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Dr. Yael Sidi , Senior Lecturer

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The Open University of Israel Department of Education and Psychology One University Road P.O.B. 808 Raanana 4353701, Israel
Email:yaelsi@openu.ac.il

Additional Information

2017
PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Technion- Israel Institue of Technology
2012
MSc in Cognitive Psychology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2008
MA in Neurorehabilitation​ Psychology, Tel Aviv-Yafo College
2004
BA in Psychology, Haifa University
2018
Assistant Prof. Education and Psychology, The Open University of Israel

Segal, D. & Sidi, Y. (2026). Biases in Estimating Self and Others' Second Language Vocabulary Knowledge. JEP: General. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001909

Brann, A. & Sidi, Y. (2025). Metacognitive scaffolding for digital reading and mind-wandering in adults with and without ADHD. Learning and Instruction, 95, 102051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102051

Sidi, Y. & Ackerman, R. (2024). Opting Out as an Untapped Resource in Instructional Design: Review and Implications. Educational Psychology Review, 36(41). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09879-w

Shoval. R., Gronau, N., Sidi, Y. & Makovski, T. (2023). Objects' perceived meaningfulness predicts both subjective memorability judgments and actual memory performance. Visual Cognition, 31(6),472-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2023.2288433

Hoch, E., Sidi, Y., Ackerman, R., Hoogerheide, V., & Scheiter, K. (2023). Comparing Mental Effort, Difficulty, and Confidence Appraisals in Problem-Solving: A Metacognitive Perspective. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09779-5

Sidi, Y., Shamir-Inbal, T., & Eshet-Alkalai, Y. (2023). From face-to-face to online: Teachers' perceived experiences in online distance teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. Computers & Education, 201, 104831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104831

Sidi, Y., Blau, I., Shamir‐Inbal, T. (2022). Mapping active and collaborative learning in higher education through annotations in hyper‐video by learning analytics. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(6), 1752-1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12714 

Geller, S, Sidi, Y., Handelzalts, J., & , Levy, S. (2021). Body Image and Religion: Explicit and Implicit Attitudes among three denominations of Jewish women. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(3), 418–424. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000450 

Sidi, Y., Glikson, E., & Cheshin, A. (2021). Do you get what I mean?!? The undesirable outcomes of (ab)using paralinguistic cues in computer-mediated communication. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658844 

Sidi, Y., Geller, S, Sinnib, A. A., Levy, S., & Handelzalts, J. E. (2020). Body image among Muslim women in Israel: Exploring religion and sociocultural pressures. Women & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2020.1802399 

Sahar, T., Sidi, Y. & Makovski, T. (2020). A Metacognitive Perspective of Visual Working Memory With Rich Complex Objects. Frontiers in Psychology, 11,179. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00179 

Sidi, Y., Torgovitsky, I., Soibelman, D., Miron-Spektor, E, & Ackerman, R. (2020). You May Be More Original Than You Think: Predictable Biases in Self-Assessment of Originality. Acta Psychologica, 203, Article 103002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.103002 

Handelzalts, J., Geller, S., Sidi, Y., & Levy, S. (2019). Religion and appearance investment: The mediating role of internalization of socio-cultural pressures, in Jewish Israeli Women. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 23, 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2019.1705777

Sidi, Y., Blau, I., & Eshet-Alkalai, Y. (2019). How is the Ethical Dissonance Index Affected by Technology, Academic Dishonesty Type, and Individual Differences? British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(6), 3300-3314. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12735 

Geller, S., Handelzalts, J., Gelfat, R., Arbel, S., Sidi, Y., & Levy, S. (2018). Exploring body image, strength of faith, and media exposure among three denominations of Jewish Women. Current Psychology, 39, 1774-1784. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-9876-9

Yagil, Y., Geller, S., Levy, S., Sidi, Y., & Aharoni, S. (2018). Body-image, quality of life and psychological distress: A comparison between kidney transplant patients and a matching healthy sample. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 23(4),424-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2017.1400668

Sidi, Y., Ackerman, R., & Erez, A. (2018). Feeling happy and (over)confident: The role of positive affect in metacognitive processes. Cognition and Emotion, 32(4), 876-884. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1346501. 

Sidi, Y., Shpigelman, M., Zalmanov, H., & Ackerman, R. (2017). Understanding metacognitive inferiority on screen by exposing cues for depth of processing. Learning and Instruction, 51, 61-73. 

Sidi, Y., Ophir, Y., & Ackerman, R. (2016). Generalizing screen inferiority - Does the medium, screen versus paper, Affect performance even with brief tasks? Metacognition and Learning, 11(1), 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-015-9150-6. 

Yagil, Y., Geller, S., Sidi, Y., Tirosh, Y., Katz, P., & Nakache, R. (2014). The implications of body-image dissatisfaction among kidney-transplant recipients. Psychology, health & medicine, 20(8), 955-962. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2014.972417 

Thompson, V. A., Ackerman, R., Sidi, Y., Ball, L. J., Pennycook, G., & Prowse Turner, J. A. (2013). The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency in the monitoring and control of reasoning: Reply to Alter, Oppenheimer, and Epley. Cognition, 28(2), 256-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.03.003. 

Research
Metacognitive monitoring and control
Metacognition in digital learning
Metacognition and linguistics
Complex problem solving and text 
Comprehension