmental perspective. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry and Related Science, 47, 132-138.
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Shechner, T., Slone, M., Meir, Y., & Kalish, Y. (2010). Relations between social support and psychological and parental distress for lesbian, single heterosexual by choice, and two parent heterosexual mothers. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80 ,283-292.
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2009
Slone, M., & Shechner, T. (2009). Psychiatric consequences for Israeli adolescents of protracted political violence: 1998 – 2004. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 280–289.
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2008
Teichman, Y., Redl, O., Shechner, T., Chen, R., & Schoenfeld A. (2008). A comparison of the psychological reaction of women who terminated pregnancy for medical reason to those who terminate pregnancy electively. Megamot, 4, 799-826 (Hebrew).
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2007
Shechner, T., Slone, M., & Bialik, G. (2007). Does political ideology moderate stress: The special case of soldiers conducting forced relocation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77, 189-198.
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