Professor Maya Benish-Weisman

Professor Benish-Weisman is the recipient of multiple research grants from competitive grant foundations, including the ERC consolidator grant, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel and the Jacobs Foundation. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and currently serves as a counseling editor of European Journal of Personality and Developmental Psychology. Her research focuses on driving positive change by exploring how personal values influence social behaviors in youth (prosocial and aggressive behavior). Her goal is to understand how various aspects of identity development affect adolescents' well-being.