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(B.A. in Psychology and Statistics (1966), M.A. in Psychology (1970), Ph.D. in Psychology (1975) *

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Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CH ...

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, website = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Gershon Ben-Shakhar (גרשון בן שחר; born May 25, 1942) is an Israeli

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. He served as President of the

Academic career

Gershon Ben-Shakhar earned a B.A. in Psychology and Statistics (1966), an M.A. in Psychology (1970), and a Ph.D. in Psychology (1975) from

. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at

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, from 1975 to 1976. Ben-Shakhar taught in the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1981 on, ultimately as a Professor and for a time as the Chair of the Department and the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. In 2003 he became President of the

, succeeding

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Published works

Along with John J. Furedy he wrote the book ''Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception: A psychophysiological and international perspective'' (New York:

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, 1990).

Awards and recognition

In 2011 he was an

Laureate.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ben-Shakhar, Gershon Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Northwestern University alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty Open University of Israel faculty Presidents of universities in Israel 1942 births Israeli psychologists EMET Prize recipients in the Social Sciences Israeli expatriates in the United States