Shira Hebel-Sela
shirahebelsela.bsky.social
Shira Hebel-Sela
@shirahebelsela.bsky.social
PhD candidate @picrlab (The Hebrew University) conspiracy theories, tailored psychological intergroup interventions
Aside from being the most supportive PhD advisor one could ask for, Boaz is also an inspiring researcher whose vision just earned him an ERC Starting Grant. So proud and happy celebrate this achievement! 🎉🥳
Absolutely stoked to share that the @erc.europa.eu decided to support my Starting Grant proposal, INTERVENE, aiming to develop a contextualized data-driven approach for psychological intergroup interventions. So grateful to the support of the ERC, mentors, colleagues and students!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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This is 1/4 of Israel's ENTIRE population, including children. On the streets.
Think how many protests you agreed with but didn't join in on.

Israelis REJECT Netanyahu's war. They want the hostages back and the genocide and starvation over.
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Thrilled to share that @eranhalperin75.bsky.social has been awarded ISPP's 2025 Sanford Award! 🏆 This honor recognizes his exceptional work in bridging political psychology research with real-world applications. Huge Congratulations Eran! 🎉 #ISPP2025
July 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I was lucky to be a Guest Editor for this Nature Collection on Group Diversity. Thank you to all who submitted work and reviewed!

Check out the collection here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Group diversity
The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology and Scientific Reports invite submissions to a Collection on the topic of group diversity.
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Up next, a tremendous paper led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social

finding that a semester-long virtual contact intervention improved attitudes, reduced dehumanization, and increased self-outgroup overlap among non-Muslim and Muslim students

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Virtual contact improves intergroup relations between non-Muslim American and Muslim students from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia in a field quasi-experiment - Communications Psychol...
Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization, offering a scalable...
www.nature.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🧵Excited to share two publications I've recently worked on! First, a chapter on "Personalized Psychological Intergroup Interventions" in Richard Petty, Andy Luttrell & Jacob Teeny's new Handbook of Personalized Persuasion 📚 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Personalized Psychological Intergroup Interventions | 18 | A Three-Fac
The rise in intergroup animosity has led social and political psychologists to shift toward a more interventionist approach. However, unlike other scientific
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March 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization.
@shirahebelsela.bsky.social @boazhameiri.bsky.social
@eranhalperin75.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Virtual contact improves intergroup relations between non-Muslim American and Muslim students from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia in a field quasi-experiment - Communications Psychol...
Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization, offering a scalable...
www.nature.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Can emotion regulation interventions spread from treated to non-treated people in a group?
We examine this question in a paper published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, led by Michael Pinus and Yajun Cao.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions - Nature Communications
Here the authors show that an emotion regulation intervention for reducing negative intergroup emotions in conflicts can decrease negative emotions not only in treated participants but also in nontrea...
www.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Following the implementation of policies that were the "extreme version far beyond mainstream conservative positions" people in Israel shifted to the left on issues

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#socpsyc #polisky
January 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how?

Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)
December 17, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Political hope, anyone? When are leaders go fascist, previous supporters of those leaders actually go less fascist.
See our registered-report longitudinal study, led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social, Lee Aldar, and @taloharel.bsky.social, with Boaz Hameiri and Eran Halperin, here:
tinyurl.com/3py5n6vb
December 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Finally made the jump to bluer skies :)
Looking forward to sharing and discussing research here in the future!
If you're curious about my past work you can check out my website: www.ericshuman.com
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October 27, 2023 at 8:52 PM