Einat Elizarov

Einat Elizarov earned her MA and PhD in the accelerated track for outstanding students at the University of Haifa. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professors Maya Benish-Weisman and Yair Ziv, focused on the role of personal values in early childhood and their implications for the social and academic adjustment of kindergarten children.

Her research interests primarily focus on how personal values and social cognitive processes, including social information processing and biases in social judgment, interrelate, interact, and influence the ways children navigate educational settings and their broader social environments - both in terms of how they experience the social world and how they respond to it.

Throughout her PhD studies, Einat has earned numerous distinctions and scholarships, including the Azrieli Graduate Studies Fellowship Award, the Levtzion Scholarship Award, and the President Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students.

Recently, Einat was awarded the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship and will soon relocate with her beloved husband and two young children to the U.S. for postdoctoral studies at the Social and Moral Development Lab, led by Professor Melanie Killen at the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland.