People

Nira Liberman

Nira Liberman is a social psychologist in TAU since 2001. She earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Tel Aviv University in 1996, was a post-doctoral research fellow in Columbia University and an assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She studies the interface between motivation and cognition, the effects of psychological distance on motivation, mental representation, and decision making in both intra-personal and interpersonal settings. She also conducts research on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and in particular attempts to understand it in terms of a deficient access to internal states – including one’s own sensations, emotion, and preferences. Prof. Liberman received the career trajectory award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Kadar award for excellence in research, and is the winner of the 2022 Rothschild prize. In addition, she is a fellow of the Association of Psychological Sciences and is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Aviv Emanuel

Aviv is a final year PhD student in psychology at the Tel-Aviv University. Aviv's research utilizes behavioral, cognitive, and TMS paradigms to examine mechanisms of motivation, effort-sensation, and effort-allocation over time. He received his BA in psychology and philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University, and MA in social psychology from the Tel-Aviv University. Aviv is also a personal trainer.

Maayan Trzewik

Maayan is a fourth year PhD student at the School of Psychological Sciences. She received her BA in psychology and musicology at the Hebrew University and her MA in social psychology at Tel Aviv University. Her research is focused on face generalization – the ability to recognize faces in various contexts. She is mostly interested in the influence of social motivation and construal level on this ability.

Guy Grinfeld

Guy is a third year PhD student at the School of Psychological Sciences, holding an MA in social psychology and a BA in psychology and philosophy, both from Tel-Aviv University. His research concerns social learning, how people integrate socially transmitted information with personally experienced information.

Roy Shulman

Roy is a first year PhD student, working both with Prof. Liberman and with Prof. Tal Eyal from Ben Gurion University. His research concerns the perceived objectivity of moral actions. Specifically, he examines whether the perceived objectivity of moral violations is dependent on attributes such as the moral foundation they might violate, individual differences regarding held moral foundations, and specific emotions associated with the violations.

Talya Rapp

Talya is an MA student, focusing on the effects of psychological distance on decision making. She is highly motivated to raise awareness of the impact social psychologists can make outside of academia, so she assists Prof. Liberman in managing the practicum course at the School of Psychological Sciences. Talya also joined the Behavioral Insights team at Medisafe after receiving her BA in psychology and humanities from Tel Aviv University and an UX design certificate from the Technion.

Tanya Rubinstein

Tanya is a second year MA student in the Interdisciplinary program at the School of Psychological Sciences and earned her B.Sc. in Psychology and Biology with an emphasis on Neuroscience from Tel Aviv University. She also has a background in civil society management, gender and LGBTQ research and activist movements.
Tanya is currently investigating people's perception of individuals and groups and how it changes with varying construal levels. She is also interested in Health Psychology and Social Neuroscience.

Roey Uday

Roey is a second year MA student in the social psychology program of the School of Psychological Sciences, holding a BA in psychology and economics from Tel-Aviv University. Currently, he is participating in the social information integration research project led by Prof. Liberman and the assistance of Guy Grinfeld.
Roey is also a teaching assistant in the BA statistics course.

Ori Levit

Ori is a second year MA student in the social psychology program at the School of Psychological Sciences. She completed her a BA in psychology and management from Tel Aviv university. Her research interests are psychological text analysis and information seeking. Her current work focuses on how different construal levels are reflected in language usage.

Alumni

Post Doctoral Fellows

Shiri Nussbaum (now Teaching Coordinator at the Open University of Israel)
Vered Halamish (now Lecturer, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University)
Maayan Katzir (now Senior Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Program in Conflict Resolution, Management and Negotiation, Bar-Ilan University)

PhD students

Tal Eyal (now Senior Lecturer, Psychology department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Orna Reuven (now clinical Psychologist)
Leah Borovoi (now Data scientist & researcher)
Elena Stephan (now Senior Lecturer, Psychology department, Bar-Ilan University)
Tali Nissan (now clinical Psychologist)
Oren Shapira (now Director of Behavioral Insights at Medisafe)
Ayelet Shpizeizen
Michael Gilead (now Lecturer, Psychology department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Hadar Ram (now Postdoctoral Researcher, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California)
Britt Hadar (Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University)