faculty member
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- Prof. Moshe Zeidner
- Full Professor
- Psychology
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- [email protected]
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*Personality and individual differences
*Stress, anxiety, and coping
*Positive Psychology
*Motivations and emotions
*Psychological and educational measurement
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Moshe Zeidner is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology and Human Development at the University of Haifa, Israel and Professor of Psychology at Tel-Hai Academic College. He held the position of Dean of Research at the University of Haifa from 2000 to 2005. His main fields of interest are in the area of human emotions, personality and individual differences (with particular concern for the interface of personality and intelligence, emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and the stress, anxiety, and coping process), and psychoeducational assessment. He is currently Series Editor (along with Donald H. Saklofske) of the Springer book series on Human Exceptionality. He is the author or co-editor of 10 books and author of over 250 scientific papers and chapters. He was the founding Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Emotions and is Scientific Director of the Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research in Personality and Emotion. He held temporary visiting academic positions in both the U.S. ( Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, UC-San Diego) and in Europe (Oxford, Leiden, Regensburg, Charles). He received the 'Lifetime achievement award' for outstanding contribution to stress and anxiety research at the meeting of the Society for Stress and Anxiety Research in July, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal. His book, Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth (MIT Press, 2002, with G. Matthews & Rick Roberts) received an award from the US Society for Academic Book Publishers for the year 2003. His co-authored book on What We Know About Emotional Intelligence received the PROSE award for 2009.
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Educational Psychology, Gifted Students, Positive Psychology
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- Courses taught in recent years
Title
Year
Type
Level
Educational Testing
1989-present
Lecture
Undergraduate
Graduate
Anxiety: Theory and Research
1990-present
Research Seminar
Undergraduate and Research
Models of Stress and Coping
1990-present
Research Seminar
Undergraduate
Stress, Anxiety, and Coping: Theory and Research
1990-present
Research Seminar
Undergraduate
Intelligence: Theory, Research, Assessment
1990, 1993
Research Seminar
Graduate
Personality and Intelligence
1996 , 1998
Research Seminar
Doctoral Level
Emotional Intelligence : Theory, Research, Applications
2006 to present
Research Seminar
Undergraduate
Emotions: Theory and Research
2007
Research Seminar
Undergraduate—Honors Students
Brain and Behavior
2008
Lecture
Undergraduate
Advances in Research on Brain and Behavior
2009
Seminar
Graduate
Adult Psychology
2009
Seminar
Graduate
Positive Psychology 2010 Seminar Undergraduate
Research Methods 2012 Seminar Doctoral Students
Psychology of Happiness 2012 Course Undergraduate
Measurement/Test Theory 2016 Course Graduate
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- Recipient of Award for Lifelong Contribution to Stress, Anxiety and Coping Research, awarded by the Society of Stress and Anxiety Research, Lisbon, Portugal, July, 2003.
- Honorable Mention by the American Academic Publishing Society for publication of Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth. (MIT Press, 2002).
- Referenced in the 2009 and 2012 version of "Who's Who in the World."
- American Association of Publishers professional award for scholarly excellence (PROSE) for the outstanding book on Biomedicine and Neuroscience for 2009 (What we know about emotional intelligence).
- Research grant (1989) from the Research and Development Department of Consulting Psychologists Press (Palo Alto, CA, 1990) for investigation of key correlates of individual differences in coping resources.
- Research Grant (1992) for studying psychometric characteristics of teacher’s grading procedures.
- Six intramural grants (1987-1992) from the Research Committee of the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa
- Research Grant from Center of Educational Administration of the University of Haifa, to study "Perceptions of Grading Practices in Teachers and Students" (1992).
- Grant from the Council for higher Education ('Vatat') to prepare bi-national research proposal on "Speed of Information” (1994)
- Receipt of special award grant from the Research Authority of University of Haifa to prepare proposal on "Evacuation Stress." (1995)
- Grant from the Council for Higher Education (‘Vat at’) to acquire physiograph for research on anxiety (1996).
- Three-year competitive research grant (for the period of 1996-1998) from the Ministry of Science to study “Reactions of Youth to Uncertainty on the Golan” {75,000 shekels, per year}
- Two- year competitive grant (for the period of 1996-1998) from the Ford Foundation to test a “Transactional Model of Stress and Coping” {25, 000 dollars}
- One-year grant (100,000 shekels) from Ministry of Science to study “Stress and Coping among children on the Golan”
- Two- year competitive grant ( for the period of 2002-2004) from the Ford Foundation to study “Emotional intelligence and coping with stress” {17, 000 dollars}
- Grant from Army Research Institute and ETS ($100,000) to organize international conference on “Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns,” with Rick Roberts, Pat Kyllonen, and Gerald Matthews, November 2003, ETS.
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