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Prof.Tal Moran, Associate Professor

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The Open University of Israel Department of Education and Psychology 1 University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:09-7781471 Email:talmo@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Social cognition
  • Attitude formation
  • Automatic evaluation
  • Automatic stereotyping
  • Implicit measures
  • Evaluative conditioning
  • Emotion-regulation
  • Open science

I am an Associate professor of Social Psychology. One line of my research focuses on automatic social behavior and cognition, specifically on implicit/automatic attitudes and stereotypes. Another line of my research focuses on emotion regulation and the role of the construal level (concrete versus abstract thinking) in the regulation of different types of emotions.

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2017
PhD, Social Psychology, Ben Gurion University
2012
MA, Social Psychology, Ben Gurion University
2008
BA Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Ben Gurion University
2024
Associate Professor, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University of Israel
2021-2024
Senior Lecturer, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University of Israel
2018-2021
Postdoctoral research scientist, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University. Belgium
2017-2018
Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University
2022
Alon fellowship - award for outstanding young researchers- Council for Higer Education.
2019
The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) Travel Grant.
2018
Council for Higer Education Scholarship - A twq years postdoctoral reseach scholarship.
2016
Kreitman Scholarship - A two years postdoctoral reseach scholarship.

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Moran, T., Amit, A., & Butbul, D.  (2026). The enduring effect of exposure to moral exemplars during active intergroup tensions: Evidence from groups within Israel. Social Psychological and Personality Science.https://doi.org/10.1177/194855062614289

Mattavelli, S., Rougier, M., & Moran,T. (in press). What causes what: Causal diretionality modertes evaluative conditioning effests. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Moran, T., & Walther, E. (2026). Learning to like the enemy: Moral learning reduces affective polarization. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 17(3), 302-314. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506251343667

Moran, T., Krava, L., & Shilat, Y. (2025). A Systematic review and meta-analysis: The impact of evaluative conditioning interventions on attitudinal and behavioral change. Psychological Bulletin, 151(8), 1061-1088. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000489

Trzewik, M., Navon, M., Moran, T., Wardi, H., Langer, A., Hadad, B. S., Sofer, C., & Reggev, N. (2025). The Israeli Face Database (IFD): A multi-ethnic database of faces with supporting social norming data. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02723-1

Rougier, M., Van Dessel, P., Moran, T., & Smith, T. C. (2025). Can Approach-Avoidance Instructions Influence Facial Representations? A Distinction Between Past- and Future-Oriented Inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 119, 104756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104756

Navon, M., Reggev., N, & Moran, T. (2025). Top-down racial biases in size perception: A registered replication and extension of Wilson et al. (2017). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 116, 104690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104690

Moran, T., & Eyal, T. (2025). Are members of political outgroups more morally or physically disgusting? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 51(7) 1281 –1293. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231213127

Nudler, Y., Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2025). An assimilative effect of stimulus co-occurrence on evaluation despite contrasting relational information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 51(3), 480-492. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231196046

Amit, A., Liviatan, I., Mentser, S., Venzhik, E., Karmel, Y., & Moran, T. (2024). Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 115, 104669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104669

Moran, T. (2024). The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psycholog, 112, 104602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104602

Bornstein, O., #Moran, T., Simchon, A., & Eyal, T. (2023). The effect of psychological distance on the experience of joy versus pride. Social Cognition, 41(4), 341-364. #Equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.4.341

Moran, T., Nudler, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2023). Evaluative Conditioning: The past, present, and future. Annual Review of Psychology, 74, 245-269. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-032420-031815

Moran, T., & Eyal, T. (2022). Emotion regulation by psychological distance and level of abstraction: Two meta-analyses. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 26(2), 112-159.

Moran, T., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). The role of trait inferences in Evaluative Conditioning. Collabra: Psychology, 8(1), 31738. 

Moran, T., Cummins, J., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Examining automatic stereotyping from a propositional perspective: Is automatic stereo-typing sensitive to relational and validity information? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.  

De Houwer, J., Van Dessel, P., & Moran, T. (2021). Attitudes as propositional representations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(10), 870-882.

Moran, T., Bornstein, O., & Eyal, T. (2021). The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core vs. moral disgust. Emotion, 21(2), 391–404.

Moran, T., Hughes, S., Hussey, I., Vadillo, M. A., Olson, M. A., Aust, F., Bading, K., Balas, R., Benedict, T., Corneille, O., Douglas, S. B., Ferguson, M. J., Fritzlen, K. A., Gast, A., Gawronski, B., Giménez-Fernández, T., Hanusz, K., Heycke, T., Högden, F., … De Houwer, J. (2021). Incidental attitude formation via the Surveillance Task: A Registered Replication Report of Olson and Fazio (2001). Psychological Science, 32(1), 120-131.

Moran, T., Van Dessel, P., Smith, T. C., & De Houwer, J. (2021). Can (instructions about) stimulus pairings influence automatic and self-reported evaluations in the presence of more diagnostic evaluative information? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(8), 1249-1263.

Moran, T., Polisar, T., & Bar Anan, Y. (2020). Testing a judgment-related account for the extinction of Evaluative Conditioning. Cognition and Emotion, 34(8), 1690-1703.

Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., Hughes, S., Kasran, S., Cathelyn, F., & Moran, T. (2020). Reflecting on twenty-five years of research using implicit measures: Recommendations for their future use. Social Cognition, 38(Supplement), s223-s242.

Moran, T., & Bar Anan, Y. (2020). The effect of co-occurrence and relational information on speeded evaluation. Cognition and Emotion, 34(1), 144-155.

De Houwer, J., Van Dessel, P., & Moran, T. (2020). Attitudes beyond associations: On the role of propositional representations in stimulus evaluation. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 61, 127-183.

Moran, T., & Bar Anan, Y. (2018). How actions change liking: The effect of an action's outcome on the evaluation of the action's object. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(11), 1597-1618.

Bar Anan, Y., & Moran, T. (2018). Simple first: A skeleton for an evaluative learning model. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13, e28761.

Axt, J., R., Moran, T., & Bar Anan, Y. (2018). Simultaneous ingroup and outgroup favoritism in implicit social cognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 275-289

Moran, T., Bar Anan, Y., & Nosek, B. A. (2017). The effect of the validity of co-occurrence on automatic and deliberate evaluation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 708-723.

Moran, T., Bar Anan, Y., & Nosek, B. A. (2016). The assimilative effect of co-occurrence on evaluation above and beyond the effect of relational qualifiers. Social Cognition, 34(5), 435-461.

Moran, T., Bar Anan, Y., & Nosek, B. A. (2015). Processing goals moderate the effect of co-occurrence on automatic evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 157-162.‏

Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2013). The effect of object-valence relations on automatic evaluation. Cognition and Emotion, 27, 743-752.

Moran, T. & Walther, E. (2025). Learning to Like the Enemy: Moral Learning Reduces Affective Polarization. Paper presented at the 2025 annual conference of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), Lisbon, Portugal.

Moran, T., & Amit. A. (2025). Moral exemplars in active, enduring tensions: Reducing explicit and implicit intergroup bias among Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Prague, Czech Republic.

Moran, T. & Walther, E. (2025). Learning to Like the Enemy: Moral Learning Reduces Affective Polarization. Paper presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Denver, CO.

Moran, T. & Eyal, T. (2024). Are Members of Political Outgroups More Morally or Physically Disgusting? Paper presented at the 2024 small meeting on social identity, Kent University, UK.

Moran, T. (2023). Attitudes of others moderate the effect of behavioral information on automatic and self-reported evaluations. Paper presented at the 2023 EASP meeting on the psychology of attitudes, Bath, UK.

Moran, T., Cummins, J., Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2023). Examining automatic stereotyping from a propositional perspective. Paper presented at the 19th general meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Krakow, Poland.

Moran, T. & Eyal, T. (2023). The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core vs. moral disgust: Implications for disgust elicites by political out-group members. Paper presented at the 2023 Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE), Haifa, Israel

Moran, T., & Eyal, T.  (2022). Emotion regulation by psychological distance and level of abstraction – type of emotion as an important moderator. Oral presentation at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) annual conference, in Philadelphia, October, 2022.

Moran, T., Cummins, J., Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Examining automatic stereotyping from a propositional perspective. Oral presentation at the Person Memory Interest Group (PMIG) meeting, in Lehigh Valley, October, 2022.  

Moran, T., Nudler, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2022). Evaluative Conditioning: The past, present, and future. Oral presentation at the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) Transfer of Knowledge Conference, in Milan, August, 2022.

Moran, T., Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). The impact of counter-stereotypical exposure on automatic stereotyping depends on validity information. Oral presentation at the Conference of Experimental Psychologists, an Online Conference, March, 2022.

Moran, T., & Eyal, T.  (2022). Emotion regulation by psychological distance and level of abstraction – type of emotion as an important moderator. Oral presentation at the 9th Israeli Conference on Cognition Research (ISCOP), an Online Conference, February, 2022.

Moran, T., Cummins, J., & De Houwer, J. (2021). Examining automatic stereotyping from a propositional perspective. Oral presentation presented at the Conference of Experimental Psychologists, an Online Conference, March, 2021.

Moran, T., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The moderating role of diagnosticity in Evaluative Conditioning (EC) of implicit and explicit evaluations.  Oral presentation presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), in New Orleans, February, 2020.

Moran, T., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2020). Incidental attitude formation via the Surveillance Task: A pre-registered replication of Olson and Fazio (2001).  Oral presentation presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), in New Orleans, February, 2020.  

Moran, T., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2019). The effect of diagnosticity in Evaluative Conditioning.  Oral presentation at the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) Transfer of Knowledge Conference, in Bordeaux, September, 2019.

Moran, T., Bornstein, O., & Eyal, T. (2019). Different level of construal involved in the elicitation and regulation of core and moral disgust. Presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) Conference, in Paris, March, 2019.

Moran, T., & Eyal., T. (2017). Different level of construal involved in the elicitation and regulation of core and moral disgust. Oral presentation at the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) Transfer of Knowledge Conference, in Gdansk, August, 2017.

Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2017). The effect of an action's outcome on the evaluation of the action's object. Oral presentation at the 18th general meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), in Granada, July, 2017.

Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2017). The effect of an action's outcome on the evaluation of the action's object. Presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), in San Antonio, January, 2017.

Moran, T., Bar-Anan, Y., & Nosek, B., A. (2016). The effect of associative and propositional information on evaluation. Oral presentation at the EASP meeting on the psychology of attitudes, at Cologne University, July, 2016.  

Moran, T., Bar-Anan., Y., & Nosek, B., A. (2015). The effect of an action's outcome on the evaluation of the action's object. Oral presentation at the 4th Israeli PhD Students Conference in Social Psychology, at the Tel-Aviv University, December, 2015.

Moran, T., Bar-Anan, Y., & Nosek., B., A. (2015). Processing goals moderate the effect co-occurrence on automatic evaluation. Presented at the 19th general meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) in Paphos, Cyprus, September, 2015.

Moran, T., Bar-Anan, Y. & Nosek, B., A. (2015). The effect of the validity of co-occurrence on automatic and deliberate evaluation. Presented at the 16th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), in Long-Beach, February, 2015.

Moran, T., Bar-Anan, Y., & Nosek, B., A. (2014). Processing goals moderate the effect of associative information on automatic evaluation. Oral presentation at the 3th Israeli PhD Students Conference in Social Psychology, at the Haifa University, December, 2014.  

Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2014). The effect of means valence on goal evaluation. Presented at the 17th general meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), in Amsterdam, July, 2014.

Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2013). The effect of object-valence relations on automatic evaluation. Presented at the 18th general meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) in Budapest, Hungary, September 2013.

Moran, T., Bar-Anan, Y. (2012). Relations and attitude formation. Oral presentation at the 1th Israeli PhD Students Conference in Social Psychology, at the Hebrew-University Jerusalem, December, 2012.