Nira Liberman, Associate Professor Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Tel: +972-3-6406388 Fax: +972-3-6409547 niralib@post.tau.ac.il

Short Biography

Prof. Nira Liberman received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Tel Aviv University in 1997. She had a post doctoral position at Columbia University , NYC during 1996-1999, and an assistant professor position at Indiana University , Bloomington during 2000-2001. Prof. Liberman is presently at the social psychology program at the Department of Psychology, where she has been a faculty member since 2001.

Fields of Interest

Psychological distance, social cognition, decision making, motivation, self regulation, thought suppression.

Selected publications

Psychological distance

Liberman, N., Trope, Y., & Stephan, E. (in press). Psychological Distance. In: E. T. Higgins & A. W. Kruglanski (Eds.). Social Psychology: A Handbook of Basic Principles . New York : Guilford Press

Trope, Y. & Liberman, N. (2003). Temporal construal. Psychological Review, 110, 403-421.

Eyal, T., Liberman, N., Trope, Y., & Walther, E. (2004). The pros and cons of temporally near and distant Action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 86, 781-795.

Fujita, K. F., Trope, Y., Liberman, N., & Levin-Sagi, M. (2006). Construal Levels and Self-Control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 351-367.

Fujita, K. F., Henderson, M. D., Eng, J., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2006). Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events. Psychological Science , 17, 278-282.

Nussbaum, S., Liberman, N. & Trope, Y. (2006). Predicting the near and distant future. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 152-161.

Wakslak, S. J., Trope, Y., Liberman, N. & Alony, R. (2006). Seeing the Forest When Entry is Unlikely: Probability and the Mental Representation of Events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 641-653.

Bar-Anan, Y., Liberman, N., Trope, Y. (2006). The Association Between Psychological Distance and Construal Level: Evidence from an Implicit Association Test. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135,

  Liberman, N., Trope, Y., McCrae, S. M., & Sherman, S. J. (2007). The Effect of Level of Construal on the Temporal Distance of Activity Enactment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 143-149.

  Bar-Anan, Y., Liberman, N., Trope, Y., & Algom, D. (in press). The automatic processing of psychological distance: Evidence from a Stroop task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Knowledge activation

Forster, J., & Liberman, N. (in press). Knowledge activation. In: E. T. Higgins & A. W. Kruglanski (Eds.). Social Psychology: A Handbook of Basic Principles . New York : Guilford Press

Forster, J., Liberman, N., & Higgins, E. T. (2005). Accessibility from active and fulfilled goals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 220-239.

Forster, J., Liberman, N., & Friedman, R. S., (in press). Seven principles of goal activation: A systematic approach to distinguishing goal priming from priming of non-goal constructs. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Decision making

Liberman, N., Idson, L. C., & Higgins, E. T. (2005). Predicting the intensity of losses vs. non-gains and non-losses vs. gains: A test of the loss aversion explanation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 527-534 .

Liberman, N. & Forster, J. (2006). Inferences from decision difficulty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 290-306.

Thought suppression

Liberman, N. & Forster, J. (2000). The effect of expression after suppression: A motivational explanation of post suppressional rebound. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79 , 190-203.

Forster, J., & Liberman, N. (2001). The role of attribution of motivation in producing post-suppressional rebound. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81 , 377-390.

Regulatory focus

Liberman, N., Idson, L. C., Camacho, C. J., & Higgins, E. T., (1999). Promotion and prevention choices between stability and change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1135-1145.

Liberman, N., Molden, D. M., Idson, L. C., & Higgins, E. T. (2001). Promotion and prevention focus on alternative hypotheses: A regulatory focus perspective on attributional functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80 , 5-18.

Freitas, A. L., Liberman, N., & Higgins, E. T. (2002). Regulatory fit and resisting Temptation during goal pursuit. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 291-298.