The main direction of research in the acculturation field is the way of cultural appropriation among different groups of migrants (gifted and normotypical).

The area of interest extends to the level of perception of culture, through its intellectual awareness, which include special anticipatory image of socio-cultural processes. A key feature of her approach to acculturation is a reinterpretation of J. Berry’s theory through the lens of cognitive psychology and a dissection of his key behavioral strategies (assimilation, marginalization, separation, and integration).

With Seth Schwartz and the Culture, Family, and Health Laboratory she studies cultural stress, optimism and pessimism, and specific of mental health of migrants, who comes to the USA and Israel from different countries.