She received her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her academic research focuses on how context affects people, especially children and their development. Specifically, she researches the psychological effect of context change including traveling between contexts such as in case of immigration or negotiation between contexts like for minorities. She currently leads a longitudinal study about the relationship between values and social behavior among adolescents in educational context. She will hold a joint visiting scholar appointment with the Berkeley Institute and the School of Education at Berkeley..