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Dr. Gal Harpaz

Dr. Gal Harpaz
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The Open University of Israel 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107
Office:972-9-778-1440 Fax:972-9-778-0632 Email:[email protected]

Areas of Interest
  • Psychology of helping relations
  • Intergroup relations
  • Parent-teacher-child relations
  • Music and art education
  • Performance psychology

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1999-2004
Phd. - Psychology department, Tel-Aviv University.
"Helping Relations in a Social Identity Perspective: The role of ingroup identification, threat to group identity, normative context and task difficulty on giving help to the outgroup".
1997-1998
M.A. (magna cum laude), Social Psychology - Psychology department, Tel-Aviv University.
1992-1996
B.A. (magna cum laude), Psychology department, Tel-Aviv University.
2022-2026
Management Committee Member (Israeli representative) in the European Cooperation of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Action (CA201102) “Toolkit of Care”. The European Union.
2022
Research grants - Students’ achievements and well-being predicted by psychological coping resources, cultural consumption and lifestyle. (The Open University of Israel)
2022
Conference participation grant: Music Self-Efficacy of Amateur Musicians Who Used Online Music Tutorials During Covid-19. AERA 2022, San-Diego. (The Open University of Israel)​
2021
Research grants: Development and Validation of the Parental Help-Giving Questionnaire (The Open University of Israel)
2021
Conference participation grant: Retuning Music Teaching: Online Music Tutorials as Predictors of Music Self-Efficacy in informal music learning. AERA 2021. (online) (The Open University of Israel)
2020
Research grants: Could a virtual reality physical activity experience promote one's well-being? (The Open University of Israel)
2020
Conference participation grant: Effects of Help-Seeking Orientation (HSO) and Type of Help Received on Help Seeking Behavior and Performance. SPSP 2020. New Orleans (The Open University of Israel)
2019
Conference participation grant: Israeli Parents’ Involvement in Homework: Goals, Parental Motivations for Engaging and Assisting with Homework. AERA 2019. Toronto (The Open University of Israel)
2018
Conference participation grant: Parent-Teacher Relations, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parents' Help Seeking from Teachers. AERA 2018. New York (The Open University of Israel)
2016-2018
Research grant: Effects of help-Seeking orientation and the type of help received on performance and future help seeking. (The Open University of Israel)
2014
Conference participation grant: Helping Relations and Help Seeking Orientation. International Conference of Social Science and Education, Cornell University.  New York (The Open University of Israel)​
2009
Excellence Award for Teaching Coordinators - Department of Education and Psychology (The Open University of Israel)
2005-2006
Research grant for PhDs (The Open University of Israel)
2005
Research grant for post-PhD Project: Helping relations as power relations: The role of ingroup identification and giving help to the outgroup. (The Open University of Israel)
2003
Scholarship for excellence for PhD students. (The Open University of Israel)
2002
Scholarship for excellence for research students. (Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences - Tel Aviv University)
2001-2002
Doctoral Fellowship. Research grant for PhD Project. Helping Relations in a Social Identity Perspective. (The Open University of Israel)
1999-2002
Research grant for PhD Project. Helping Relations in a Social Identity Perspective. (Israel Foundation Trustees)
2001
A grant in support of Ph.D. project. Helping Relations in a Social Identity Perspective. (Lion Foundation for Israeli-German research cooperation)
2009-2017
Group facilitator in art mentors' course of the Ministry of Education. Seminar Hakibutzim college and Wingate Institute.
2004-2016
Group facilitator in the Educational Psychological Service (SHEFFI), Ministry of Education.
2009-2014
Group facilitator in interns training program in the education system, Mofet Institute.
2006-2009
Academic Advisor, research evaluation of the experimental program for social leadership Ostrovsky high school, Raanana, Israel
1996-1998
Research Assistant, to Professor Greenhouse, head of psychiatric division, Shiba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer.
1994-1997
Responsible for training and behavioral therapy in the psychosomatic department for children and youth, Shiba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer.
1995-1996
Research Assistant, Psychological Research Unit, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

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Yaffe, Y., Grinshtain, Y. & Harpaz, G. (2024). Overparenting in Parents of Elementary School Children: The Direct Association with Positive Parent-Child Relationship and the Indirect Associations with Parental Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being. Journal of Child Family Studies. 

Shchory, S., Nitzan, K., Harpaz, G., and Doron, R. (2024). "Not Just a Game": The Effect of Active Versus Passive Virtual Reality Experiences on Anxiety and Sadness. Virtual Reality, 28, 20.

Grinshtain, Y., & Harpaz, G. (2023). Factors That Shape Helping Relations Between Parents and Teachers: The Case of Israeli Arab and Jewish Parents. School Community Journal, 33(1), 165-190.‏

Harpaz, G., Vaizman, T., & Yaffe, Y. (2023). University students' academic grit and academic achievements predicted by subjective well-being, coping resources, and self-cultivation characteristics. Higher Education Quarterly, 00, 1–20.

Seroussi, D.-E., Peled, Y., Sharon, R., Rothschild, N., Halperin Barlev, O., Weissblueth, E., & Harpaz, G. (2023). ‘A Different Voice’ in Peer Feedback: Gender Specificity in Students’ Willingness to Provide Peer Feedback. Education Sciences, 13(7), 654. 

Grinshtain, Y., Harpaz, G., & Yaffe, Y. (2023). Parental Help-Giving Orientations Scale (PHGOs) in Children’s Learning: Construction and Validation. Education Sciences, 13(4), 363.

Grinshtain, Y, and Harpaz, G. (2023). Factors That Shape Helping Relations Between Parents and Teachers: The Case of Israeli Arab and Jewish Parents. School Community Journal. 33(1) 165-190.  

Grinshtain, Y., Harpaz, G. and Yaffe, Y. (2022). Parents helping their children with homework and learning at home: Construction of a measurement tool and its initial validation through mixed method research. Education time, 8, 113-134. (Hebrew). 

Harpaz, G., & Vaizman, T. (2022). Music self-efficacy predicted by self-esteem, grit, and (in)formal learning preferences among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials. Psychology of Music. 

Vaizman T., and Harpaz, G., (2022). Retuning Music Teaching: Online Music Tutorials Preferences as Predictors of Amateur Musicians' Music Self-Efficacy in Informal Music Learning. Research Studies in Music Education.

Harpaz, G., Grinshtain, Y., Yoffe, J. (2021). Parental Self-Efficacy Predicted by Parents’ Subjective Well-being and Their Parenting Styles with Possible Role of Help-Seeking Orientation from Teachers. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 155(6), 571-587.

Grinshtain. Y., and Harpaz, G. (2021). Whose Homework is it? Different Types of Parents' Dependent Help-Giving in Homework​. The Elementary School Journal, 122(2), 233-256.

Harpaz G., and Vaizman T. (2021). Music Self-Efficacy, Self-Esteem and Help-Seeking Orientation, among Amateur Musicians Who Use Online Music Tutorials. Psychology of Esthetics Creativity and the Arts.

Harpaz, G., & Grinshtain, Y.  (2020). Parent-Teacher Relations, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parents' Help Seeking from Teachers about Children's Learning and Socio-Emotional Problems. Education and Urban Society, 52(9), 1397–1416.

Abadu, C., Josef, G., Harpaz, G. (2018). (Hebrew). The impact of focused training on the decision making of young goalkeepers in a football match. Ruach Ha-Sport (The spirit of sport), 4, 29-45.

Komissarouk, S., Harpaz, G. and Nadler, A. (2017). Dispositional differences in seeking autonomy- or dependency-oriented help: Conceptual development and scale validation. Personality and Individual Differences, 108, 103–112. 

Nadler A, Halabi S, Harapz-Gorodeisky G, Ben-David Y. (2010). Helping relations as status relations. In: Mikulincer M, Shaver PR (Eds.).  Prosocial motives, emotions, and behavior: the better angels of our nature. (181-200). American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Nadler, A., Harpaz-Gorodeisky, G. & Ben-David, Y. (2009). Defensive Helping: Threat to Group Identity, Ingroup Identification, Status Stability and Common Group Identity as Determinants of Intergroup Help-giving. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(5), 823-834.

Nadler, A., Halabi, S. & Harpaz-Gorodeisky, G. (2009). Intergroup helping as status organizing processes: Implications for intergroup misunderstandings. In S. Demoulin, J.P. Leyens, & J.F. Dovidio (Eds.), Inter-group misunderstandings: Impact of divergent social realities. (311-331). Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Washington, DC.

Nadler, A., Halabi, S., & Harpaz- Gorodiesky, G. (2008). Helping relations as status maintenance mechanism. S. Demoulin, J.P. Leyens, & J.F. Dovidio (Eds.), Inter-group misunderstandings: Impact of divergent social realities. (313-327). Psychology Press: Washington, DC.

Beyth-Marom, R., Harpaz-Gorodeisky, G., Bar-Haim, A., & Goder, E. (2006). Identification, motivation and job satisfaction among tutors at the Open University of Israel. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning [Online] 7(2).

Becher, A., Guri-Rosenblit, S., Harpaz, G. (2023). Teaching: Profession, art & craft. Instruction study guide. The Open University of Israel: Raanana. 

Harpaz, G. (2018). The history of psychology: Instruction study guide. The Open University of Israel: Raanana.

Harpaz, G., Chajut, E., & Algom, D., (Eds.) (2018). The history of psychology (reader). The Open University of Israel: Raanana.

Nadler, A., and Harpaz-Gorodeisky, G. (1999). The history of psychology: Instruction study guide. The Open University of Israel: Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv.

"Helping Relations in a Social Identity Perspective: The role of in-group identification, threat to group identity, normative context and task difficulty on giving help to the out-group". (2004). Hebrew. 154 pages. Tel Aviv University. Supervisor: Prof. Arie Nadler.

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Editorial Board Member, PLOS ONE

Guest Editor, MDPI-EDUCATION SCIENCES

The European Cooperation of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Action Committees. THE EUROPEAN UNION. Israeli representation.

2024 - SPSP's Annual Convention, San Diego, USA. Prediction of Personal and Social Music Consumption Habits by Savoring Art, Human vs. Algorithmic Music Mentors Preferences and Open Mindedness. Lecturer.

2023 - European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, Scotland. The Connection between Savoring Art and Personal Growth among University Students from the UK, USA, Canada, and Israel. 

2023 - Global Digital Music Studies conference, New York, USA. Learning Music Using Online Tutorials: Predicting Amateur Musicians' Music Self-efficacy in Two International Studies - Lecturer

2023 - World Summit of Arts Education, Madeira, Portugal. In an Era of Pandemic: Savoring Art, Self-efficacy and Well-being as Predictors of Students' Personal Growth - Lecturer

2023 - The Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA (online). Academic Grit and Subjective Academic Success Predicted by Psychological Coping Resources, Well-Being, and Savoring Art - Lecturer

2022 - AERA 2022 American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting of the AERA, San Diego, USA - Considering music teaching and pedagogy - Chair

2022 - AERA 2022 American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting of the AERA, San Diego, USA - Music Self-Efficacy of Amateur Musicians Who Used Online Music Tutorials During Covid-19 - Lecturer

2022 - SPSP 2022, The Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention, San Francisco, USA - Music Self-Efficacy Predicted by Grit, Self-Esteem, and Amateur Musicians’ Preferences while Using Online Music Tutorials - Lecturer

2021 - ECER 2021, European Conference on Educational Research, Genève, Switzerland. (online) - Retuning Music Teaching: Online Music Tutorials as Predictors of Music Self-Efficacy in informal music learning. NW29 - Lecturer

2021 - ECER 2021, European Conference on Educational Research, Genève, Switzerland. (online) - Creative Methods in Educational Artistic Practices and Research. NW29. - Symposium participant

2021 - AERA 2021 American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting of the AERA (online) - Examination of Social Emotional Learning with Children. Social and Emotional Learning. SIG. - Discussant

2021 - AERA 2021 American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting of the AERA (online) - Determinants and Influences of Psychosocial Factors in College Success. Division J. - Discussant

2020 - SPSP 2020, The Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA. - Effects of Help-Seeking Orientation and Type of Help Received on Help-Seeking Behavior and Performance. - Lecturer

2019 - AERA 2019, American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting of the AERA. Toronto, Canada. - Israeli Parents’ Involvement in Homework: Goals, Parental Motivations for Engaging and Assisting with Homework - Lecturer

2018 - MAHUT conference, Lewinsky College. Israel. - Parent-Teacher Relations, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parents' Help Seeking from Teachers. - Lecturer

2018 - AERA 2018, American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting of the AERA. New York City, USA. - Parent-Teacher Relations, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Parents' Help-Seeking from Teachers about Children's Learning and Socio-Emotional Problems. - Lecturer

2014 - International Conference of Social Science and Education, Cornell University. New York- USA. - Helping Relations and Help Seeking Orientation: Personal and Interpersonal Implications and Performance in Educational Context. - Keynote speaker.

2005 - European Association for Experimental Social Psychology, Wurzburg, Germany. - "Gentle Dominance": Intergroup Helping Relations. - Lecturer

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  • 1997-today History of psychology 10524 - B.A. Advance Undergraduate course in psychology - Coordinator and instructor. Academic development and writing.

  • 2005-today Identification with groups 10575 - B.A. Advance Undergraduate course in psychology - Coordinator and instructor. Advisor of empiric seminar papers. 

  • 2006-today Seminar workshop in advance courses in psychology 91442 - B.A. Advance Undergraduate empiric seminar in psychology - Academic development and instructor.

  • 2016-today Teaching: Profession, art & craft 10363 - B.A. Advance Undergraduate course in education - Course coordinator. Advisor of seminar papers. 

  • 2001-2005 Cross cultural psychology 10557 - B.A. Advance Undergraduate course in psychology - Coordinator and instructor. Advisor of empiric seminar papers. 

  • 2019-today Seminar in Intergroup relations - B.A. Seminar advance course in psychology - IDC Herzeliya

  • 2018-2020 Psychology society and culture - B.A. advance course in psychology - IDC Herzeliya

  • 2018-2020 Intergroup relations - M.A in social psychology - IDC Herzeliya

  • 2012-2013 Qualitative research methods - M. A. in Health and Physical Education - Seminar Hakibutzim

  • 2010-2013 Interpersonal communication - M.A. in Education Management and Organization - Gordon Academic College of education

  • 2009-2013 Supervision of empirical final projects for M.A. - M.A. in Education Management and Organization - Seminar Hakibutzim and Gordon Academic College of education

  • 2006-2012 Academic writing course for M.A. students - M.A. in Math education - Seminar Hakibutzim

  • 1998-2001 Social psychology and introduction to psychology - B.A. in School of social work - Tel Aviv University

  • 1997-1998 History of psychology and social psychology (teaching assistant) - B.A. In psychology - Tel Aviv University