ABOUT ME
About Professor Shlomo Hareli
Professor Shlomo Hareli is a social psychologist focused on studying emotions at the University of Haifa's School of Business Administration. He serves as the Head of the Laboratory for the Study of Social Perception of Emotions and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor in the Department of Business Administration.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Hareli's research focuses on the social signal value and communication function of emotion expressions, including:
Mapping the types of social information people derive from observing emotions, and their impact on domains like achievement, motivation, and relationships.
Studying how emotion expression dynamics and unfolding social interactions impact emotion perception. Developed an influential "Frozen Dynamism" methodology for examining emotional expressions over time in controlled experiments.
Examining the influence of context on emotion perception - both empirically and theoretically. Made key contributions like identifying the bidirectional relationships between context and emotions, and determining different emotions have varying susceptibility to contextual factors ("situative informativeness").
Advancing understanding of how inferences about personality traits like modesty, arrogance, and dominance are drawn from emotional expressions and reactions.
Training graduate students to conduct pioneering studies related to the social perception of emotions and environmental influences.
Published widely-cited theoretical frameworks, reviews, and edited books to shape the field around communicating emotion and social-functional accounts.
His expanding, culturally attentive research program aims to reveal mysteries around the social communication of emotion in interpersonal life.