SELECTED POPULAR PRESS COVFEFE
2022
"Cutting back on final drink of day ‘could improve brain health’", The Guardian, March 2022"Just one drink per day can shrink your brain, study says", CNN, March 2022
2021
"Scientists identify the region of the brain associated with risk-taking - and it could explain why some people are more likely to smoke and drink", Daily Mail, January 20212020
"Loneliness can help grow parts of brain tied to imagination, study finds", CNN, December 2020"This Is How Loneliness Actually Changes Your Brain", Huffington Post, December 2020
"Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything?", Vox, October 2020
2019
"Extreme male brain theory of autism overturned as huge study finds no link between testosterone and lack of empathy", Newsweek, September 2019"Study challenges idea that autism is caused by an overly masculine brain", Science Magazine, September 2019
"Are bigger brains smarter? Barely, says study led by Penn scholar.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 2019
2018
"Bigger brains are smarter; but not by much", Penn Today, November 2018"Experts are good at betting which scientific experiments can replicate", The Economist, August 2018
"More social science studies just failed to replicate. Here’s why this is good", Vox, August 2018
“In psychology and other social sciences, many studies fail the reproducibility test”, NPR, August 2018
"Attempt to replicate major social scientific findings of past decade fails”, The Guardian, August 2018
“Online bettors can sniff out weak psychology studies”, The Atlantic, August 2018
“The science behind social science gets shaken up – again”, WIRED, August 2018
“Five ways high testosterone impacts men's behavior”, Newsweek, July 2018
“Is testosterone the luxury hormone?”, Forbes, July 2018
“Personality predicts musical preference”, The Economist, April 2018
2017
"The Mistake Hormone", The Penn Gazette , November 2017"One Facebook ‘like’ is all it takes to target adverts, academics find", The Guardian, November 2017
"Testosterone makes men more impulsive", The Economist, August 2017
"Man can be so hormonal", New York Times, June 2017
"Nothing worse at work than a man convinced he’s right", Chicago Tribune, May 2017
"This is a man’s brain on testosterone", CBS Money watch, May 2017
"Testosterone supplements may impair decision-making", Newsweek , May 2017
2016
"Everything you’ve heard about sniffing oxytocin might be wrong", New Scientist, May 2016"How scientists fell in and out of love with the hormone oxytocin", Vox, April 2016
"The impact of acute stress on decision-making" (Hebrew), Galei Zahal, April 2016
"A far from dismal outcome", The Economist , March 2016
"Can Science’s Reproducibility Crisis Be Reproduced?", The Chronicle of Higher Education , March 2016
"A hormone that makes men more loyal?" (Spanish) , W-Radio, Colombia, February 2016
2015
"The Weak Science Behind the Wrongly Named Moral Molecule", The Atlantic, November 2015"Oxytocin Acts as a Love Hormone? Nah. The science reveals a much subtler effect on human behavior", Minn Post , November 2015
2010
"The Algo-Rhythm of Kutiman", Ha'aretz (Hebrew), November 2010"A New Algrhythm to Create Musical Meshups", Not Only Camels: Israeli Innovation News, November 2010