Daniel Bar-Tal
Israeli psychologist
Daniel Bar-Tal (Hebrew: דניאל בר-טל; born 1946) is an Israeli political psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. He is known for his research on the socio-psychological foundations and dynamics of intractable conflict, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He was elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2017 and received the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award from Division 48 of the American Psychological Association in 2014. He served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology in 1999–2000, as Co-Editor in Chief of the Palestine-Israel Journal from 2001 to 2005, and as Co-Director of the European Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Biography
Bar-Tal was born on January 31, 1946, in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe), in the Tajik SSR of the Soviet Union, to Polish Jewish parents who had fled Poland in 1939. The family returned to Poland during his infancy, settling in Szczecin, where he lived until emigrating to Israel with his parents in 1957 at the age of eleven. He earned a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Tel Aviv University in 1970,[1] and an M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1974) in Social Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.
After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, he joined the School of Education at Tel Aviv University in 1975 as a Lecturer. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer (tenured) in 1979, Fellow Professor in 1983, and Full Professor in 1989. He held the Branco Weiss Chair for Research in Child Development and Education from 2008 to 2015.
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