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Daniel Bar-Tal

Daniel Bar-Tal

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Psychology
Israel
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
75
Citations
21103
World Ranking
1786
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2017 - Polish Academy of Science

Overview

Daniel Bar-Tal is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences, with a focus on psychology. Their scholarly work primarily addresses social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment. Their research also covers topics related to Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, conflicts in the Middle East and Rwanda, terrorism and political violence, and conflict management and negotiation.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Interventions to change well-anchored attitudes in the context of intergroup conflict, 2020, Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • Between Open-minded Critical Thinking and Closed-minded Allegiance: Educational Tensions in Societies Involved in Intractable Conflict, 2020, Political Psychology
  • Ethno-political socialization of young children in societies involved in intractable conflict: The case of Israel, 2021, Journal of Social Issues
  • When are intergroup attitudes judged as free speech and when as prejudice? A social identity analysis of attitudes towards immigrants, 2021, International Journal of Psychology
  • Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline, 2022, Review of General Psychology

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Boaz Hameiri (10 co-authored works)
  • Michael J. Platow (6 co-authored works)
  • Dirk Van Rooy (6 co-authored works)
  • Russell Spears (6 co-authored works)
  • Martha Augoustinos (5 co-authored works)

Daniel Bar-Tal regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology (4 publications)
  • Political Psychology (2 publications)
  • World Affairs (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (2 publications)
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass (1 publication)

Their main fields of study comprise social sciences and psychology, with subfields spanning sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, and political science and international relations.

Daniel Bar-Tal received an award from the Polish Academy of Science in 2017, recognizing their contributions within their academic discipline.

Best Publications

  • Shared Beliefs in a Society: Social Psychological Analysis

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • Sociopsychological Foundations of Intractable Conflicts

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • From Intractable Conflict Through Conflict Resolution To Reconciliation: Psychological Analysis

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • Collective Emotions in Conflict Situations: Societal Implications

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Eran Halperin;Joseph de Rivera

  • Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli-Jewish Society

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Yona Teichman

  • Why does fear override hope in societies engulfed by intractable conflict, as it does in the Israeli society?

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • Societal beliefs in times of intractable conflict: The Israeli case.

    Daniel Bar‐Tal

  • A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood in intractable conflicts

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Lily Chernyak-Hai;Noa Schori;Ayelet Gundar

  • Causes and consequences of delegitimization: Models of conflict and ethnocentrism.

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • The dominance of fear over hope in the life of individuals and collectives

    Maria Jarymowicz;Daniel Bar-Tal

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF INTRACTABLE ETHNONATIONAL CONFLICTS : THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CASE

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  • The Nature of Reconciliation as an Outcome and as a Process

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Gemma H. Bennink

  • Intergroup Conflicts and Their Resolution : A Social Psychological Perspective

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • Intractable Conflicts: Socio-Psychological Foundations and Dynamics

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • Says Who?: Epistemic Authority Effects in Social Judgment

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Amiram Raviv;Daniel Bar-Tal;Alona Raviv

  • The Social Psychology of Knowledge

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Arie W. Kruglanski

  • Delegitimization: The Extreme Case of Stereotyping and Prejudice

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • Development of social categories and stereotypes in early childhood: The case of “The Arab” concept formation, stereotype and attitudes by Jewish children in Israel

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • The effect of a major event on stereotyping: terrorist attacks in Israel and Israeli adolescents' perceptions of Palestinians, Jordanians and Arabs

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Daniela Labin

  • Physical attractiveness and its relationship to sex-role stereotyping

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Leonard Saxe

  • Stereotyping and prejudice: Changing conceptions.

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  • Patriotism in the lives of individuals and nations

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Ervin Staub

Frequent Co-Authors

Amiram Raviv
Amiram Raviv Tel Aviv University
Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
Gal Sheppes
Gal Sheppes Tel Aviv University
Ervin Staub
Ervin Staub University of Massachusetts Amherst
Irene Hanson Frieze
Irene Hanson Frieze University of Pittsburgh
Michael J. Platow
Michael J. Platow Australian National University
Wolfgang Stroebe
Wolfgang Stroebe University of Groningen
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Antonio Pierro
Antonio Pierro Sapienza University of Rome
Rusi Jaspal
Rusi Jaspal University of Brighton

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