ד"ר דנה מקדוויט שי

Zamir, O., Szepsenwol, O., & Lassri, D., Shahar, B., & Shai, D. (Accepted). The Multifaceted Role of Empathy in the Transmission of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms between Parents. Family Process

Fogel-Yaakobi, S., Golland, Y., Levit-Binnun, N., Borelli, J.L., Mikulincer, M., & Shai, D. (Accepted). The Moderating Role of Attachment in the Association between Physiological Synchrony in Married Couples and Supportive Behavior in the transition to parenthood. Psychophysiology.

Waldman-Levi, A., Bundy, A. & Shai D. (2022). Playfulness development in early childhood: A longitudinal study of typically developing children. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(5), 7605205020

Shai, D., Laor, A., Spencer, R., Sleed, M., Baradon, T., Nolte, T., & Fonagy, P. (2022). Parental Embodied Mentalizing predicts infant cognitive and language development in longitudinal follow-up. Frontiers in Psychology

Ierardi, E., Dascalu, A., Shai, D., Spencer, R., Crugnola, C.R. (2022). Parental embodied mentalizing: associations with maternal depression, anxiety, verbal mentalizing, and maternal styles of interaction. Journal of Affective Disorders

Goldstein, A., Borelli, J.L., & Shai, D. (2022). In her shoes: Fathers' partner reflective functioning promotes family-level resilience to maternal depression. Development and Psychopathology.

Afek, E., Rachel Lev-Wiesel. R., Federman, D., & Shai, D. (in press). The Mediating role of Parental Embodied Mentalizing in the Longitudinal Association between Prenatal Spousal Support and Infant Emotion Recognition. Infancy

Witte, A.M., de Moor, M.H.M., Szepsenwol, O., van IJzendoorn, M.H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., Shai, D. (2021). Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security. Infant Bahavior and Development, 65, 101653

Szepsenwol, O., Shai, D., Zamir, O., & Simpson, J.A. (2021). The Effects of Morbidity-Mortality and Economic Unpredictability on Parental Distress: A Life History Approach. Evolution and Human Behavior. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(1), 189-209

Væver, M. S., Cordes, K., Stuart, A. C., Tharner, A., Shai, D., Spencer, R., & Smith-Nielsen, J. (2020). Associations of maternal sensitivity and embodied mentalizing with infant-mother attachment security at one year in depressed and non-depressed dyads. Attachment & Human Development, 1-18.‏ Development

Borelli, J. L., Slade, A., Pettit, C., & Shai, D. (2020). I “get” you, babe: Reflective functioning in partners transitioning to parenthood. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(6), 1785-1805

Avdi, E., Amiran, K., Baradon, T., Broughton, C., Sleed, M., Spencer, R., & Shai, D. (2020). Studying the process of psychoanalytic parent–infant psychotherapy: Embodied and discursive aspects. Infant Mental Health Journal, 41(5), 589-602

- Witte, A.M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., MH van IJzendoorn, M.H., Szepsenwol, O., & Shai, D. (2020). Predicting infant–father attachment: the role of pre-and postnatal triadic family alliance and paternal testosterone levels. Attachment & human development, 22 (6), 653-667.

- Shai, D. (2018). The Inconsolable Doll Task: Prenatal Coparenting Behavioral Dynamics Under Stress Predicting Child Cognitive Development at 18 Months. Infant Behavior and Development.

- Shai, D. & Meins, E. (2018). Parental Embodied Mentalizing and its Relation to Mind-Mindedness, Sensitivity, and Attachment Security. Infancy, 23(6), 857–872.

- Shai, D. & Belsky, J. (2017). Parental Embodied Mentalizing: How the nonverbal dance between parents and infants predicts children’s socio-emotional functioning. Attachment and Human Development, 19(2), 191-219..

- Shai, D., & Belsky, J. (2011). When Words just won’t do: Introducing Parental Embodied Mentalising. Child Development Perspectives, 5(3), 173-180.