Gershon Ben-Shakhar

Gershon Ben-Shakhar (Hebrew: גרשון בן שחר; born May 25, 1942) is an Israeli psychologist. He served as president of the Open University of Israel.^{[1] [2] [3]} He received the Israel Prize in 2024.

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]

In 2024, he was received the Israel Prize for research in psychology for his significant contribution to the field.^[7]

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