Seit 2025: Research Fellow
AE Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität

Seit 2023: Postdoc
Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Universität Haifa, Israel

2018-2022: Promotion
Bar-Ilan-Universität, Ramat Gan, Israel
Thesis: In and Out of Synchrony – Behavioral and Physiological Dynamics of Dyadic Interpersonal Coordination

2010-2012: M.A. Klinische Psychologie
Hebräische Universität Jerusalem, Israel
Thesis: Infant’s Approach and Inhibition as Predictors of Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms in Children – Main and Moderated Effects

2007-2009: Bachelorkurse Psychologie
Universität Tel-Aviv, Israel

2001-2004: B.Sc. Angewandte Mathematik
Bar-Ilan-Universität, Ramat Gan, Israel

• Gordon I, Tomashin A, Mayo O (2024) A theory of flexible multimodal synchrony. Psychol Rev 132(3):680-718. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000495
   
• Mayo O, Shamay-Tsoory S (2024) Dynamic mutual predictions during social learning: A computational and interbrain model. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 157:105513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105513
   
• Mayo O, Horesh D, Korisky A, Milstein N, Zadok E, Tomashin A, Gordon I (2023) I feel you: Prepandemic physiological synchrony and emotional contagion during COVID-19. Emotion 23(3):753-763. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001122
   
• Horesh D, Milstein N, Tomashin A, Mayo O, Gordon I (2022) Pre-pandemic electrodermal activity predicts current COVID-related fears: household size during lockdown as a moderating factor. Stress 25(1):22-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2021.2006179
   
• Gordon I, Horesh D, Milstein N, Tomashin A, Mayo O, Korisky A (2021) Pre-pandemic autonomic nervous system activity predicts mood regulation expectancies during COVID-19 in Israel. Psychophysiology 58(11):e13910. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13910
   
• Mayo O, Lavidor M, Gordon I. Interpersonal autonomic nervous system synchrony and its association to relationship and performance - a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) Physiol Behav 235:113391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113391
   
• Mayo O, Gordon I. In and out of synchrony-Behavioral and physiological dynamics of dyadic interpersonal coordination (2020) Psychophysiology 57(6):e13574. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13574