Omri Gillath, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Blvd. Rm 518
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7556
Phone: 785-864-1772
Fax: 785-864-5696
E-mail:
Website: http://psych.ku.edu/people/faculty/gillath_omri.shtml
Date of birth: November, 1970
Marital status: Married +2
Military service: 1989 – 2013, Captain – Israeli army reserve
Education
2003 - 2006 University of California, Davis, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Supervisors,
Profs. P. R. Shaver and S. Bunge.
2000 - 2003 Bar-Ilan University, Psychology Ph.D., Supervisor: Prof. M. Mikulincer
1998 - 2000 Bar-Ilan University, Experimental Psychology M.A., Supervisor: Prof. M. Mikulincer
1994 - 1997 Haifa University, Psychology B.A.
Awards and Scholarships
2016 – The college of liberal arts and science John C. Wright 2016 Graduate Mentor Award
2012 – IARR Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement.
2011 – SAGE Young Scholars Award the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology.
2011 – Caryl Rusbult Close Relationships Early Career Award (from the Relationship Researchers Interest Group (RRIG) within the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
2010 – The J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award for 2009-2010 in the Social and Behavioral Division, University of Kansas.
2010 – Science of Generosity RFP grant award (University of Notre Dame). Nine of the best 28 full proposals and 327 LOIs submitted were selected for final consideration. (Status: funded)
2009 – Gillath, O., et al. New Directions in Research on Close Relationships: Integrating across Disciplines and Theoretical Approaches. The 2009 Mini-conference of the International Association for Relationship Research. Scientific Conference Grant, Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association. Award amount: $12,000.
2009 – Gillath, O., et al. New Directions in Research on Close Relationships: Integrating across Disciplines and Theoretical Approaches. The 2009 Mini-conference of the International Association for Relationship Research. Outreach Partnership Grant, Provost's Office. Award amount: $3,500
2008 – University of Kansas – faculty travel grant
2008 – Primary investigator: Daily fluctuations in perceptions of mating alternatives among people in long-term relationships. University of Kansas New Faculty General Research Fund. $8500.
2008 – National Science Foundation – KUTRI – Project investigating the effects of inattention on driving. $63,000
2007 – University of Kansas – faculty travel grant
2006 – UC Davis Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research
2006-2008: Fetzer Institute: “The Shamatha Project: A Longitudinal Study of the Cognitive, Emotional, and Neural Effects of Sustained, Intensive Meditation Training,” Clifford Saron PI.
2006-2008: Hershey Family Foundation: “Supplement to the Shamatha Project,” Clifford Saron PI.
2006-2007: Amini Foundation: supporting a study of “Attachment Security and Authenticity: Mapping the Association and Exploring Ways to Enhance Authenticity (with Phillip Shaver, and David Chun) $10,000
2005 – Freshman Seminar Research Fund (with Phillip Shaver)
2004 – UC Davis Neuroimaging Center: “Functional MRI Assessment of Emotional
Suppression as a Function of Adult Attachment Style” (with Phillip Shaver)
2004 – UC Davis Post Doctoral fellowship and travel award
2004 – Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, Case Western Reserve University:
“An Immersive Virtual Environment Approach to Measuring Compassion and Altruism” (with Phillip Shaver and Jim Blascovich)
2004 – NSF-sponsored summer institute on Immersive Virtual Environment Technology
2003 – Positive Psychology Grant (with Phillip Shaver and Mario Mikulincer)
2003 – Fetzer Conference on Compassionate Love, May 2003; international travel award
2003 – Positive Psychology Summer Institute Fellowship
2001 – Dissertation research grant from the “Israel Foundation Trustees” (Ford Foundation) for the years 2001-2002
2000 – Excellency Scholarship, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
1999 – Excellency Scholarship, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
1997 – Fanzani Scholarship
1996 – Dean’s Award, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
1995 – Dean’s Award, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
Academic Positions
2013 University of California, Santa Barbara, visiting Associate Professor
2011 - present University of Kansas, Department of Psychology: Associate Professor
2006 - 2011 University of Kansas, Department of Psychology: Assistant Professor
2005 - 2006 University of California, Davis, Department of Psychology: co-instructor for a freshman research seminar on attachment theory
2004 - 2006 University of California, Davis, Department of Psychology: guest lecturer in courses on Psychology of Emotions, Personality, Psychology and Film
1998 - 2003 Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology: teaching assistant
1998 - 2003 Ashkelon Regional College, Department of Psychology: instructor, teaching assistant
1996 - 1997 Haifa University, Department of Psychology: teaching assistant
Research Positions
2002 - 2003 Project on volunteerism funded by the Fetzer Institute – research coordinator, Bar-Ilan University
1998 - 2003 Peleg Bilig Center for the Study of Family Well Being - Bar-Ilan University, researcher
1998 - 2002 Driving Research - General Motors Project, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, - research coordinator
1998 - 2001 Research division at the mental health department of the medical corps of the Israel Defense Forces: project leader
1994 - 1998 Haifa University, Ray D. Wolf Center for Psychological Stress: research assistant
Research Interests
Personality and social psychology; social neuroscience; research on attachment theory (individual differences in attachment orientation; brain mechanisms and genetic polymorphisms underlying these differences; attentional processes related to these differences; relations between the attachment, caregiving, and sexual behavioral systems as they affect adult relationships); prosocial motivation and behavior (compassion and altruism); affiliation, social networks, and friendship processes.
Editorship and Editorial Boards
Personal Relationships Associate Editor 2012 -
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology JPSP-IRGP (2010 - )
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology JPSP- PPID (2010 - )
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2009 – 2012)
Journal of Research in Personality (2009 – 2013)
Personal Relationships (2008 – 2012)
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2008 – present)
Ad-hoc Reviewer (journals)
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Cognition and Emotion
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Therapy and Research
Current Directions in Psychological Science
European Journal of Social Psychology
Human Brain Mapping
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (IRGP, PPID)
Journal of Research in Personality
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Personal Relationships
Personality and Individual differences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Personality and Social Psychology Review
Psychology and Aging
Psychological Science
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Self and Identity
Sex Roles
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Social Justice Research
Social Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Ad-hoc Reviewer (grants)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)
Binational Science Foundation (United States – Israel)
Anthony Marchionne Foundation
National institute of Health (NIH SPIP study section)
Professional Memberships:
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)
Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP; elected Fellow 2015)
Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP; Fellow, 2009)
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles:
1. Gillath, O., Canterberry, M., & Atchley, P. (in press). Attachment as a predictor of driving performance. Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour.
2. Griffith, R., Gillath, O., Zhao, X., & Martinez, R. (in press). Staying Friends with Ex-Romantic Partners: Predictors, Reasons, and Outcomes. Personal Relationships.
3. Goodman, D. L., Gillath, O., & *Haj-Mohamadi, P. (in press). Development and Validation of the PORM: Pretending Orgasm Reasons Measure. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
4. Karantzas, C. G., & Gillath, O. (in press). Stress and wellbeing during chronic illness and partner death in later-life: The role of social support. Current Opinions in Psychology.
5. Lee, J., & Gillath, O. (in press). Perceived closeness to multiple social connections and attachment style: A longitudinal examination. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
6. Lee, J., Adams, G., Li, Y. J., & Gillath, O. (in press). Context matters for attractiveness bias [Peer commentary on the paper “Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology” by D. Maestripieri, A. Henry, & N. Nickels]. Brain and Behavioral Sciences.
7. Bahns, A., Crandall, C., Gillath, O., & Preacher, K. (in press). Similarity in Relationships as Niche Construction: Choice, Stability, and Influence within Dyads in a Free Choice Environment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.
8. Adams, B. G., …. Gillath, O…. (in press). Ethnic Identity in Emerging Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa and the US, and its Associations with Psychological Well-Being. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
9. Gillath, O., & Keefer, L. A. (2016). Generalizing disposability: Residential mobility and the willingness to dissolve social ties. Personal Relationships, 23,186-198.
10. Bahns, A. J., Crandall, C. S., Gillath, O. & Wilmer, J. B. (2016). Nonverbal Communication of Similarity via the Torso: It's in the Bag. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior,40, 151-170.
11. McGuire, A., B., Gillath, O., & Vitevitch, M. (2016). Effects of mental resource availability on looming task performance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78, 107-113.
12. Gillath, O., & Collins, T. J. (2016). Unconscious desire: The affective and motivational aspects of subliminal sexual priming. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45(1), 5-20.
13. Sakaluk J. K., & Gillath, O. (2016). The causal effects of relational security and insecurity on condom use attitudes and acquisition behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45(2), 339-352.
14. Abubakar, A., ….Gillath, O.,… (2015). Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student's life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 34, 1-11.
15. Chun, S. D., Shaver, P. R., Gillath, O., Mathews, A., & Jorgensen, T. D. (2015). Testing a Dual-Process Model of Avoidant Defenses. Journal of Research in Personality, 55, 75-83.
16. Gillath, O., Gregersen, S., Canterberry, M., & Schmitt, D. P. (2014). The consequences of high levels of attachment security. Personal Relationships, 21, 497-514.
17. DeWall, C. N., Gillath, O., Pressman, S. D., Black, L. L., Bartz, J., Moskovitz, J., & Stetler, D. A. (2014). When the Love Hormone Leads to Violence: Oxytocin Increases Intimate Partner Violence Inclinations among High Trait Aggressive People. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 5, 691-697.
18. Canterberry, M., Gillath, O. (2013). Neural Evidence for a Multifaceted Model of Attachment Security. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 88, 232-240.
19. Gillath, O., Bahns, A. J., Ge, F., & Crandall, C. S., (2012). Shoes as a source of first impressions. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 423-430.
20. Collins, T. J., & Gillath, O. (2012). Attachment, Breakup Strategies, and Associated Outcomes: The Effects of Security Enhancement on the Selection of Breakup Strategies. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 210-222.
21. Schoemann, A. M., Gillath, O., & Sesko, A. K. (2012). Regrets, I have had a Few: Effects of dispositional and manipulated attachment on regret. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,1, 1-25.
22. Gillath, O., & Canterberry, M. (2012). Neural correlates of exposure to subliminal and supraliminal sexual cues. SCAN, 65, 1-13.
23. Kemeny, M. E., Foltz, C., Ekman, P., Jennings, P., Rosenberg, E. L., Gillath, O., Shaver, P. R., & Wallace, B. A. (2012). Contemplative/emotion training improves emotional life. Emotion, 12, 338-350.
24. Gillath, O., Landau, M. J., Selcuk, E., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2011). Effects of death salience and participant sex on cognitive, physiological, and behavioral responses to sexual stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1219-1224.
25. Birnbaum, G. E., Mikulincer, M., & Gillath, O. (2011). In and out of a Daydream: Attachment orientations, daily relationship quality, and sexual fantasies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1398-1410.
26. Gillath, O., Johnson, D. K., Selcuk, E., & Teel, C. (2011). Older Caregivers and Younger College Students: Comparing Network Management Skills, Attachment, and Well-Being During Transitions. Clinical Gerontologist, 34, 251-265.
27. Bodner, E., Sarel, A., Gillath, O., & Iancu, I. (2010). The relationship between type of insurance, time period and length of stay in psychiatric hospitals: The Israeli case. The Israeli Journal of Psychiatry, 47, 284-290.
28. Gillath, O., Sesko, A. K., Shaver, P. R., & Chun, S. D. (2010). Attachment, authenticity, and honesty: Dispositional and experimentally induced security can reduce self- and other-deception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 841-855.
29. Quirin, M., Gillath, O., Eggert, L., Pruessner, J., Kuestermann, E., & Kuhl, J. (2010). Adult attachment insecurity and hippocampal cell density. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 39-47.
30. Gillath, O., & Hart, J. J. (2010). The effects of psychological security and insecurity on political attitudes and leadership preferences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 122-134.
31. Gillath, O., Giesbrecht, B., & Shaver, P. R. (2009). Attachment, attention, and cognitive control: Attachment style and performance on general attention tasks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 647-654.
32. Noftle, E. E., & Gillath, O. (2009). Applying lessons from the person-situation debate to attachment theory and research. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 260-261.
33. Lavy, S., Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Gillath, O. (2009). Intrusiveness in romantic relationships: A cross-cultural perspective on imbalances between proximity and autonomy. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 26, 989-1008.
34. Gillath, O., Hart, J., Noftle, E. E., & Stockdale G. D. (2009). Development and validation of a state adult attachment measure (SAAM). Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 362-373.
35. Gillath, O., Adams, G., & Kunkel, A. D. (2009). Making interdisciplinary work in relationships research. Relationship Research News (IARR newsletter), 7, 10-13.
36. Sutin, A. R., & Gillath, O. (2009). Autobiographical memory phenomenology and content mediate attachment style and psychological distress. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 56, 351-364.
37. Schachner, D. A., Shaver. P. R., & Gillath, O. (2008). Attachment style and long-term singlehood. Personal Relationships, 15, 479-491.
38. Gillath, O., McCall, C., Shaver, P. R., & Blascovich, J. (2008). What can virtual reality teach us about prosocial tendencies in real and virtual environments? Media Psychology, 11, 259-282.