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Dr. Ido Liviatan, Senior Lecturer

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The Open University of Israel Department of Education and Psychology 1 University Road, P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office: 972-9-7781316 Email:idoli@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Social distance and its effects on judgments and behaviors
  • Cognitive and motivational processes underlying system justification and change

I am a social psychologist, interested in understanding how the interplay between social, cognitive, and motivational processes is associated with the negotiation of self-regulatory issues individuals face within interpersonal, intergroup, and system-level situations. My work is centered on two research questions. The first explores antecedent conditions and consequences of feeling closeness to other individuals. The second studies factors that determine whether people will seek to maintain versus change social systems affecting their lives.

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2009
PhD, Social Psychology, New York University
1997
BA, Psychology, Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
2013 -
Senior Lecturer, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University
2011-2013
Lecturer, The Open University of Israel
2009-2011
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University

2020-2025 Israel Science Foundation, Language abstraction as a communication tool for system justification

2013-2017 Israel Science Foundation, A construal level analysis of judgments, decisions, and actions within intergroup versus intragroup contexts

2013 Gandyr Foundation, The motivational basis of political (non-)participation of Israeli youth (with Avner Caspi)

 

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Eitam, B. & Liviatan, I. (2017). "What is it like to be a self?" A special issue on the phenomenal self. Social Cognition, 35, 79-86.

var der Toorn, J., Neil, P. R., Liviatan, I., & Jost, J. T. (2014). My country, right or wrong: Does activating system justification motivation eliminate the liberal-conservative gap in patriotic attachment? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 50-60.

Liviatan, I. & Jost J. T. (2014). A social-cognitive analysis of system justification goal striving. Social Cognition, 32, 95-122.

Liviatan, I. & Jost J. T. (2011). System justification theory: Motivated social cognition in the service of the status quo. An introduction to a special issue on system justification theory. Social Cognition, 3, 231-237.

Ledgerwood, A. & Liviatan, I. (2010). The price of a shared vision: Group identity goals and the social creation of value. Social Cognition, 28, 401-421.

Liviatan, I., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2008). Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension: Implications for perception of others’ actions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1256-1269.

Ledgerwood, A., Liviatan, I., & Carnevale, P. J. (2007). Group identity completion and the symbolic value of property. Psychological Science, 18, 873-878.

Thorisdottir, H., Jost J. T., Liviatan, I., & Shrout, P. E. (2007). Psychological needs and values underlying left-right political orientation: Cross-national evidence from 19 countries. Public Opinion Quarterly, 71, 175-203.

Roccas, S., Klar, Y., & Liviatan, I. (2006). The paradox of group-based guilt: Modes of national identification, conflict vehemence, and reactions to the ingroup’s moral violations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 698-711.

Nadler, A. & Liviatan I. (2006). Inter-Group Reconciliation: Effects of Adversary’s Expressions of Empathy, Responsibility and Recipients’ Trust. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 459-470.

Jost, J. T., Liviatan, I., var der Toorn, J., Ledgerwood, A., Mandisodza, A. N., & Nosek, B. A. (2012). & L. Kals (Eds.), Justice and conflicts: Theoretical and empirical contributions (pp. 315-327). Heidelberg: Springer.

Jost, J. T., Liviatan, I., var der Toorn, J., Ledgerwood, A., Mandisodza, A. N., & Nosek, B. A. (2010). System Justification: How do we know it is motivated? In A. C. Kay, D. R. Bobocel, M. P. Zanna, & J. M. Olson (Eds.), The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 11, pp. 174-203). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Jost, J. T., Pietrzak, J., Liviatan, I., Mandisodza, A. N., & Napier, J. L. (2008). System justification as a conscious and nonconscious goal pursuit. In J. Shah & W. L. Gardner, The handbook of motivational science (Eds.), New York: Guilford (pp. 591-605).

Liviatan, I. & Trope, Y. (2007).Diagnosticity. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jost, J. T. & Liviatan, I. (2007).System Justification. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jost, J. T. & Liviatan, I. (2007). False Consciousness. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Roccas, S., Klar, Y., & Liviatan, I. (2004).Who feels guilty? Collective guilt, defensive cognitions, aspects of group identification and personal values among Israelis. In N. R. Branscombe & B. Doosje (Eds.), Collective guilt: International perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press (pp. 130-147).

Nadler, A. & Liviatan I. (2004). Intergroup reconciliation processes in Israel: Theoretical analysis and empirical findings. In N. R. Branscombe & B. Doosje (Eds.), Collective guilt: International perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press (pp. 216-235).

Liviatan, I. & Trope, Y. (2007). Diagnosticity. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jost, J. T. & Liviatan, I. (2007). System Justification. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jost, J. T. & Liviatan, I. (2007). False Consciousness. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.