Publications
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2025
לשם, ר. (2025). התנהגויות בסיכון בקרב מתבגרים: המוח החושב לעומת המוח המרגיש. In י. אידיסיס, ל. כהן-רז, & פ. סילפן (Eds.), קרימינולוגיה קלינית בישראל: תיאוריה, מחקר וקליניקה (pp. 475-527). הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר-אילן. https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=114155268#1.0.6.default
2024
Leshem, R., Catz, O., & Nave, A. (2024). The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Impulsivity: The Role of Meditation. Mindfulness, 15(5), 1234-1251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02371-0
Leshem, R. (2024). Internal and External Crime Hot Spots: From Neural to Micro-Geographical Networks. International Annals of Criminology, 62(1), 56-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/cri.2024.3
Leshem, R., & Mashal, N. (2024). What does metaphoric language say about aggression? The relationships between metaphoric language, impulsivity, and aggression. Acta Psychologica, 243, Article 104173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104173
2023
Leshem, R., Himan Heltai, S., & Mashal, N. (2023). Personality traits and environment: The effects of observing visual art on verbal creativity. In T. D. Ben-Soussan, J. Glicksohn, J. Glicksohn, & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Neurophysiology of Silence Part A: Empirical Studies (pp. 85-108). (Progress in Brain Research; Vol. 277). Elsevier B.V.. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.12.006
Leshem, R., & Sela-Sheffy, R. (2023). Affect, ethnic boundaries and social mobility: transforming identities in the acculturation of Ashkenazi immigrants in Israel. Emotions and Society, 5(2), 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1332/263169022X16633243305661
2022
Paoletti, P., Leshem, R., Pellegrino, M., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2022). Tackling the Electro-Topography of the Selves Through the Sphere Model of Consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 836290. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.836290
Paoletti, P., Di Giuseppe, T., Lillo, C., Ben-Soussan, T. D., Bozkurt, A., Tabibnia, G., Kelmendi, K., Warthe, G. W., Leshem, R., Bigo, V., Ireri, A., Mwangi, C., Bhattacharya, N., & Perasso, G. F. (2022). What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic? Resilience for the future and neuropsychopedagogical insights. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 993991. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993991
Leshem, R., Icht, M., & Ben-David, B. M. (2022). Processing of Spoken Emotions in Schizophrenia: Forensic and Non-forensic Patients Differ in Emotional Identification and Integration but Not in Selective Attention. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 847455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.847455
2021
Leshem, R., & Altman, C. (2021). Distinct Effects of Executive Functioning, Impulsivity and Anxiety on Global and Local Reading Comprehension. Frontiers in Education, 6, Article 746978. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.746978
Leshem, R., & King, R. (2021). Trait impulsivity and callous-unemotional traits as predictors of inhibitory control and risky choices among high-risk adolescents. International Journal of Psychology, 56(2), 314-321. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12710
2020
Leshem, R., Icht, M., Bentzur, R., & Ben-David, B. M. (2020). Processing of Emotions in Speech in Forensic Patients With Schizophrenia: Impairments in Identification, Selective Attention, and Integration of Speech Channels. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Article 601763. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.601763
Leshem, R., De Fano, A., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2020). The Implications of Motor and Cognitive Inhibition for Hot and Cool Executive Functions: The Case of Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 940. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00940
Leshem, R. (2020). There are more than two sides to antisocial behavior: The inextricable link between hemispheric specialization and environment: The inextricable link between hemispheric specialization and environment. Symmetry, 12(10), 1-16. Article 1671. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12101671
Menashe, S., Leshem, R., Heruti, V., Kasirer, A., Yair, T., & Mashal, N. (2020). Elucidating the role of selective attention, divergent thinking, language abilities, and executive functions in metaphor generation. Neuropsychologia, 142, Article 107458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107458
Leshem, R. (2020). Trait Anxiety and Attention: Cognitive Functioning as a Function of Attentional Demands. Current Psychology, 39(5), 1830-1842. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-9884-9
2019
Leshem, R., & Yefet, M. (2019). Does impulsivity converge distinctively with inhibitory control? Disentangling the cold and hot aspects of inhibitory control. Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.003
De Fano, A., Leshem, R., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2019). Creating an internal environment of cognitive and psycho‐emotional well-being through an external movement‐based environment: An overview of quadrato motor training. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(12), Article 2160. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122160
Leshem, R., van Lieshout, P. H. H. M., Ben-David, S., & Ben-David, B. M. (2019). Does emotion matter? The role of alexithymia in violent recidivism: A systematic literature review. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 29(2), 94-110. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2110
Leshem, R., Paoletti, P., Piervincenzi, C., Carducci, F., Mallio, C. A., Errante, Y., Quattrocchi, C. C., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2019). Inward versus reward: White matter pathways in extraversion. Personality Neuroscience, 2, Article e6. https://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2019.6
Leshem, R., & Weisburd, D. (2019). Epigenetics and Hot Spots of Crime: Rethinking the Relationship Between Genetics and Criminal Behavior. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 35(2), 186-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986219828924
Cohen, A., & Leshem, R. (2019). The Rebellion of Memories in The Immigrant’s Lament by Mois Benarroch. Sguardo, 2(29), 429-456. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3949743
2018
Glicksohn, J., Naor-Ziv, R., & Leshem, R. (2018). Sensation seeking and risk-taking. In Developmental Pathways to Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders (pp. 183-208). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-811323-3.00008-0
2016
Leshem, R. (2016). Brain Development, Impulsivity, Risky Decision Making, and Cognitive Control: Integrating Cognitive and Socioemotional Processes During Adolescence—An Introduction to the Special Issue. Developmental Neuropsychology, 41(1-2), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2016.1187033
Leshem, R. (2016). The adolescent brain: Risky behavior in adolescence. Paper presented at The International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain.
Leshem, R. (2016). Relationships between trait impulsivity and cognitive control: the effect of attention switching on response inhibition and conflict resolution. Cognitive Processing, 17(1), 89-103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0733-6
Leshem, R. (2016). Using Dual Process Models to Examine Impulsivity Throughout Neural Maturation. Developmental Neuropsychology, 41(1-2), 125-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2016.1178266
Leshem, R., & Sela-Sheffy, R. (2016). Emotion-identity management through talk: Anger talk in young Israeli men's accounts on a negative experience. In Identity in Communicative Contexts (Vol. 48, pp. 81-98). Peter Lang AG. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-06100-0
2015
Leshem, R. (2015). Relationships between cognitive control and trait impulsivity: Examining the effect of attention switching on processing selection in a dichotic-listening focused attention paradigm. Paper presented at International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Leshem, R. (2015). Risk behaviors through neuropsychological lens. Paper presented at The conference of the Israeli Association of Criminology, Jerusalem, Israel.
Leshem, R., Arzouan, Y., & Armony-Sivan, R. (2015). The effects of sad prosody on hemispheric specialization for words processing. Brain and Cognition, 96, 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2015.03.002
2014
Leshem, R., Armoni-Sivan, R., & Arzouan, Y. (2014). Lateralized effects of sad prosody on word processing: An EEG study. Paper presented at International Neuropsychological Society, Jerusalem, Israel.
Leshem, R. (2014). The effects of attention on ear advantages in Dichotic-Listening to Words and Affects. Paper presented at The Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Akko, Israel.
2013
Leshem, R. (2013). The effects of attention on ear advantages in dichotic listening to words and affects. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25(8), 932-940. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2013.834905
2012
Leshem, R., & Glicksohn, J. (2012). A critical look at the relationship between impulsivity and decision-making in adolescents: Are they related or separate factors? Developmental Neuropsychology, 37(8), 712-731. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2012.718815
2011
Leshem, R. (2011). Dichotic Listening to words following a left hemispherectomy - A case study. Paper presented at Mind, Brain and Education Society, San Diego, United States.
Leshem, R., & Zaidel, E. (2011). Hemispheric basis of impulsivity and anxiety in relation to attention in dichotic-listening to words and affects. Paper presented at Association for Psychological Science, Washington, United States.
Glicksohn, J., & Leshem, R. (2011). Reproduction of duration: How should I count the ways? In Multidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception - COST TD0904 International Workshop, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 79-91). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6789 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21478-3_7
Leshem, R., & Zaidel, E. (2011). The effects of attention on laterality indices in dichotic-listening to words and affects. Paper presented at The International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, United States.
2007
Glicksohn, J., Naor-Ziv, R., & Leshem, R. (2007). Impulsive decision-making: Learning to gamble wisely? Cognition, 105(1), 195-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2006.08.003
Leshem, R., & Glicksohn, J. (2007). The construct of impulsivity revisited. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(4), 681-691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.01.015
2006
Glicksohn, J., Leshem, R., & Aharoni, R. (2006). Impulsivity and time estimation: Casting a net to catch a fish. Personality and Individual Differences, 40(2), 261-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.07.003