| Gershon Ben-Shakhar | |
| Native Name: | גרשון בן שחר |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1942 |
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| occupation = | years_active = | employer = | organization = | known_for = President of the Open University of Israel| notable_works = | style = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | family = | awards = EMET Prize Israel Prize| website = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}Gershon Ben-Shakhar (גרשון בן שחר; born May 25, 1942) is an Israeli psychologist. He served as president of the Open University of Israel.[1] [2] [3]
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 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] [4] He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, from 1975 to 1976.[1]
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.[1] [5] [4]
In 2003 he became president of the Open University of Israel, succeeding Eliahu Nissim.[1] [4]
Along with John J. Furedy he wrote the book Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception: A psychophysiological and international perspective (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990).[1] [6]
In 2011 he was an EMET Prize Laureate.[4]