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Social Psychologist
A 1971 model, Married+3
Currently living in Ramat Sharet, Jerusalem
ariel@midgam.com
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| Employment History |
| 2008 - current |
Owner & CEO, Midgam Project Web Panel (www.midgampanel.com)
The panel enables Web infrastructure for academic and market research in Israel.
In accoradance to client needs we provide questionnaire building, programming, data-gathering, data-analysis and report writing.
Among our clients in the Academia:
Prof. Mario Mikulincer,
Prof. Camil Fuchs,
Prof. David Mazursky,
Prof. Yael Steinhart,
Prof. Eran Halperin and others;
Among our clients in the Business Sector:
Kelim Shluvim,
Rotem Research,
Rushinek Strategy,
Zeta-tools,
Feelternet
and others.
Working as subcontractors we provided research services for large commercial companies, Governmental agencies and NGOs'.
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| 2005 - current |
Owner & CEO, Midgam Project (www.midgam.com)
The Midgam Project is a privately owned internet platform designed
to disseminate psychological research and knowledge to the general community in Israel.
The Midgam.com website allows registered users to complete online Hebrew versions of questionnaires in a wide array
of psychological fields (e.g., social, organizational, developmental and clinical psychology).
Most questionnaires have been published in leading peer reviewed journals and special care
is taken that all questionnaires would maintain their strong psychometric properties
on the website. Currently (Jan 2013), Midgam.com has more than 100,000 registered users of
and more than 400,000 questionnaires have been completed on the site.
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| 2005 - 2010 |
Consultant to National Authority For Measurement and Evaluation in Education (RAMA)
Member of evaluation teams to various national education system projects. Among those projects I was involved in the evaluation of
the implementation of Shoshani Reform,
the evaluation of SHILUV project,
the evaluation of SHOHAREY SHINUY project and the
evaluation of LEV21 project.
I was involved mainly in data analysis and report writing phases.
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| 2004 - 2007 |
Lecturer, Department of Education, Ben Gurion University
Social Psychology (Eelective course)
Naive Theories (Elective seminar)
Group Processes (Elective seminar) |
| 2002 - 2003 |
Psychologist, HR-Vision
The company developed software for personnel-selection purposes.
I helped in the development of the software, Marketing to HR divisions of big israeli companies
and helped the clients implement it and provided them with professional support.
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| Publications |
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Ayalon, A. & Sagy, S. (2011).
Acculturation Attitudes and Perceptions of Collective Narratives: The case of Israeli-Arab Youth.
Youth and Society, 43(3), 819-844.
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Moulding, R., Anglim, J., Nedeljkovic, M., Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Ayalon, A. (2011).
The Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ):Examination in non-clinical samples and development of a short version.
Assessment, 18(3), 357-374.
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Sagy, S., Ayalon, A. & Diab, H. (2011).
Perceptions of the Narrative of the “Other” among Arab and Jewish Adolescents in Israel:
Between Peace Talks and Violent Events. Intercultural Education, 22(2), 191-206.
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Ayalon, A. & Sagy, S. (2010). Acculturation Attitudes among Israeli-Arab youth: a gender perspective.
In S. Abu-Rabia-Queder & N. Weiner-Levy (Eds.). Palestinian Women in Israel: Identity, Power Relations and Coping Strategies.
Jerusalem: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.(Hebrew)
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Ayalon, A. & Sagy, S. (2010). Acculturation patterns among Palestinian citizens of Israel: A gender perspective.
Social Issues in Israel, 5, 55-73.(Hebrew)
(pdf)
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Shani, E. & Ayalon, A. (2009).
The wizard of "ease": Sense of coherence, stressful life events and the "ease-dis-ease" continuum.
Unpublished Manuscript.
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Shani, E., Ayalon, A. Abu-Hammad, I. & Sikron, F. (2003).
What picture is worth a thousand words?
A comparative evaluation of a burn prevention programme by type of medium in Israel.
Health Promotion International, 18 (4), 361-371.
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Shani, E., Ayalon, A., Abu-Hammad, I., Friger, M. & Rosenberg, L. (2000).
A burn prevention program as a long-term investment:
trends in burn injuries among Jews and Bedouin Children in Israel.
Burns, 26, 171-177.
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Shani, E., Rachkovsky, E., Ayalon, A. & Rosenberg, L. (2000).
The role of health education versus safety regulations in generating skin
cancer preventive behavior among outdoor workers in Israel: an exploratory photosurvey.
Health Promotion International, 15 (4), 333-339.
(pdf)
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| Presentations |
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Ayalon, A. (2013). Perceptions of Socio-Structural Relations between Groups, Acculturation and Sense of Coherence among Minority Adolescents: The Israeli Case.
Thinking Salutogenesis: 30 years of theory, reseach and practice; Beer Sheva, Israel.
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Ayalon, A. (2009). Ethical ideologies and attitudes toward national group narratives.
EASP small group meeting on Resolving Societal Conflicts and Building Peace:
Socio-Psychological Dynamics Jerusalem, Israel.
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Moulding, R., Anglim, J., Nedeljkovic, M., Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Ayalon, A. (2009).
A re-examination of the structure of the obsessive beliefs questionnaire (OBQ).
Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapies, Perth, Australia.
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Ayalon A. (2008). Motivation and response in self-report questionnaires.
Israeli Psychometric Association, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Doron, G., Moulding, R., Nedeljkovic, M., Kyrios, M., & Ayalon, A. (2008).
Sensitivity of self structure and OCD symptoms in a student sample.
International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Rome, Italy.
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Ayalon, A. & Sagy, S. (2007). Acculturation patterns and atittudes toward the Israeli-Arab conflict among Palestinian citizens of Israel youth.
Israeli Sociological Society, Haifa, Israel.
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Ayalon, A. & Sagy, S. (2007). Acculturation Strategies and attitudes toward collective narratives:
the case of Palestinian youth in Israel.
International Society of Political Psychology, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Ayalon, A. & Sagy, S. (2006). Acculturation Attitudes among Israeli-Arab youth: a gender perspective.
Palestinian Women in Israel: Identity, Power Relations and Coping Strategies. Jerusalem: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
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| Miscellaneous |
| Languages |
Hebrew, English and Spanish
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| Computers |
Basics: Windows, MS Office
Statistics: SPSS, Statistica
Databases: MySQL, MS Access
Web Languages: HTML, CSS, ASP, SQL, vbScript, JavaScript
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