Publications
My work is focused on theoretical and empirical exploration of how observing others' emotional reactions affects social judgments. I head the Laboratory for the Study of Social Perception of Emotions at the University of Haifa. For citation metrics see my Google Scholar profile.
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Hareli, S., & Siegel, J. T. (Eds.). Attribution handbook. Edward Elgar.
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Hess, U., Hareli, S., & Kafetsios, K. (Eds.). Research handbook on culture and emotion. Edward Elgar. Publisher
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Hareli, S. Drawing inferences from emotion expressions. In U. Hess, S. Hareli, & K. Kafetsios (Eds.), Research handbook on culture and emotion. Edward Elgar.
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Hareli, S., & David, S. (2026). Creating and validating photorealistic AI-generated facial expression stimuli for emotion research. Behavior Research Methods, 58, Article 296. doi:10.3758/s13428-026-03156-0 Open access
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Hess, U., Hareli, S., Kastendieck, T., Day, S. E., Huppertz, D., Mauersberger, H., & Kleck, R. E. (2026). Different smiles for different occasions: The influence of facial configuration and gaze direction on the perception of smiles. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10919-026-00524-4 Open access
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Mauersberger, H., Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2026). The effects of physical emotion intensity and perceived emotions on trait and ability judgments are non-linear. Scientific Reports, 16, Article 25698. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-65262-5 Open access
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Hareli, S., Hanoch, Y., Elkabetz, S., & Hess, U. (2025). Dressed emotions: How attire and emotion expressions influence first impressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 49, 249–269. doi:10.1007/s10919-025-00479-y Open access
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Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2025). Social influence of emotions. In R. Prislin (Ed.), Research Handbook on Social Influence (pp. 104–116). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. doi:10.4337/9781035309672.00014
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Kafetsios, K., Hess, U., Dostal, D., Seitl, M., Hypsova, P., Hareli, S., Alonso-Arbiol, I., Schütz, A., Grupa, D., Campbell, K., Chen, B.-B., Held, M. J., Kamble, S., Kimura, T., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Livi, S., Mandal, E., Ochnik, D., Sakman, E., Sumer, N., Theodorou, A., & Üskul, A. K. (2024). A contextualized emotion perception assessment relates to personal and social well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 104556. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104556 Open access
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Hess, U., Hareli, S., & Scarantino, A. (2023). What is it about your face that tells me what you want from me? Emotional appeals are associated with specific mental images. Cognition and Emotion, 38, 389–398. doi:10.1080/02699931.2023.2266991
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Seitl, M., Omastová, E., Sulejmanov, F., Hess, U., Hareli, S., Dostál, D., Hypšová, P. & Kafetsios, K. (2023). An emotional experience of work: Attachment orientations and emotion expressions to work-related film stimuli. Studia Psychologica, 65(4), 307–319.
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Hess U, Hareli, S, Kleck R.E. (2023). Emotion communication and person perception (pp. 3–24). In: Hess U, Adams Jr. R. B, & Kleck R. E. (Eds.), Emotion communication by the aging face and body: A multidisciplinary view. Studies in emotion and social interaction. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009209656.002
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Scarantino, A., Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2022). Emotional expressions as appeals to recipients. Emotion, 22, 1856–1868. doi:10.1037/emo0001023
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Hareli, S., David, O., Basis, F., & Hess, U. (2022). Does it pay to treat patients with Coronavirus disease 2019? Social perception of physicians treating patients with Coronavirus disease 2019. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(6104). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.781220 Open access
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Basis, F., Zaidani, H., Hussein, K., & Hareli, S. (2022). Drastic reduction in patient visits to the emergency department in a hospital in Israel during the covid-19 outbreak, compared to the H1N1 2009. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11, 429–433. doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2020.151 Open access
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Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2022). Apologies, forgiveness and the social perception of emotions. In G. L. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & B. C. Ng (Eds.), Handbook on Language and Emotion (Vol. 1, pp. 650–663). De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110347524-031
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Zickfeld, J.H., van de Ven, N., Pich, O. [et al. including Hareli S.] (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104–137. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137
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Hareli, S., Elkabetz, S., Hanoch, Y., & Hess, U. (2021). Social perception of risk-taking willingness as a function of expressions of emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(1815). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.655314 Open access
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Hareli, S., Vider, E., & Hanoch, Y. (2021). The influence of facial dominance on perceptions of risk-taking preferences. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 10, 283–306. doi:10.1080/01973533.2021.1929988
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Hareli, S., Katzir, G., & Lev-Yadun, S. (2020). The geographical enigma of top achievements in weightlifting. Advances in Anthropology, 10, 48–60. doi:10.4236/aa.2020.101004 Open access
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Hareli, S., David, O., & Hess, U. (2020). What facial expressions of emotions tell us about the health of others? Frontiers in Psychology, 11:585242. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585242 Open access
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Basis, F., Zaidani, H., & Hareli, S. (2020). Is emergency medicine as a new specialty cost effective: Our experience after 19 years? Annals of Trauma and Acute Care, 4, 1021.
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Hareli, S., Elkabetz, S., & Hess, U. (2019). Drawing inferences from emotion expressions: The role of situative informativeness and context. Emotion, 19, 200–208. doi:10.1037/emo0000368
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Hess, U., Dietrich, J., Kafetsios, K., Elkabetz, S., & Hareli, S. (2019). The bidirectional influence of emotion expressions and context. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 539–552. doi:10.1080/02699931.2019.1651252 Open access
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Edited Book
Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (Eds.). (2019). The social nature of emotion expression: What emotions can tell us about the world. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32968-6 Publisher
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Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2019). The emotion based inferences in context (EBiC) model (pp. 1–5). In U. Hess & S. Hareli (Eds.), The social nature of emotion expression. Springer, Cham.
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Hareli, S. & Hess, U. (2019). The reverse engineering of emotions – Observers of others' emotions as naive personality psychologists (pp. 103–118). In U. Hess & S. Hareli (Eds.), The social nature of emotion expression. Springer, Cham.
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Hareli, S., Elkabetz, S., & Hess, U. (2019). The use of emotions to infer norms and standards (pp. 199–208). In U. Hess & S. Hareli (Eds.), The social nature of emotion expression. Springer, Cham.
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Hareli, S., Smoly, M., & Hess, U. (2018). Help me Obi-Wan: The influence of facial dominance on perceptions of helpfulness. Social Influence, 13, 163–176. doi:10.1080/15534510.2018.1500944
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Hareli, S., Halhal, M., & Hess, U. (2018). Dyadic dynamics: The impact of emotional responses to facial expressions on the perception of power. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01993
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Hess, U., & Hareli, S. (2018). On the malleability of the meaning of contexts: The influence of another person's emotion expressions on situation perception. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 185–191.
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Hess, U., Landmann, H., David, S., & Hareli, S. (2018). The bidirectional relation of emotion perception and social judgments. Cognition and Emotion, 32(6), 1152–1165. doi:10.1080/02699931.2017.1388769
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Hess, U., Cossette, M., David, S., & Hareli, S. (2018). In life as on paper? The influence of emotions on personality perceptions in an interactive setting. Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics, 4, 21–29.
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Encyclopedia
Hareli, S. (2018). Attributional Theory. In B. F. Bruce (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. Sage.
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Hareli, S., & David, S. (2017). The effect of reactive emotions expressed in response to another's anger on inferences of social power. Emotion, 17, 717–727.
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Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2017). The social signal value of emotions: The role of contextual factors in social inferences drawn from emotion displays (pp. 375–392). In J. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.), The Science of Facial Expression. Oxford University Press.
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Hareli, S. & Hess, U. (2017). Facial Expressions and Emotion. In V. Ziegler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer International Publishing.
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Hareli, S., David, S., & Hess, U. (2016). The role of emotion transition for the perception of social dominance and affiliation. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 1260–1270.
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Hess, U., David, S., & Hareli, S. (2016). Emotional restraint is good for men only: The influence of emotional restraint on perceptions of competence. Emotion, 16, 208–213.
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Hess, U., Cossette, M., & Hareli, S. (2016). I and my friends are good people: The perception of incivility by self, friends and strangers. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12, 99–114.
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Hareli, S., David, S., Lev-Yadun, S., & Katzir, G. (2016). Money in your palm: Sharp-shaped vegetation in the surroundings increase the subjective value of houses. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 46, 176–187.
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Akron, S., Feinblit, O., Hareli, S., & Tzafrir, S. (2016). Employment arrangements diversity and work group performance. Team Performance Management, 22, 310–330.
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Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2016). The impact of context on the perception of emotions. In C. Abell & J. Smith (Eds.), The Expression of Emotion: Philosophical, Psychological, and Legal Perspectives (pp. 199–218). Cambridge University Press.
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Encyclopedia
Hareli, S. (2016). Social Emotions. In H. L. Miller (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. Sage.
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David, S., Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2015). Perception of truthfulness as a function of emotion expression accompanying attributions of a failure. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 11, 125–138.
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Hareli, S., Kafetsios, K., & Hess, U. (2015). A cross-cultural study on emotion expression and the learning of social norms. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:150.
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Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2015). The face as social context for the interpretation of emotional facial expressions. In M. K. Mandal & A. Awasthi (Eds.), Understanding Facial Expressions in Communication: Cross-Cultural and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 119–142). Springer.
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Hareli, S. (2014). Making sense of the social world and influencing it by using a naive attribution theory of emotions. Emotion Review, 6, 336–343.
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Hareli, S., Zohar, E., David, S., Lasalle, M., & Hess, U. (2014). Seeing what you ought to see: The impact of achievement norms on the perception of emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 600–608.
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Hess, U., Gryc, O., & Hareli, S. (2013). How shapes influence social judgments. Social Cognition, 31, 72–80.
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Hareli, S., David, S., & Hess, U. (2013). Competent and warm but unemotional: The influence of occupational stereotypes on the attribution of emotions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37, 307–317.
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Hareli, S., Moran-Amir, O., David, S., & Hess, U. (2013). Emotions as signals of normative conduct. Cognition and Emotion, 27, 1395–1404.
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Hareli, S., David, S., Akron, S., & Hess, U. (2013). Power and emotions in negotiations. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 9, 820–831.
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Hareli, S., Berkovitch, N., Livnat, L., & David, S. (2013). Anger and shame as determinants of perceived competence. International Journal of Psychology, 9, 1080–1089.
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Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2012). The social signal value of emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 385–389.
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Hareli, S., & Klos, D. (2012). The role of causal attribution in determining group members' emotional responses to failure. Review of Psychology Frontiers, 1, 27–36.
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Hareli, S., Sharabi, M., & Hess, U. (2011). Tell me who you are and I tell you how you feel: Expected emotional reactions to success and failure are influenced by knowledge about a person's personality. International Journal of Psychology, 46, 310–320.
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Hareli, S., Sharabi, M., Cossette, M., & Hess, U. (2011). Observers' expectations regarding the emotional reactions of others in a failure context: The role of status and perceived dominance. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 52–62.
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Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2010). What emotional reactions can tell us about the nature of others: An appraisal perspective on person perception. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 128–140.
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Hareli, S., Harush, R., Suleiman, R., Cossette, M., Bergeron, V., Lavoie, V., Dugay, G., & Hess, U. (2009). When scowling may be a good thing: The influence of anger expressions on credibility. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 631–638.
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Hareli, S., Shomrat, N., & Hess, U. (2009). Emotional versus neutral expressions and perceptions of social dominance and submissiveness. Emotion, 9(3), 378–384. doi:10.1037/a015958
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Tzafrir, S., & Hareli, S. (2009). Employees' emotional reactions to promotion decisions: The role of causal attributions and perceptions of justice. Career Development International, 14, 351–371.
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Hareli, S. & Parkinson, B. (2009). Social emotions. In D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Affective Sciences (pp. 374–375). Oxford University Press.
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Hareli, S., & Parkinson, B. (2008). What's social about social emotions? Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38, 131–156.
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Hareli, S., Klang, M., & Hess, U. (2008). The role of career history in gender-based biases in job selection decisions. Career Development International, 13, 252–269.
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Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2008). When does feedback about success at school hurt? The role of causal attributions. Social Psychology of Education, 11, 259–272.
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Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2008). The role of causal attribution in hurt feelings and related social emotions elicited in reaction to other's feedback about failure. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 862–880.
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Hareli, S., & Rafaeli, A. (2008). Emotion cycles: On the social influence of emotions in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 28, 35–59.
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Hareli, S., Rafaeli, A., & Parkinson, B. (2008). Emotions as social entities: Interpersonal functions and effects of emotion in organizations. In N. M. Ashkanasy & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), Research Companion to Emotion in Organizations (pp. 349–359). Edward Elgar.
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Hareli, S., Karnielli-Miller, O., Hermont, D., & Eidelman, S. (2007). Factors in the doctor–patient relationship that accentuate physicians' hurt feelings when patients terminate the relationship with them. Patient Education and Counseling, 67, 169–175.
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Hareli, S., & Tzafrir, S. (2006). The role of causal attributions in survivors' emotional reactions to downsizing. Human Resource Development Review, 5, 400–421.
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Hareli, S., & Eisikovits, Z. (2006). The role of communicating social emotions accompanying apologies in forgiveness. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 189–197.
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Blumen, O., & Hareli, S. (2006). How children feel about their fathers' work in the hi-tech sector. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 1, 317–335.
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Hareli, S., Weiner, B., & Yee J. (2006). Honesty doesn't always pay – the role of honesty of accounts for success in inferences of modesty and arrogance. Social Psychology of Education, 9, 119–138.
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Hareli, S. (2005). Accounting for one's behavior – What really determines its effectiveness? Its type or its content? Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 35, 359–372.
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Hareli, S., Shomrat, N., & Biger N. (2005). The role of emotions in employees' explanations for failure in the workplace. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 20, 663–680.
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Hareli, S., & Weiner, B. (2002). Social emotions and personality inferences: A scaffold for a new research direction in the study of achievement motivation. Educational Psychologist, 37, 183–193.
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Hareli, S., & Weiner, B. (2002). Dislike and envy as antecedents of pleasure at another's misfortune. Motivation and Emotion, 26, 257–277.
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Hareli, S., & Weiner, B. (2000). Accounts for success as determinants of perceived arrogance and modesty. Motivation and Emotion, 24, 215–236. doi:10.1023/A:1005666212320
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Hareli, S. (1999). Justice and deservingness judgments – refuting the interchangeability assumption. New Ideas in Psychology, 17, 183–193.
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Katzir, G., Strod, T., Schechtmann, E., Hareli, S., & Arad, Z. (1999). Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) are less capable to cope with light refraction than other herons are. Animal Behaviour, 57, 687–694.
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Hareli, S. (1997). The animal in man and man in the animal – on the roots of aggression, hatred and warfare. In A. Ben-Ze'ev (Ed.), Hatred (pp. 132–156). Zemora-Bitan. [In Hebrew]