MAYA TAMIR, PHD

DIRECTOR

Maya Tamir is a full professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in social-personality psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

TONY GUTENTAG

GRADUATE STUDENT

I am currently a PhD student in the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University, supervised by Prof. Maya Tamir. I hold a B.A. in Psychology and Communication, a M.A. is Psychology and a M.B.A - all degrees are from The Hebrew University. 
I am interested in emotion regulation and motivation. Specifically, I suggest that the outcome of emotion regulation also depends on how committed people are to achieving their emotion goal.

SHIRA RAN

GRADUATE STUDENT

I am a Ph.D. student in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and IDC Herzliya, under the supervision of Prof. Maya Tamir, Prof. Eran Halperin, and Dr. Michal Reifen Tagar. 
My Ph.D. examines children's socialization process of motivation for empathy toward outgroup members.

SHIR MIZRAHI LAKAN

GRADUATE STUDENT

I am a PhD student in the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University, supervised by Prof. Maya Tamir.

I hold a B.A. in Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, and a M.A. in clinical child Psychology. My Ph.D. focuses on emotion regulation and psychopathology.