Danit Sobol-Sarag

Research Associate, Health Team (Systems Group)

Health Policy

Research associate, Health Team, Systems Group, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB), Israel’s leading center for applied social research.

Danit Sobol-Sarag has worked at MJB since 2021. Her main areas of research are privacy and information exchange in mental health and the study of changes in insurees numbers in health plans. In addition to her main work in health policy research, Danit specializes in gender relations and political psychology, and specifically in inequality perceptions among disadvantaged group members. She also has extensive experience in quantitative research methods. In recent years, Danit was the Head of the Psychology Laboratories at Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology,  Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Danit holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Social Psychology, both from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

She can be contacted at [email protected]

Health Policy

Expanding the Sharing of Mental Health Information with Patients – Assessment of the Implementation of the Director General’s Circular
Danit Sobol-Sarag, Dr. Michal Laron
2025

The objective of this study was to examine the implementation of the Director General's Circular by the health plans[1] and its impact on digital accessibility of mental health information for service users.

Disabilities

Health Policy

Expanding the Sharing of Mental Health Information among Treatment Providers – Public Attitudes
Dr. Michal Laron, Danit Sobol-Sarag, Ellen Milshtein, Nadav Penn
2024

The objective of the study is to identify and characterize the attitudes of the Israeli public regarding the possibility of expanding the sharing of mental health information among treatment providers, with the goal of bringing those attitudes to the attention of decision-makers and having them taken into account when formulating policy on this issue.

Health Policy

The Project of Employing Health Integrators in the Regional Clusters: A Formative Evaluation
Hadar Samuel, Danit Sobol-Sarag
2024

The objectives of the research are: 1. Examine the integrators’ activities 2. Examine how the integrators perceive their role 3. Examine how the project is perceived in the regional clusters among cluster directors and other stakeholders Methods

Health Policy

Digital Press Coverage of Health Plans and Correlations with Transfers Between Plans
Shlomit Kagya, Danit Sobol-Sarag, Dr. Dan Even
2023

The Objectives of the study were: 1. Examine how the health plans are covered in the digital press, and whether there are any differences between them in key aspects of that coverage 2. Examine whether there is a relationship between the mention of a certain health plan in a report and its tone 3. Examine whether there is a relationship between transfer rates and the scope and tone of media coverage of transfer rates, with emphasis on termination rates, and in particular, whether the scope of coverage and the overall tone of the reports can explain trends in these transitions.

Journals articles

Sobol-Sarag, D., Schori-Eyal, N., Fernández, S., & Saguy, T. (2023). The irony of (romantic) harmony: Heterosexual romantic relationships can drive women’s justification of the gender hierarchy. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26(5), 1099-1118. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221100403

Hasson, Y., Amir, E., Sobol-Sarag, D., Tamir, M., & Halperin, E. (2022). Using performance art to promote intergroup prosociality by cultivating the belief that empathy is unlimited. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35235-z

Saguy, T., & Sobol-Sarag, D. (2022). The consequences of a sense of loss in common identity: An over-time examination. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 29(1), 71–84. https://doi.org/10.4473/TPM29.1.6

Schori-Eyal, N., Sobol-Sarag, D., Shuman, E., & Halperin, E. (2022). Shamed if you do, shamed if you don’t: Group-based moral emotions, accountability, and tolerance of enemy collateral casualties. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 750548. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.750548

Saguy, T., Sobol-Sarag, D., Halabi, S., Stroebe, K., Bruneau, E., & Hasan-Aslih, S. (2020). When a sense of “we” is lost: Investigating the consequences of a lost common identity among Druze in Israel. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(5), 667-675. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619884562

Books articles

Saguy, T., Schori-Eyal, N., Aslih, S., Sobol-Sarag, D., & Dovidio, J. F. (2017). The irony of harmony: Past and new developments. In L. Vezzali & S. Stathi (Eds.), Intergroup Contact Theory: Recent Developments and Future Directions (pp. 53–71). Routledge.