Gershon Ben-Shakhar

Gershon Ben-Shakhar
גרשון בן שחר
Born (1942-05-25) May 25, 1942 (age 82)
Alma mater
Known forPresident of the Open University of Israel
AwardsEMET Prize Israel 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]

Academic career

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]

Published works

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]

Awards and recognition

In 2011 he was an EMET Prize Laureate.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Prof. Gershon Ben-Shakhar". www.openu.ac.il.
  2. ^ Yearbook of Science and the Future. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1989. ISBN 9780852294895 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "'Lie Detectors' Do Not Detect Lies". Reason. October 3, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d "היזמה למחקר יישומי בחינוך - Members". education.academy.ac.il.
  5. ^ Polygraph. American Polygraph Association. February 12, 1997 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Ben-Shakhar, Gershon; Furedy, John J. (2012). Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception: A Psychophysiological and International Perspective. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461232827 – via Google Books.