Prof. Ifat Maoz
Academic Background and Fields of Interest
Ifat Maoz is a Full Professor in the Department of Communication and
Journalism, Head of the Smart Family Institute of Communications at the Hebrew
University and holds the Danny Arnold Chair in Communication. Prof. Maoz is a
social psychologist researching psychology and media in conflict and inter-group
relations. She has been a visiting scholar at the Psychology Department of
Stanford University (1996) and a senior research fellow at the Asch Center for the
Study of Ethno-political Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr
College (2002-3, 2006-8). Her current main interests include psychological,
moral and media-related aspects in conflict and peace-making, cognitive
processing of social and political information, dynamics of inter-group
communication in conflict, models of inter-group encounters, audience responses,
and public opinion in conflict and peace making.
Email: msifat@mscc.huji.ac.il Office Hours: Tuesdays 18:00-19:00 Room
5416, Communication
Selected Publications in the Past Seven Years
Maoz, I. (2004). Peace building in violent conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Post Oslo
people to people activities. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society,
17(3), 563-574.
Maoz, I. (2004). Coexistence is in the eye if the beholder: evaluating inter-group
encounter interventions between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Journal of Social
Issues, 60(3), 403-418.
Maoz, I. Bar-On, D. Bekerman, Z. and Jaber-Massarawa, S. (2004). Learning
about 'good enough' through 'bad enough': A story of a planned dialogue
between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Human Relations, 57 (9), 1075-1101.
Maoz, I.; McCauley, R. (2005). Psychological correlates of support for
compormise: A polling study of Jewish-Israeli attitudes towards solutions to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Political Psychology, 26, 791-807
Maoz, I. & Eidelson R. (2007). Psychological bases of extreme policy preferences:
How the personal beliefs of Israeli-Jews predict their support for population
transfer in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. American Behavioral Scientist. 11
Maoz, I. (2006). The effect of news coverage concerning the opponents’ reaction
to a concession on its evaluation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Harvard
International Journal of Press/Politics, 11(4), 70-88.
Maoz, I., Yaniv, I. & Ivri, N. (2007). Decision Framing and Willingness to make
compromise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Journal of Peace Research, 44 (1),
81-91.
Ellis, D. & Maoz, I. (2007). Online arguments between Israeli-Jews and
Palestinians. Human Communication Research, 33, 291-307.
Maoz, I., Bar-On, D & .Yikya, S. (2007). “They understand only force”: A critical
examination of the eruption of verbal violence in a Jewish-Palestinian
dialogue .Peace and Conflict Studies. (2)14, 27-48.
Maoz, I. & McCauley, C. (2008).Threat , dehumanization and support for
retaliatory-aggressive policies in asymmetric conflict Journal of Conflict
Resolution, (1)52, 93-116.
Maoz, I. & McCauley C. (2009). Threat perceptions and feelings as predictors of
Jewish-Israeli support for compromise with Palestinians. Journal of Peace
Research,46(4)
Maoz, I. & Ellis, D. (2008). Inter-group Communication as a Predictor of JewishIsraeli Agreement with Integrative Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
The Mediating Effects of Out-group Trust and Guilt. Journal of
Communication, 58, 490-507.
Maoz, I. (2008). "They watched a terrorist" responses of Jewish-Israeli viewers to
an interview with a Palestinian terrorist. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace
Psychology. 14(3), 275-290.
Maoz, I. (2009). The Women and Peace Hypothesis? The Effect of Opponentnegotiators' Gender on Evaluation of Compromise Solutions in the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict. International Negotiation, 14, 521-538.
Maoz, I., Freedman, G., & McCauley, C. (2010). Fled or expelled? Representation
of the Israeli-Arab conflict in U.S. high school history textbooks. Peace and
Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 16(1), 1-10.
Ron, Y., Maoz, I. & Bekerman, Z. (2010).Dialogue and Ideology: The Effect of
Continuous Involvement in Jewish-Arab Dialogue Encounters on the Ideological
Perspectives of Israeli-Jews. International Journal of Intercultural Relations,
34(6), 571-579
Maoz, I., Freedman, G. & McCauley, C. (2010). Fled or Expelled? Representation
of the Israeli-Arab conflict in U.S. high school history textbooks. Peace and
Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 1(16).
Maoz I. (2010). The asymmetric struggle for hearts and minds of viewers.
Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 3(2), 99-110.
Maoz, I. (2011). Contact in protracted asymmetrical conflict: Twenty years of
planned encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Journal of Peace
Research, 48(1), 115-125.
Maoz , I. & McCauley C. (2011). Explaining support for violating out-group human
rights in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The role of attitudes toward general
principles of human rights, trust in the out-group, religiosity and inter-group
contact. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 889-903, (4)41.
Maoz, I. (2012). The Face of the Enemy: The Effect of Press-reported Visual
Information Regarding the Facial Features of Opponent politicians on Support for
Peace. Political Communication.
Kellen, D., Bekerman, Z. & Maoz, I. (2013). An Easy Coalition: the Peace camp
Identity and Israeli-Palestinian Track Two Diplomacy. Journal of Conflict
Resolution.
Maoz, I. (2012). The dangers of prejudice reduction interventions: Empirical
evidence from encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Invited commentary
on Dixon et al's article: "Beyond prejudice: Are negative evaluations the problem?
Is getting us to like one another more the solution?". Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (A Psychology, IF= 21.952, 1/14 Psychology, biological).