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Overview

Eran Halperin is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences and psychology, with particular attention to sociology and political science, social psychology, applied psychology, gender studies, and education.

The core topics covered in their work include:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Eran Halperin has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Eran Halperin (self-collaboration)
  • Maya Tamir
  • Michal Reifen-Tagar
  • Chagai Weiss
  • Smadar Cohen-Chen

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Eran Halperin include:

  • "Educating for inclusion: Diversity education programs can reduce prejudice toward outgroups in Israel" (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The prevalence of despair in intractable conflicts: Direct messages of hope and despair affect leftists, but not rightists" (2020), published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • "The Apple Doesn't 'Feel' Far From the Tree: Mother-Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy" (2022), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Mothers' Motivation for Group-Based Empathy in Their Children as a Function of Type and Extent of Group Identification" (2023), published in Social Psychology
  • "Examining the impact of learning about a resolved conflict on attitudes in an ongoing conflict: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian context" (2025), published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

This research profile outlines Eran Halperin's contribution to understanding social dynamics, intergroup relations, and psychological processes within sociopolitical contexts.

Best Publications

  • Collective Emotions in Conflict Situations: Societal Implications

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Eran Halperin;Joseph de Rivera

  • A New Stress-Based Model of Political Extremism Personal Exposure to Terrorism, Psychological Distress, and Exclusionist Political Attitudes

    Daphna Canetti-Nisim;Eran Halperin;Keren Sharvit;Stevan E. Hobfoll

  • Group-based Hatred in Intractable Conflict in Israel:

    Eran Halperin

  • Promoting the Middle East peace process by changing beliefs about group malleability.

    Eran Halperin;Alexandra G. Russell;Kali H. Trzesniewski;James J. Gross

  • Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures

    Daniel Sznycer;John Tooby;Leda Cosmides;Roni Porat;Roni Porat

  • Can Emotion Regulation Change Political Attitudes in Intractable Conflicts? From the Laboratory to the Field

    Eran Halperin;Roni Porat;Roni Porat;Maya Tamir;James J. Gross

  • Affirmation, acknowledgment of in-group responsibility, group-based guilt, and support for reparative measures.

    Sabina Čehajić-Clancy;Daniel A. Effron;Eran Halperin;Varda Liberman

  • Anger, Hatred, and the Quest for Peace: Anger Can Be Constructive in the Absence of Hatred

    Eran Halperin;Alexandra G. Russell;Carol S. Dweck;James J. Gross

  • Emotion, Emotion Regulation, and Conflict Resolution:

    Eran Halperin

  • Socio-psychological barriers to peace making: An empirical examination within the Israeli Jewish Society

    Eran Halperin;Daniel Bar-Tal

  • The Process Model of Group-Based Emotion Integrating Intergroup Emotion and Emotion Regulation Perspectives

    Amit Goldenberg;Eran Halperin;Martijn van Zomeren;James J. Gross

  • Hope in the Middle East: Malleability beliefs, hope, and the willingness to compromise for peace

    Smadar Cohen-Chen;Smadar Cohen-Chen;Eran Halperin;Richard J. Crisp;James J. Gross

  • Ethos of conflict: The concept and its measurement.

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Keren Sharvit;Eran Halperin;Anat Zafran

  • Emotions in Conflict: Inhibitors and Facilitators of Peace Making

    Eran Halperin

  • Emotional Barriers to Peace: Emotions and Public Opinion of Jewish Israelis About the Peace Process in the Middle East

    Eran Halperin

  • Emotion regulation in violent conflict: reappraisal, hope, and support for humanitarian aid to the opponent in wartime.

    Eran Halperin;James J. Gross

  • The rise of affectivism

    Daniel Dukes;Daniel Dukes;Kathryn Abrams;Ralph Adolphs;Mohammed E. Ahmed

  • Why We Hate

    Agneta Fischer;Eran Halperin;Daphna Canetti;Alba Jasini

  • How group-based emotions are shaped by collective emotions: evidence for emotional transfer and emotional burden.

    Amit Goldenberg;Tamar Saguy;Eran Halperin

  • The positive effect of negative emotions in protracted conflict: The case of anger

    Michal Reifen Tagar;Christopher M. Federico;Eran Halperin

  • What we want is what we get: Group-based emotional preferences and conflict resolution.

    Roni Porat;Eran Halperin;Maya Tamir

  • Socio–Psychological Barriers to Peace Making: The Case of the Israeli Jewish Society

    Daniel Bar-Tal;Eran Halperin;Neta Oren

  • Social-Psychological Interventions for Intergroup Reconciliation: An Emotion Regulation Perspective

    Sabina Čehajić-Clancy;Amit Goldenberg;James J. Gross;Eran Halperin

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamar Saguy
Tamar Saguy Reichman University
Daniel Bar-Tal
Daniel Bar-Tal Tel Aviv University
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Martijn van Zomeren
Martijn van Zomeren University of Groningen
Maya Tamir
Maya Tamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Richard J. Crisp
Richard J. Crisp Durham University
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
Stevan E. Hobfoll
Stevan E. Hobfoll Rush University Medical Center
Gal Sheppes
Gal Sheppes Tel Aviv University

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