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Short Biography
Prof. Shoshana Shiloh received her Ph.D. in Tel Aviv University in 1984 and completed her postdoctoral training at Boston University. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology since 1990, and a visiting scientist at the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan (1992-3), and at the Social and Behavioral Research Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (2005-6). Prof. Shiloh has served in several national and international committees on Health Psychology issues, and is an associate editor in the Journal of Genetic Counseling.
Fields of Interest
Health psychology - Motivations for attending medical screening tests in general, and genetic tests in particular; Psychological outcomes of genetic counseling - perceived personal control and coping; Behavioral decision making of patients and medical information seeking; Risk perception and its influence on health behaviors; Cognitive aspects of pain and the impacts of patient-controlled analgesia.
Selected publications
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Shiloh, S. Genetic counseling: A new area of interest for psychologists. (1996). Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 27, 475-486. |
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Shiloh, S., Berkenstadt, M., Miran, N., Bat-Miriam - Katznelson, M. and Goldman, B. (1997). Mediating effects of perceived personal control in coping with a health threat: The case of genetic counseling. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27, 1146-1173. |
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Shiloh, S., Ben-Sinai, R., & Keinan, G. (1999). Effects of controllability, predictability, and information-seeking style on interest in predictive genetic testing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1187-1195. |
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Shiloh, S., Rashuk-Rosenthal, D., Benyamini, Y. (2002). Illness attributions: their structure and associations with other illness cognitions and perceptions of control. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 25, 373-394. |
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Shiloh, S., Zukerman, G., Butin, B., Deutch, A., Yardeni, I., Benyamini Y., & Beilin, B. (2003). Postoperative patient controlled analgesia (PCA): How much control and how much analgesia? Psychology and Health, 18, 753-770. |
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Shiloh, S., & Ilan, S. (2005). To test or not to test? Moderators of the relationship between women's breast cancer risk perceptions and their interests in predictive genetic testing. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 28, 467-479. |
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Shiloh, S., & Orgler-Shoob, M. (2006). Monitoring: A dual-function coping strategy. Journal of Personality, 74, 457-478. |
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Shiloh, S., Gerad, L., and Goldman, B. Patients' information needs and decision-making processes: what can be learned from genetic counselees? (2006). Health Psychology, 25, 211-219. |