Shlomo Hareli

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Shlomo Hareli (March 14, 1964 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli psychologist is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Business Administration at the University of Haifa.

Education

Hareli received a BA in psychology and philosophy from the University of Haifa in 1992 and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Haifa in 2000.   

Career

From 1999 to 2000 Hareli was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Los-Angeles working with causal attribution Prof. Bernard Weiner on causal attribution research. In 2000 Hareli took a position as lecturer at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee and then moved to the Department of Business Administration of the University of Haifa where he hold the position of Associate Professor of Social psychology. He served as the head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Emotions until 2017 and now directs the Laboratory of the Study of Social Perception of Emotions.

His research focuses on the social perception of emotions. In particular, he is interested in the way that people use the emotions of others to learn about social norms and social standards, about the character of people and their social power and competence. A related line of research focuses on social context influences on the social signal function of emotions. Much of this work was done in collaboration with Ursula Hess. Specifically, on the impact of context information on this process. Finally, Hareli has also some interest at studying the evolutionary roots of social perception. For example, in one study Hareli tested how the shape of tree leaves surrounding houses affects its perceived value connecting it to the protective function of trees.