Daniel Bar-Tal is professor of psychology at the School of Education and director of the Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education, Tel Aviv University. He is also co-editor of the Palestine-Israel Journal. He served as the President of the International Society for Political Psychology (1999-2000). In 2000-2001 he was awarded the Golestan Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Science. His research interest is in political and social psychology studying psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace-making. Specifically, he focuses on those societal beliefs and collective emotional orientations which fed the conflicts and those which facilitate conflict resolution and reconciliation.

Publications include: Group Beliefs (Springer-Verlag, 1990), Shared Beliefs in a Society (Sage, 2000). Coedited Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations (Springer-Verlag, 1988), Stereotyping and Prejudice (Springer-Verlag, 1989), Patriotism in the Lives of Individuals and Nations (Nelson Hall, 1997) Concerned with Security (JAI, 1998), How Children Understand War and Peace (Jossey-Bass, 1999), Patriotism: Homeland Love (2004).