Gershon Ben-Shakhar | |
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| גרשון בן שחר | |
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| Born | May 25, 1942 |
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| Known for | President of the Open University of Israel |
| Awards | EMET Prize |
Gershon Ben-Shakhar (גרשון בן שחר; born May 25, 1942) is an Israeli psychologist. He served as president of the Open University of Israel.[1][2][3]
Gershon Ben-Shakhar earned a B.A. in Psychology and Statistics (1966), an M.A. in Psychology (1970), and a Ph.D. in Psychology (1975) from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1][4] He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, from 1975 to 1976.[1]
Ben-Shakhar taught in the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1981 on, ultimately as a Professor and for a time as the Chair of the Department and the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.[1][5][4]
In 2003 he became president of the Open University of Israel, succeeding Eliahu Nissim.[1][4]
Along with John J. Furedy he wrote the book Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception: A psychophysiological and international perspective (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990).[1][6]
In 2011 he was an EMET Prize Laureate.[4]
