Professor in the Educational and School Psychology Program of the Education Department at Ben-Gurion University. He conducts research in the areas of parenting style, parental characteristics and children’s tendencies of temperament as factors influencing the nature of their internalization of parents’ expectations and values; promoting learning motivation and consideration of others in school and in the family; the effects of close parental supervision and support of autonomy during adolescence on risk behaviors, violence and criminality; conditioning parental love and its effects on parent-child relations and the formation of an internal compass as a basic component of autonomous functioning.

He holds a PhD in psychology from Michigan State University (US), received in 1981.