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64. Somer, E., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (in press). Stimming in a Reverie: A Case of Maladaptive Daydreaming Previously Diagnosed as Autism. Case Reports in Psychiatry.
63. Amir, D., Chefetz, R., Costanzo, A., Cundy, P., Joiner, T. E., Santoro, G., Robison, M., Şar, V., Schimmenti, A., Shahar, G., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Somer, E. (2025). Epilogue: The Formidable Human Need to “Not Know”. In: P. Cundy, & G. Shahar (Eds.), Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy? Routledge.
62. Chefetz, R. A., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Somer, E. (2025). When daydreaming becomes maladaptive: phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives. In: P. Cundy, & G. Shahar (Eds.), Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy? Routledge.
61. Theodor-Katz, N., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (in press). Where is my mind? The Daydreaming Characteristics Questionnaire is a new tool to differentiate absorptive daydreaming from mind wandering. Journal of Attention Disorders.
60. Tzioridou, S., Campillo-Ferrer, T., Cañas-Martín, J., Schlüter, L., Torres-Platas, S. G., Gott, J. A., Soffer-Dudek, N., Stumbrys, T., & Dresler, M. (2025). The Clinical Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 106011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106011
59. Soffer-Dudek, N., Somer, E., Spiegel, D., Chefetz, R., O'Neil, J., Dorahy, M. J., Cardeña, E., Mamah, D., Schimmenti, A., Musetti, A., Boon, S., van Dijke, A., Ross, C., Nijenhuis, E., Krause-Utz, A., Dell, P., Gold, S., Pietkiewicz, I., Silberg, J., Steele, K., Moskowitz, A., Draijer, N., Thomson, P., Barach, P., Kinsler, P., Maves, P., Şar, V., Kruger, C., Middleton, W. (in press). Maladaptive Daydreaming Should Be Included as a Dissociative Disorder in Psychiatric Manuals: A Position Paper. British Journal of Psychiatry.
58. Szachter, Y., Bar-Shachar, Y., Soffer-Dudek, N., Shahar, G., & Bar-Kalifa, E. (in press). A Double-Edged Sword: Self-Concept Clarity as a Prospective Predictor of Romantic Relationship Satisfaction in the Face of Conflict. Personality and Individual Differences, accepted manuscript.
57. Oh, H., Jacob, L., Soffer-Dudek, N., Shin, J. I., Smith, L., Besecker, M., Leaune, E., & Pickering, T. A. (in press). The synergy of depression and flourishing/languishing on suicidal thoughts and behaviors: Findings from a national sample of emerging adult students in higher education in the United States. PLOS One.
56. Hedderly, T., Somer, E., Eccles, C., Abdulsatar, F., Mitchell, C., Owen, T., Soffer-Dudek, N., Grose, C., Fernandez, T. V., Robinson, S., & Malik, O. (2024). Intense Imagery Movements may lead to Maladaptive Daydreaming: A Case Series and Literature Review. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, in press.
55. Oh, H., Pickering, T. A., Schiffman, J., LaBrie, J. W., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Pedersen, E. R. (in press). Web-based Personalized Normative Feedback to decrease stigma and increase intentions to seek help. Stigma & Health.
54. Soffer-Dudek, N. (accepted). Seeing is believing: implications of the dreamlike cognitive style for waking spontaneous thought and psychopathology. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, in press.
53. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Oh, H. (2024). Maladaptive daydreaming: A shortened assessment measure and its mental health correlates in a large United States sample. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 129, 152441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2023.152441
52. Bregman-Hai, N., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (in press). Post-traumatic symptoms and poor sleep are independent pathways to agency disruptions and dissociation: A longitudinal study with objective sleep assessment. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly: The Journal of Abnormal Psychology).
51. Chefetz, R. A., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Somer, E. (2023). When Daydreaming Becomes Maladaptive: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 37(4), 319-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2023.2246058
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50. Oh, H., Karcher, N., Soffer-Dudek, N., Koyanagi, A., Besecker, M., & DeVylder, J. (2023). Distress related to psychotic experiences: Enhancing the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview psychosis screen. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, in press. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mpr.1977
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47. Herscu, O., Somer, E., Federman, A., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2023). Mindfulness Meditation and Self-Monitoring Reduced Maladaptive Daydreaming Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Self-Guided Web-Based Program. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000790 Full text here.
46. Pinus, M., Lassri, D., Rahamim, O., Schiller, M., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Shahar, G. (2023). Identifying state self-criticism subscales within the Brief Symptoms Inventory: Analyses of data from Israeli young adults. Personality and Individual Differences.
45. Zadik, M., Bregman-Hai, N., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (in press). Are You “In the Zone” Or “Disconnected”? Flow, Dissociative Absorption and Their Adaptive and Maladaptive Correlates. Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition. Full text here.
44. Lassri, D.,* Bregman-Hai, N.,* Soffer-Dudek, N., & Shahar, G. (in press). The Interplay Between Childhood Sexual Abuse, Self-Concept Clarity, and Dissociation: A Resilience-Based Perspective. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
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43. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Theodor-Katz, N. (2022). Maladaptive Daydreaming: epidemiological data on a newly identified syndrome. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 871041. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.871041. Full text here.
42. Theodor-Katz, N., Somer, E., Maaravi Hesseg, R., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2022). Could immersive daydreaming underlie a deficit in attention? The prevalence and characteristics of Maladaptive daydreaming in individuals with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 78(11), 2309-2328. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23355 Open-access full text here.
41. Somer, E., Cardeña, E., Catelan, R. F., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2023). Reality shifting: Psychological features of an emergent online daydreaming culture. Current Psychology, 42, 11415–11427. Full-text here.
40. Wen, H., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Somer, E. (2024). Daily Feelings and the Affective Valence of Daydreams in Maladaptive Daydreaming: A Time-lag Analysis. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 11(4), 447-460.
39. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Somer, E. (2022). Maladaptive daydreaming is a dissociative disorder: Supporting evidence and theory. In M. J. Dorahy, S. N. Gold, & J. A. O’Neil (Eds.), Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: Past, present, future (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis, pp. 547-559.
38. Salomon-Small, G., Somer, E., Harel-Schwarzmann, M., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2021). Maladaptive Daydreaming and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A confirmatory and exploratory investigation of shared mechanisms. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 136, 343-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.02.017
37. Buchnik-Daniely, Y., Vannikov-Lugassi, M., Shalev, H., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2021). The path to dissociative experiences: A direct comparison of different etiological models. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 28(5), 1091-1102. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2559
36. Finkenberg, D., Shalev, H., Vannikov-Lugassi, M., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2023). Brief Report: No evidence for Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) use as explaining the Relationship Between Sleep Experiences and Psychopathological Distress. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 10(1), 50–61. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000275
35. Vannikov-Lugassi, M., Shalev, H., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2021). From brooding to detachment: Rumination longitudinally predicts an increase in depersonalization and derealization. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94 (S2), 321-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12279
34. Soffer-Dudek, N., Somer, E., Abu-Rayya, H. M., Metin, B., & Schimmenti, A. (2020). Different cultures, similar daydream addiction? An examination of the cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9(4), 1056–1067. DOI: 10.1556/2006.2020.00080. Full-text available here.
33. Soffer-Dudek, N. (2019). Are lucid dreams good for us? Are we asking the right question? A call for caution in lucid dream research. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13:1423. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.01423. Full-text available here.
32. Bregman-Hai, N., Kessler, Y., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2020). Who wrote that? Automaticity and reduced sense of agency in individuals prone to dissociative absorption. Consciousness & Cognition, 78. Preprint available here.
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31. Soffer-Dudek, N. (2019). Dissociative Absorption, Mind-Wandering, and Attention Deficit Symptoms: Associations with Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 51-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12186
30. Soffer-Dudek, N., Todder, D., Shelef, L., Deutsch, I., & Gordon, S. (2019). A neural correlate for common trait dissociation: Decreased EEG connectivity is related to dissociative absorption. Journal of Personality, 87, 295-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12391
29. Vannikov-Lugassi, M., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018). No time like the present: thinking about the past and the future is related to state dissociation among individuals with high levels of psychopathological symptoms. Frontiers in Psychology: 9, 2465.
28. Rozen, N., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018). Dreams of teeth falling out: an empirical investigation of physiological and psychological correlates. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1812.
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27. Bregman-Hai, N., Abitbul-Gordon, S., Deutsch, I., Garbi, D., Shelef, L., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018). Leave Everything to the Imagination: Cognitive Functioning of Individuals High in Dissociative Absorption and Imaginative Involvement. Journal of Research in Personality, 76, 129-138.
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26. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Somer, E. (2018). Trapped in a Daydream: Daily Elevations in Maladaptive Daydreaming Are Associated with Daily Psychopathological Symptoms. Frontiers in Psychiatry 9:194. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00194.
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25. Reznik, D., Gertner-Saad, L., Even-Furst, H., Henik, A., Ben Mair, E., Shechter-Amir, D., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018). Oneiric synesthesia: preliminary evidence for the occurrence of synesthetic-like experiences during sleep-inertia. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5(4), 374-383.
24. Aviram, L., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018). Lucid Dreaming: intensity, but not frequency, is inversely related to psychopathology. Frontiers in Psychology. 9:384. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00384
23. Alfasi, D., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018). Does Alexithymia moderate the relation between stress and general sleep experiences? Personality and Individual Differences, 122, 87-92. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.10.014
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22. Vannikov-Lugassi, M., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018). Rumination and Dissociation: The Mediating Role of Poor Sleep Quality and Pre-Sleep Cognitions. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5(2), 185-211.
21. Soffer-Dudek, N. (2017). Arousal in Nocturnal Consciousness: How Dream- and Sleep- Experiences May Inform Us of Poor Sleep Quality, Stress, and Psychopathology. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 733. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00733
20. Somer, E., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Ross, C. A. (2017). The comorbidity of Daydreaming Disorder (Maladaptive Daydreaming). Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 205(7), 525-530.
19. Somer, E., Soffer-Dudek, N., Ross, C. A., & Halpern, N. (2017). Maladaptive daydreaming: proposed diagnostic criteria and their assessment with a structured clinical interview. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice: 4(2), 176-189.
18. Soffer-Dudek, N., Shelef, L., Oz, I., Levkovsky, A., Erlich, I., & Gordon, S. (2017). Absorbed in Sleep: Dissociative Absorption as a Predictor of Sleepiness Following Sleep Deprivation in two High-Functioning Samples. Consciousness and Cognition, 48, 161-170.
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17. Soffer-Dudek., N. (2017). Daily elevations in dissociative absorption and depersonalization in a non-clinical sample are related to daily stress and psychopathological symptoms. Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 80(3), 265-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2016.1247622
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16. Soffer-Dudek, N. (2016). Sleep-related experiences longitudinally predict elevation in psychopathological distress in young adult Israelis exposed to terrorism. Personality and Individual Differences (Dr. Sybil Eysenck Young Researcher Award special issue), 100, 131-139.
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15. Soffer-Dudek, N., Lassri, D., Soffer-Dudek, N., & Shahar, G. (2015). Dissociative Absorption: An Empirically Unique, Clinically Relevant, Dissociative Factor. Consciousness & Cognition, 36, 338-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.07.013
14. De Marcas, G. S., Soffer-Dudek, N., Dollberg, S., Bar-Haim, Y., & Sadeh, A. (2015). IV. Reactivity and sleep in infants: a longitudinal objective assessment. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 80, 49–69.
13. Soffer-Dudek, N. (2014). Dissociation and Dissociative Mechanisms in Panic Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, and Depression: A Review and Heuristic Framework. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 1, 243-270. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000023
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12. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Shahar, G. (2014/2015). Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies Concerning Internal Distress, External Stress and Dissociative Trajectories. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 34, 3-24.
11. Lassri, D., Soffer-Dudek, N., Lerman, S. F., Rudich, Z., & Shahar, G. (2013). Self criticism confers vulnerability to psychopathology in the face of perceived stress related to missile attacks: three longitudinal studies. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 6, 221-234.
10. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Sadeh, A. (2013). Dream recall frequency and unusual dream experiences in early adolescence: Longitudinal links to behavior problems. Journal of Research in Adolescence, 23, 635-651.
9. Soffer-Dudek, N., Sadeh, A., Dahl, R. E., & Rosenblat-Stein, S. (2011). Poor sleep quality predicts deficient emotion information processing over time in early adolescence. Sleep, 34, 1499-1508.
8. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Shahar, G. (2011). Daily stress interacts with trait dissociation to predict sleep-related experiences in young adults. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 719-729.
7. Soffer-Dudek, N., Shalev, H., Shiber, A., & Shahar, G. (2011). Role of severe psychopathology in sleep-related experiences: A pilot study. Dreaming, 21, 148-156.
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6. Soffer-Dudek, N., Wertheim, R., & Shahar, G. (2011). Lucid dreaming and resilience in the face of exposure to terrorism. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24, 125-128.
5. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Shahar, G. (2010). Effect of exposure to terrorism on sleep-related experiences in Israeli young adults. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 73, 264-276.
4. Soffer-Dudek, N., & Shahar, G. (2009). What are sleep-related experiences? Associations with transliminality, psychological distress, and life stress. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 891-904.
3. Soffer, N., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Shahar, G. (2008). The relationship of childhood emotional abuse and neglect to depressive vulnerability and low self-efficacy. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 1, 151-162.
2. Shahar, G., Soffer, N., & Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (2008). Sociotropy, Autonomy, and self-criticism are three distinguishable dimensions of cognitive-personality vulnerability. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 22, 219-227.
1. Soffer, N., & Shahar, G. (2007). Evidence-based psychiatric practice? Long live the (individual) difference. Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 44, 301-308.