Adjunct Faculty
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Adjunct rank detailsReuma Gadassi Polack
Assistant Professor Adjunct in the Child Study CenterAbout
Research
Publications
2026
The Interplay Between Emotion Regulation, Parental Burnout, and Psychological Distress During War: A Longitudinal Study
Keleynikov M, Lassri D, Cohen N, Benatov J, Gadassi‐Polack R. The Interplay Between Emotion Regulation, Parental Burnout, and Psychological Distress During War: A Longitudinal Study. Journal Of Marriage And Family 2026 DOI: 10.1111/jomf.70084.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNeural correlates linked to developmental and affective disorder–related self-referential processing: an ALE meta-analysis
Sawada Y, Edgar E, Ibrahim K, Reid L, Gadassi-Polack R, Bloch M, Crowley M. Neural correlates linked to developmental and affective disorder–related self-referential processing: an ALE meta-analysis. Cerebral Cortex 2026, 36: bhag031. PMID: 41860307, PMCID: PMC13017888, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhag031.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAssociations over time between wartime deployment, parental burnout and child adjustment
Keleynikov M, Lassri D, Benatov J, Cohen N, Gadassi-Polack R. Associations over time between wartime deployment, parental burnout and child adjustment. Psychiatry Research 2026, 358: 116943. PMID: 41576490, DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2026.116943.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchChanges in emotional granularity under a population‐level stressor predict social anxiety and depressive symptoms
Liu S, Zabag R, Xu J, Wang Y, Deng W, Joormann J, Gadassi‐Polack R. Changes in emotional granularity under a population‐level stressor predict social anxiety and depressive symptoms. Journal Of Research On Adolescence 2026, 36: e70131. PMID: 41490794, PMCID: PMC12768735, DOI: 10.1111/jora.70131.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAssociations between attentional disengagement from distressed infant faces and cortisol reactivity are moderated by depressive symptoms in pregnant women: an eye-tracking study
Dworschak C, Paganini G, Beech A, Gunther K, Rutherford H, Joormann J, Gadassi-Polack R. Associations between attentional disengagement from distressed infant faces and cortisol reactivity are moderated by depressive symptoms in pregnant women: an eye-tracking study. Archives Of Women's Mental Health 2026, 29: 3. PMID: 41484360, PMCID: PMC12764579, DOI: 10.1007/s00737-025-01638-2.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2025
Parental PTSD and Children’s Well-Being During Wartime: The Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation
Keleynikov M, Cohen N, Gadassi-Polack R, Lassri D, Benatov J. Parental PTSD and Children’s Well-Being During Wartime: The Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation. International Journal On Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy And Practice 2025, 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s42448-025-00238-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWhen emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress
Liu S, Xu J, Deng W, Feng A, Joormann J, Gadassi-Polack R. When emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress. Behaviour Research And Therapy 2025, 194: 104885. PMID: 41075419, PMCID: PMC12745362, DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2025.104885.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBiased and Inflexible Interpretations of Social Situations Predict Affect Intensity and Variability in Children and Adolescents
Hohensee N, Bronstein M, Everaert J, Zabag R, Joormann J, Gadassi-Polack R. Biased and Inflexible Interpretations of Social Situations Predict Affect Intensity and Variability in Children and Adolescents. Research On Child And Adolescent Psychopathology 2025, 53: 1567-1579. PMID: 40906292, PMCID: PMC12521329, DOI: 10.1007/s10802-025-01371-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSocial Reorientation of Emotion Regulation: Changing Roles of Family and Peers During Adolescence
Ho E, Joormann J, Kober H, Gadassi-Polack R. Social Reorientation of Emotion Regulation: Changing Roles of Family and Peers During Adolescence. Emotion 2025, 25: 1447-1459. PMID: 39992789, PMCID: PMC12353143, DOI: 10.1037/emo0001500.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAre biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens
Vos L, Lodder P, Bronstein M, Gadassi-Polack R, Smeets T, Joormann J, Everaert J. Are biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens. Behaviour Research And Therapy 2025, 193: 104845. PMID: 40886453, DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2025.104845.Peer-Reviewed Original Research