Publications

Edited Volumes

Bar-Tal, D., Nets-Zehngut, R., & Sharvit, K. (Eds.) (2017). Self-censorship in contexts of conflict: Theory and research. Cham, Switzerland, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63378-7  

Sharvit, K. & Halperin, E. (Eds.) (2016). A social psychology perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Celebrating the legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal (Volume II). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24841-7

Halperin, E. & Sharvit, K. (Eds.) (2015). The social psychology of intractable conflicts: Celebrating the legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal (Volume I). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17861-5

Articles in Refereed Journals

Rosler, N., Wiener-Blotner, O., Heskiau Micheles, O., & Sharvit, K. (2024). Understanding reactions to Informative Process Model interventions: Ambivalence as a mechanism of change. Behavioral Sciences, 14(12), 1152. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14121152  

Ben-Ezer, I., Rosler, N., Sharvit, K., Wiener-Blotner, O., Bar-Tal, D., Nasie, M., & Hameiri, B. (2025). From acceptance to change: The role of acceptance in the effectiveness of the Informative Process Model for conflict resolution. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2), e12802. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12802

Scatolon, A., Sharvit, K., Huici, C., Alamo Hernandez, A., Glazer, G., Lorenzo Sánchez, E., & Michna, M. (2023). Focusing on the self to humanize others: The role of empathy and morality. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 51, 101264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2023.101264 

Sharvit, K., & Kremer-Sharon, S. (2023). Everybody hurts (sometimes): The role of victim category accessibility in prosocial responses towards victimized outgroups. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62, 322– 341. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12552 

Rosler, N., Sharvit, K., Hameiri, B., Wiener-Blotner, O., Idan, O., & Bar-Tal, D. (2022). The informative process model as a new intervention for attitude change in intractable conflicts: Theory and empirical evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 946410. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.946410 

Kahalon, R., Shnabel, N., Sharvit, K., Halabi, S., & Wright, S. C. (2022). High-quality contact with fellow majority group students is associated with better academic performance of minority group students. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, online preview: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221115943

Markiewicz, T & Sharvit, K. (2021). When victimhood goes to war? Israel and victim claims. Political Psychology, 42(1), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12690

Sharvit, K. & Valetzky, S. (2019). Who wants to be collectively guilty? A causal role for motivation in the regulation of collective guilt. Motivation and Emotion, 43, 103–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9718-y

Sharvit, K., Bar-Tal, D., Hameiri, B., Zafran, A., Shahar, E., & Raviv, A. (2018). Self-censorship orientation: Scale development, correlates and outcomes. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6(2), 331-363. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v6i2.859

Rosler, R., Sharvit, K., & Bar-Tal, D. (2017). Perceptions of prolonged occupation as barriers to conflict resolution. Political Psychology, 39(3), 519-538. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12444

Hameiri, B., Sharvit, K., Bar-Tal, D., Shahar, E., & Halperin, E. (2017) Support for self-censorship among Israelis as a socio-psychological barrier to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Political Psychology, 38(5), 795-813. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12346

Mange, J., Sharvit, K., Margas, N.  & Sénémeaud, C. (2016). Do I shoot faster because I am thinking about an outgroup or a threatening outgroup? Shooter bias, perceived threat and intergroup processes. Social Psychology, 47(1), 29-37. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000255

Sharvit, K., Brambilla, M., Babush, M., & Colucci, F.P. (2015). To feel or not to feel when my group harms others? The regulation of collective guilt as motivated reasoning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(9), 1223-1235. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215592843

Sharvit, K., Kruglanski, A., Wang, M., Sheveland, A., Ganor, B. & Azani, E. (2015). Palestinian public opinion and terrorism: A two-way street? Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 10(2), 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2015.1090526

Sharvit, K. (2014). How conflict begets conflict: Activation of the ethos of conflict in times of distress in a society involved in an intractable conflict. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 252–261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.07.017

Bélanger, J.J., Caouette, J., Sharvit, K., & Dugas, M. (2014). The psychology of martyrdom: Making the ultimate sacrifice in the name of a cause. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(3), 494-515. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036855

Lavi, I., Canetti, D., Sharvit, K., Bar-Tal, D., & Hobfoll, S. E. (2014). Protected by ethos in a protracted conflict? A comparative study among Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 58(1), 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002712459711

Sharvit, K., Kruglanski, A. W., Wang, M., Chen, X., Boyatzi, L. M., Ganor, B., & Azani, E. (2013). The effects of Israeli use of coercive and conciliatory tactics on Palestinians' use of terrorist tactics: 2000-2006. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward Terrorism and Genocide, 6(1-3), 22-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/17467586.2013.834067

Kruglanski, A.W., Bélanger, J.J., Gelfand, M., Gunaratna, R., Reinares, F., Orehek, E., Sasota, J., & Sharvit, K. (2013). Terrorism: A (self) love story; Re-directing the significance quest can end violence. American Psychologist, 68(7), 559-575. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032615

Mange, J., Chun, W. Y., Sharvit, K., & Belanger, J. J. (2012). Thinking about Arabs and Muslims makes Americans shoot faster: Effects of category accessibility on aggressive responses in a shooter paradigm. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42(5), 552-556. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1883

Bar-Tal, D., Sharvit, K., Halperin, E., & Zafran, A. (2012). Ethos of conflict: The concept and its measurement. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 18(1), 40-61. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026860

Sharvit, K., Bar-Tal, D., Raviv, A., Raviv, Al., & Gurevich, R. (2010). Ideological orientation and social context as moderators of the effect of terrorism: The case of Israeli-Jewish public opinion regarding peace. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(1), 105-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.613

Halperin, E., Bar-Tal, D., Sharvit, K., Raviv, A., & Rosler, N. (2010). Socio-psychosocial implications for an occupying society: The case of Israel. Journal of Peace Research, 47(1), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343309350013

Canetti-Nisim, D., Halperin, E., Sharvit, K., & Hobfoll, S. (2009). A new stress-based model of political extremism: Personal exposure to terrorism, psychological distress and exclusionist political attitudes. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 53(3), 363-389. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002709333296

Raviv, A., Sharvit, K., Raviv, Al., & Rosenblatt-Stein, S. (2009). Mothers' and fathers' reluctance to seek psychological help for their children. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 18, 162-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-008-9215-0

Kruglanski, A., Raviv, A., Bar-Tal, D., Raviv, Al., Sharvit, K., Ellis, S., Bar, R., Pierro, A., & Mannetti, L. (2005). Says who?: Epistemic authority effects in social judgment. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 345-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(05)37006-7

Klar, Y., Zakay, D., & Sharvit, K. (2002). ‘If I don’t get blown up…’: Realism in the face of terrorism in an Israeli nationwide sample. Risk Decision and Policy, 7, 203-219. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1357530902000625

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Sharvit, K. (2017). Self-censorship: Emerging themes and remaining questions. In D. Bar-Tal, R. Nets-Zehngut, & K. Sharvit (Eds.), Self-censorship in contexts of conflict: Theory and research (pp. 269-277). Cham, Switzerland, Springer.

Sharvit, K. (2016), Socio-psychological foundations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Applying Daniel Bar-Tal's theorizing. In Sharvit, K. & Halperin, E. (eds.), A social psychology perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Celebrating the legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal (Volume II, pp. 1-14). New York: Springer.

Sharvit, K. & Kruglanski, A.W., (2012). The social psychology of terrorism: Individual, group and organizational processes. In A. Golec de Zavala, & A. Cichocka (Eds.), The social psychology of social problems: The intergroup context (pp. 308-333). Houndmills, UK: Palgrave MacMillan

Halperin, E., Sharvit, K., & Gross, J. (2011). Emotion and emotion regulation in intergroup conflict – An appraisal based framework. In D. Bar-Tal (ed.), Intergroup conflicts and their resolution: Social psychological perspective (pp. 83-103). New York: Psychology Press.

Kruglanski, A.W., Sharvit, K., & Fishman, S. (2011). Workings of the terrorist mind: Its individual, group, and organizational psychologies. In D. Bar-Tal (ed.), Intergroup conflicts and their resolution: Social psychological perspective (pp. 195-216). New York: Psychology Press.

Rosler, N., Bar-Tal, D., Sharvit, K., Halperin, E., & Raviv, A. (2009). Moral aspects of prolonged occupation: Implications for an occupying society. In S. Scuzzarello, C. Kinnvall, & K. Monroe (Eds.), On behalf of others: The morality of care in a global world (pp. 211-232). New York: Oxford University Press

Bar-Tal, D., & Sharvit, K. (2008). Psychological foundations of Israeli Jews’ reactions to Al Aqsa Intifada: The role of the threatening transitional context. In V. M. Esses & R. Vernon (Eds.) Explaining the breakdown of ethnic relations: Why neighbors kill (pp. 147-170). Oxford: Blackwell

Sharvit, K., & Bar-Tal, D. (2007). Ethos of conflict in the Israeli media during the period of the violent confrontation. In Y. Bar-Siman-Tov (Ed.), The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: From conflict resolution to conflict management (pp. 203-232). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bar-Tal, D., & Sharvit, K. (2007). Psychological earthquake of the Israeli Jewish society: Changing opinions following Camp David Summit and Al Aqsa Intifada. In Y. Bar-Siman-Tov (Ed.), The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: From conflict resolution to conflict management (pp. 169-202). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Raviv, A., Zeira, M., & Sharvit, K. (2007). Community psychology in Israel. In S. Reich, M. Riemer, I. Prilleltensky, & M. Montero (Eds.) International community psychology: History and theories (pp. 335-349). New York: Springer.