Hebel-Sela, S., Nir, N., Gruenwald, A., Hameiri, B., & Halperin, E. One size might not fit all: A Tailored Approach to Psychological Intergroup Interventions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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About
I am an incoming postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where I will work with Emily Falk and Yphtach Lelkes as part of the Penn-Kalaniyot Fellowship. I completed my PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, supervised by Eran Halperin (Hebrew University) and Boaz Hameiri (Tel Aviv University).
My research sits at the intersection of political communication, social psychology, and misinformation science. I study why people embedded in intergroup conflict become more susceptible to conspiracy theories and false narratives — and how the psychological dynamics of group identity shape what people believe and share. Crucially, I am equally invested in the other side of that question: how strategic communication can be leveraged to change beliefs and reduce intergroup hostility. My work combines large-scale field experiments, machine learning, and AI-delivered messaging interventions to develop and test approaches that can work at scale, across contexts, and for real people in the midst of real conflicts.
My research has appeared in journals including Communications Psychology, Political Psychology, Current Opinion in Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and is featured in edited volumes published by Routledge. I have been recognized with the Penn-Kalaniyot Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded; declined), the Halbert Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded; declined), and the President's Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.