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E. Refoua

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Open access Sep 2026

Psychometric validation of an ultra-short form test anxiety inventory: initial step towards a brief screening measure

Background Test anxiety affects up to 40% of university students and is associated with academic failure, depression and suicidal ideation, yet clinical screening and high-frequency research designs remain hampered by the burden of 20-item instruments such as the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI). Although brief measures ex...

E. Refoua, M. Bar, Hagar Falk et al. · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Sep 2026

AI-Mediated Mental Health Support: The Role of Attachment Orientation and Psychological Distress

GenAI is position as an accessible, low-barrier resource disproportionately used by distressed individuals, and a need for systematic evaluation of the safety, crisis-response quality, and clinical-displacement risks of consumer-facing AI use is pointed to.

Dorit Hadar Shoval, E. Refoua, K. Gigi et al. · 1 citation
Open access Sep 2026

The paradox of pleasing: therapeutic recognition and the limits of conversational AI

CAI’s inability to provide necessary resistance or survive aggression prevents the transformative psychological development found in the human therapeutic encounter, and it is suggested that the encounter with the paradox of pleasing ultimately serves to foreground the unique and indispensable nature of human therapeut...

Yuval Haber, E. Refoua, Z. Elyoseph et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Deep Persona: A Psychologically Grounded Architecture and Evaluation Framework for Role-Playing Agents and Simulations

Deep Persona is introduced, a psychologically grounded, three-layered architecture that organizes personas into hierarchical levels of observable expression, latent beliefs, and core motivational drives, for constructing highly convincing role-playing agents.

Rotem Dror, Zohar Elyoseph, Yuval Haber et al. · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Sep 2026

Generative AI emotion recognition from bodily gestures and vocal tone reveals modality-specific performance and positivity bias

GenAI models exhibit a non-humanlike social-cognitive profile, excelling with positive emotions but struggling with the negative content, highlighting the risks of integrating GenAI into sensitive fields and underscoring the need for continued validation.

D. Piterman, H. Dery, K. Bar et al. · 0 citations

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