Daniel Bar-Tal is an Israeli academic, author and Branco Weiss Professor of Research in Child Development and Education at School of Education, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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Early life

Bar-Tal was born in Stalinabad, USSR in 1946, but lived his childhood in Szczecin

Szczecin

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, Poland

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 until his immigration to Israel

Israel

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 in 1957. In Israel he completed his undergraduate studies at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

. He pursued his graduate training in social psychology at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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, where he completed his doctoral dissertation in 1974. He stayed at Pittsburgh for postdoctoral studies in 1975.

In 1975, Bar-Tal returned to Tel Aviv University. His teaching career has been at Tel Aviv. He served as a Director of the Walter Lebach Research Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education from 2002 through 2005. He was a Co-editor in Chief of the Palestine Israel Journal from 2001 through 2005. He also served as the President of the International Society of Political Psychology from 1999 through 2000.

In 1991, his paper "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; A Cognitive Analysis" won the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). In 2002, his paper “Why does fear override hope” won the second place in the same competition.

In 2009, his paper “Reconciliation as a foundation of culture of peace” won again the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize of SPSSI.

The Golestan Fellowship permitted him to spend the 2000-2001 academic year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS).

In 2006, Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict, received the Alexander George Award of the International Society of Political Psychology for the best book in Political Psychology. In 2006 he also received Peace Scholar Award of the Peace and Justice Studies Association

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Academic research

In the first phase of his career he was interested in helping behavior and attribution theory. Since the early eighties his interest has shifted to political psychology. His interests include shared beliefs in groups and societies.

Through the years he has lectured widely on his work in many different countries, and worked as Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

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, Nashville; Brandeis University

Brandeis University

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, Boston

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; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

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, Paris

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; University of Muenster, Germany

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, University of Maryland

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, College Park

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, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw

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 and University of Palermo

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Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Daniel Bar-Tal, OCLC

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/WorldCat

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encompasses roughly 40+ works in 120+ publications in 4 languages and 5,000+ library holdings.

• Bar-Tal, D. (1976). Prosocial behavior: Theory and research. New York: Halsted Press.
• Bar-Tal, D. (1990). Group beliefs: A conception for analyzing group structure, processes and behavior. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Bar-Tal, D. (2000). Shared beliefs in a society: Social psychological analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Bar-Tal, D., & Teichman Y. (2005). Stereotypes and prejudice in conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli Jewish society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bar-Tal, D. (2007). Living with the conflict: Socio-psychological analysis of the Israeli-Jewish society. Jerusalem: Carmel. (in Hebrew)
• Bar-Tal, D. (in preparation). Intractable conflicts: Psychological foundations and dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bar-Tal, D., & Saxe, L. (Eds.), (1978). Social psychology of education: Theory and research. New York: Halsted.
• Frieze, I., Bar-Tal, D., & Carroll, J.S. (Eds.), (1979). New approaches to social problems: Applications of attribution theory. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Sponsored by SPISSI).
• Staub, F., Bar-Tal, D., Karylowski, J., & Reykowski, J. (Eds.), (1984). Development and maintenance of prosocial behavior. New York: Plenum.
• Stroebe, W., Kruglanski, A., Bar-Tal, D., & Hewstone, M. (Eds), (1988). The social psychology of intergroup conflict. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Bar-Tal, D., & Kruglanski, A. (Eds.) (1988). The social psychology of knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bar-Tal, D., Graumann, C., Kruglanski, A.W., & Stroebe, W. (Eds.), (1989). Stereotypes and prejudice: Changing conceptions. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Bar-Tal, D., & Staub, E. (Eds.) (1997). Patriotism in the life of individuals and nations. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.
• Bar-Tal, D., Jacobson, D., & Klieman, A. (Eds.) (1998). Security concerns: Insights from the Israeli experience. Stamford, CT: JAI.
• Raviv, A., Oppenheimer, L., & Bar-Tal, D. (Eds.) (1999). How children understand war and peace: A call for international peace education. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
• Ben-Amos, A., & Bar-Tal, D. (Eds.)(2004). Patriotism: Homeland love Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad (in Hebrew).
• Bar-Tal, D. (Ed.), (2011) Intergroup conflicts and their resolution: Social psychological perspective. New York: Psychology Press
• Bar-Tal D., & Schnell I. (Eds.) (preparation) Impacts of occupation on occupiers: Lessons from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Book submitted for publication