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Keren Sharvit

Keren Sharvit

I am the head of the international MA Program for Peace and Conflict Management and faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. My research interests include intergroup conflicts, societal beliefs and ideologies, effects of exposure to violence and terrorism, motivations for violence and extremism, and moral reasoning and moral emotions in situations of intergroup conflict as well as processes of avoiding them.

Primary Interests:

  • Aggression, Conflict, Peace
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Motivation, Goal Setting
  • Political Psychology
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping

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Other Publications:

  • Halperin, E., Sharvit, K, & Gross, J. (2011). Emotion and emotion regulation in intergroup conflict – An appraisal based framework. In Bar-Tal, D. (ed.), Intergroup conflicts and their resolution: Social psychological perspective (pp. 83-103). New York: Psychology Press.
  • Sharvit, K. & Kruglanski, A.W., (2012). The social psychology of terrorism: Individual, group and organizational processes. In Golec de Zavala, A. & Cichocka, A. (Eds.), The social psychology of social problems: The intergroup context (pp. 308-333). Houndmills, UK: Palgrave MacMillan

Courses Taught:

  • Emotions in conflict and conflict resolution
  • Social psychology of intergroup conflicts and their resolution
  • Theories and issues in intergroup conflict: A multi-disciplinary perspective

Keren Sharvit
Scholl of Psychological Sciences
University of Haifa
199 Aba Khoushy Ave.
3498838 Haifa
Israel

  • Phone: +972-4-8240929

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