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Overview

Ifat Maoz is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans primarily the social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science, communication, social psychology, clinical psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics of Maoz's research include:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Political Conflict and Governance

Maoz has contributed to several publication venues with repeated presence in specific journals. The most frequent outlets include:

  • Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology (3 publications)
  • Social Media + Society (2 publications)
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution (2 publications)
  • Journal of Social and Political Psychology (1 publication)
  • Psychological Science (1 publication)

Recent papers by Maoz cover diverse angles of political conflict, social polarization, and peacebuilding efforts, such as:

  • "The Normalization of Hatred: Identity, Affective Polarization, and Dehumanization on Facebook in the Context of Intractable Political Conflict," 2020, Social Media + Society
  • "Women for Peace: Promoting Dialogue and Peace through Facebook?", 2020, Social Media + Society
  • "Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution," 2022, Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • "Examining real-world legitimization of cross-party violence through two explanatory frameworks: Affective polarization and low group efficacy," 2023, Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • "Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict," 2021, Psychological Science

Maoz collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Tal Orian Harel
  • Shaina Silberstein Zvulun
  • Leigh H. Grant
  • Boaz Keysar
  • Eran Halperin

Their work addresses critical issues in political and social conflict, often incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives involving media, communication, and psychological approaches to understanding identity, polarization, and conflict resolution.

Best Publications

  • Does contact work in protracted asymmetrical conflict? Appraising 20 years of reconciliation-aimed encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians

    Ifat Maoz

  • Threat, Dehumanization, and Support for Retaliatory Aggressive Policies in Asymmetric Conflict:

    Ifat Maoz;Clark McCauley

  • An Experiment in Peace: Reconciliation-Aimed Workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian Youth*

    Ifat Maoz

  • Power relations in intergroup encounters: a case study of Jewish–Arab encounters in Israel

    Ifat Maoz

  • Reactive Devaluation of an “Israeli” vs. “Palestinian” Peace Proposal:

    Ifat Maoz;Andrew Ward;Michael Katz;Lee Ross

  • Coexistence Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Evaluating Intergroup Encounter Interventions Between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

    Ifat Maoz

  • Psychological Correlates of Support for Compromise: A Polling Study of Jewish-Israeli Attitudes toward Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Ifat Maoz;Clark McCauley

  • Multiple Conflicts and Competing Agendas: A Framework for Conceptualizing Structured Encounters Between Groups in Conflict-The Case of a Coexistence Project of Jews and Palestinians in Israel

    Ifat Maoz

  • Peace Building in Violent Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Post-Oslo People-to-People Activities

    Ifat Maoz

  • Troubles With Identity: Obstacles to Coexistence Education in Conflict Ridden Societies

    Zvi Bekerman;Ifat Maoz

  • The Dialogue between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’: A Process Analysis of Palestinian-Jewish Encounters in Israel

    Ifat Maoz;Shoshana Steinberg;Dan Bar-On;Mueen Fakhereldeen

  • Threat Perceptions and Feelings as Predictors of Jewish-Israeli Support for Compromise with Palestinians

    Ifat Maoz;Clark Mccauley

  • The Normalization of Hatred: Identity, Affective Polarization, and Dehumanization on Facebook in the Context of Intractable Political Conflict:

    Tal Orian Harel;Jessica Katz Jameson;Ifat Maoz

  • Online Argument Between Israeli Jews and Palestinians

    Donald G. Ellis;If At Maoz

  • Psychological Bases of Extreme Policy Preferences: How the Personal Beliefs of Israeli-Jews Predict Their Support for Population Transfer in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Ifat Maoz;Roy J. Eidelson

  • Intergroup Communication as a Predictor of Jewish-Israeli Agreement with Integrative Solutions to the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: The Mediating Effects of out-Group Trust and Guilt

    Ifat Maoz;Donald G. Ellis

  • Cross-cultural argument interactions between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians

    Donald G. Ellis;Ifat Maoz

  • Going to Ground: Argument in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian Encounter Groups

    Ifat Maoz;Donald G. Ellis

  • From Working Through the Holocaust to Current Ethnic Conflicts: Evaluating the TRT Group Workshop in Hamburg

    Ifat Maoz;Dan Bar-On

  • Is there contact at all? Intergroup interaction in planned contact interventions between Jews and Arabs in Israel

    Ifat Maoz

  • A COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL CODES APPROACH TO ETHNONATIONAL CONFLICT

    Donald G. Ellis;Ifat Maoz

  • Learning about ‘good enough’ through ‘bad enough’: A story of a planned dialogue between israeli jews and palestinians

    Ifat Maoz;Dan Bar-On;Zvi Bekerman;Summer Jaber-Massarwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Clark McCauley
Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College
Ilan Yaniv
Ilan Yaniv Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lee Ross
Lee Ross Stanford University
Eran Halperin
Eran Halperin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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