Dr.
Liad
Uziel
CV
Positions
2016-Present: Senior Lecturer (tenured)– Bar-Ilan University – Psychology Department (Social/Organizational area).
2011–2014, 2015–2016 (5 years): Head of the Social/Organizational area.
2010–2016: Lecturer – Bar-Ilan University – Psychology Department (Social/Organizational area).
2009-2010: Instructor-Dr. - Bar-Ilan University – Psychology Department (Social/Organizational area).
Post-Doc
2007-2008: Florida State University – Psychology Department –Baumeister/Tice Lab (Supervisor: Prof. Roy F. Baumeister).
2007: The Open University of Israel – Psychology and Education (Supervisor: Prof. Sonia Roccas).
Education
PhD – 2007: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Organizational Behavior (Supervisor: Prof. Avi N. Kluger).
MA (Magna Cum Laude) – 2001: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Social Psychology.
BA (Summa Cum Laude) – 1996: Bar-Ilan University – Psychology (major) and Political Science (minor).
Awards
- Scientific Innovation Award (Bar-Ilan University, 2021).
- Outstanding Lecturer Award (Bar-Ilan University, 2019).
Professional Affiliations
Association for Research in Personality (ARP)
European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Professional Service
Reviewer for Journals:
Basic and Applied Social Psychology; British Journal of Psychology; Cognition & Emotion; Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience; Cross-Cultural Research; European Journal of Psychological Assessment; Frontiers in Psychology (Personality and Social Psychology) – Review Editor; International Journal of Psychology; International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Journal of Counseling Psychology; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Happiness Studies; Journal of Individual Differences; Journal of Language and Social Psychology; Journal of Organizational Behavior; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Personality Assessment; Journal of Psychosomatic Research; Journal of Research in Personality; Judgment and Decision Making; Mexican Journal of Psychology; Nature Communications; Personality and Individuals Differences; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Perspectives on Psychological Science; Psychological Assessment; Psychological Science; Psychology of Sport & Exercise; Polish Psychological Bulletin; Scientific Reports; Self & Identity; Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal; Social and Personality Psychology Compass; Social Science Research; Studia Psychologica; The Psychological Record.
Reviewer for Research Foundations:
ANR - The French National Research Agency
BSF - United States-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (Reviewr and Panel member)
GIF - German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research
HMRF - Health and Medical Research Fund – Hong-Kong
ISF – Israel Science Foundation
NSF – National Science Foundation - United States
Publications
Journal Articles
Uziel, L., (2021). Letter to the Editors of Psychological Science: The ego-depletion puzzle: Lessons learned from the social facilitation effect: Regarding Vohs et al. (2021). Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.25384/SAGE.16622378.v2
Rodriguez, J.E., Holmes, H.L., Alquist, J.L., Uziel, L., & Stinnett, A., J. (in press) Self-controlled responses to COVID-19: Self-control and uncertainty predict responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02066-y
Uziel, L., Baumeister, R. F., & Alquist, J. L. (2021). What makes people want more self-control: A duo of deficiency and necessity. Motivation Science, 7(3), 242–251. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000213
Uziel, L. (2021). The language of being alone and being with others. Social Psychology, 52(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000430
Uziel, L. & Cohen, B. (2020). Self-deception and discrepancies in self-evaluation. Journal of Research in Personality, 88, 104008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104008
Schmidt-Barad, T. & Uziel, L. (2020). When (state and trait) powers collide: Effects of power-incongruence and self-control on prosocial behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 162, 110009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110009
Uziel, L., Seemann, M., & Schmidt-Barad, T. (2020). From being alone to being the only one: Neuroticism is associated with an egocentric shift in an alone context. Journal of Personality, 88, 339-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12494
Uziel, L. (2018). The intricacies of the pursuit of higher self-control. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(2), 79–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417744322
Itzchakov, G., Uziel, L., & Wood, W. (2018). When attitudes and habits don’t correspond: Self-control depletion increases persuasion but not behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2017.10.011
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2017). The self-control irony: Desire for self-control limits exertion of self-control in demanding settings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(5), 693-705. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217695555
Uziel, L. (2016). Alone, unhappy, and demotivated: The impact of an alone mind-set on neurotic individuals' willpower. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(8), 818-827. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616657597
Uziel, L. (2015). Life seems different with you around: Differential shifts in cognitive appraisal in the mere presence of others for neuroticism and impression management. Personality and Individual Differences, 73, 39-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.023
Uziel, L., & Hefetz, U. (2014). The selfish side of self-control. European Journal of Personality, 28(5), 449-458. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1972
Uziel, L. (2014). Impression management ("lie") scales are associated with interpersonally oriented self-control, not other-deception. Journal of Personality, 82(3), 200-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12045
Ornoy, H., Levi-Nishri, G., & Uziel, L. (2014). The relationship between personality, gender and adjustment to a foreign culture: Comparative research between expatriates and business trip travelers. International Journal of Business Administration, 5(3), 122-135. https://doi.org/10.5430/ijba.v5n3p122
Uziel, L. (2012). Asymmetry in self-other agreement on attachment style among romantic partners. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 223-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.12.001
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2012). The effect of public social context on self-control: Depletion for neuroticism and restoration for impression management. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(3), 384-396. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211427310
Uziel, L. (2010). Look at me, I'm happy and creative: The effect of impression management on behavior in social presence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1591-1602. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167210386239
Uziel, L. (2010). Rethinking social desirability scales: From impression management to interpersonally oriented self-control. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(3), 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691610369465
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2009). Personality and behaviour: A neglected opportunity? European Journal of Personality, 23(5), 433-435. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.725
Wilf-Miron, R., Uziel, L., Aviram, A., Carmeli, A., Shani, M., & Shemer, J. (2008). Adoption of cost-consciousness: Attitudes, practices and knowledge among Israeli physicians. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 24(1), 45-51. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462307080063
Uziel, L. (2007). Individual differences in the social facilitation effect: A review and meta-analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(3), 579-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.06.008
Uziel, L. (2006). The extraverted and the neurotic glasses are of different colors. Personality and Individual Differences, 41(4), 745-754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.03.011
Marom, M., Uziel, L. & Naon, D. (2002). Children with Disabilities in Risk Situations: A Literature Review. Social Security: Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies, 63, 35-68. [Hebrew] http://www.jstor.org/stable/23275928
Conference presentations
Uziel, L. (July, 2016) – Alone, unhappy, and demotivated: The impact of an “alone” mind-set on neurotic individuals' willpower. Paper presented at the 2016 European Conference on Personality (ECP 18). Timisoara, Romania.
Uziel, L. (July, 2015) – The selfish side of self-control. Paper presented at the 2015 European Congress of Psychology. Milan, Italy.
Uziel, L. (July, 2014). The selfish side of self-control. Paper presented at the 2014 general meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Amsterdam, Holland.
Uziel, L. (May, 2013). The ironic implication of wanting more self-control. Poster presented at the 25th convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Washington DC, USA.
Uziel, L. (July, 2012). Self-control motive: Implications of a desire to have more self-control. Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Personality (ECP 16). Trieste, Italy.
Uziel, L. (May, 2012). Some truths about lie scales. Paper presented at the 2012 Personality in Israel Conference, Jerusalem, Israel.
Uziel, L. (2011, June). The Ironic Dynamic of the Cognitive Appraisal Process Associated with Neuroticism. Paper presented at the 2011 ARP conference, Riverside, CA.
Uziel, L. (2010). On the contribution of impression management to self-control in public social contexts. Paper presented at the 15th European Conference on Personality (ECP 15). Brno, Czech Republic.
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2010). Self-control motive: On the manifestation and implication of wanting to have more self-control. Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP 2010). Las-Vegas, NV.
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2009). The effect of social presence on self-control: Ego-depletion among neurotics and ego-replenishment among individuals high in social desirability. Poster presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP 2009). Tampa, FL.
Uziel, L., Sagiv, L., & Roccas, S. (2008). Getting to know you: Values, traits, and an acquaintanceship process in a longitudinal study of dormitory roommates. Poster presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP 2008). Albuquerque, NM.
Uziel, L., Sagiv, L., & Roccas, S. (2008). Your social desirability is the cause of my personal unhappiness: On the effect of social desirability on roommates' relationship quality, satisfaction with life, and acquaintanceship. Poster presented at the 2008 conference of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP). Albuquerque, NM.
Uziel, L. (2007). Look at me, I’m happy and creative: On social desirability in social presence. Poster presented at the 8th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP 2007). Memphis, TN.
Uziel, L. (2006). Social desirability and social facilitation: The perfect match? Paper presented at the 13th European Conference on Personality (ECP 13). Athens, Greece.
Uziel, L. (2005). Individual Differences in the Social Facilitation Effect: A Review. Poster presented at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP 2005). New Orleans, LA.
Uziel, L. (2005). The extraverted glasses and the neurotic glasses are of different colors. Poster presented at the 2005 conference of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP). New Orleans, LA.
Uziel, L. (2004). Social Facilitation: A question of individual differences? Paper presented at the 12th European Conference on Personality (ECP 12). Groningen, TheNetherlands.
Uziel, L. (2003). Cognitive evaluation as a basis for emotional reactivity of extraverts and neurotics. Poster presented at the 11th biennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID). Graz, Austria.
Courses
|
Level |
Sem |
Time |
Room |
# |
Course |
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Grad |
A |
Wed 08:00 |
301 |
60-842 |
Individual Differences |
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Grad |
A & B |
Tue 14:00 |
102 |
60-913 |
Advanced Research in Social Psychology |
|
Grad |
A & B |
Tue 16:00 |
301 |
60-921 |
Social Psychology Colloquium |
|
Undergrad |
A & B |
Thu 10:00 |
102 |
60-413 |
Practicum |
|
Undergrad |
B |
Thu 08:00 |
009 |
60-682 |
Individual Differences in Social Behavior |
Research interests
Research Fields
In my research I endorse the idea that information from the social world is processed through the prism of personal meaning (conscious or non-conscious), and that personal meanings are largely affected by personality traits. I therefore aim to understand social phenomenon in interaction with personality traits, and to study personality traits with reference to the social reality in which they are materialized.
At the Individual Differences in Social Behavior Lab (IDSBL) we study the following topics:
SOCIAL DESIRABILITY/IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT: What scales of social desirability measure and what is it that they fail to measure? What are the motivations behind social desirability? What are the real life implications of social desirability? What are the contexts in which a high social desirability score predicts adaptive behavior, and when does social desirability predict maladaptive responses?
Related work:
Uziel, L. & Cohen, B. (2020). Self-deception and discrepancies in self-evaluation. Journal of Research in Personality, 88, 104008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104008
Uziel, L. (2015). Life seems different with you around: Differential shifts in cognitive appraisal in the mere presence of others for neuroticism and impression management. Personality and Individual Differences, 73, 39-43. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.023]
Uziel, L. (2014). Impression management ("lie") scales are associated with interpersonally oriented self-control, not other-deception. Journal of Personality, 82(3), 200-212. [https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12045]
Uziel, L. (2012). Asymmetry in self-other agreement on attachment style among romantic partners. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 223-226. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.12.001]
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2012). The effect of public social context on self-control: Depletion for neuroticism and restoration for impression management. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(3), 384-396. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211427310]
Uziel, L. (2010). Look at me, I'm happy and creative: The effect of impression management on behavior in social presence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1591-1602. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167210386239]
Uziel, L. (2010). Rethinking social desirability scales: From impression management to interpersonally oriented self-control. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(3), 243-262. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691610369465]
SELF-CONTROL & DESIRE FOR SELF-CONTROL Self-control is crucial for adaptation. In the Lab, we try to understand the role of one's motive to have more self-control (using a newly-developed self-control motive questionnaire, with state and trait versions) on actual self-control in varying conditions, and more broadly, how the combination of a want (motive) and an ability (actual self-control) affects satisfaction with life, emotion, cognition, and behavior.
Related work:
Rodriguez, J.E., Holmes, H.L., Alquist, J.L., Uziel, L., & Stinnett, A., J. (in press) Self-controlled responses to COVID-19: Self-control and uncertainty predict responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02066-y
Uziel, L., Baumeister, R. F., & Alquist, J. L. (2021). What makes people want more self-control: A duo of deficiency and necessity. Motivation Science, 7(3), 242–251. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000213
Schmidt-Barad, T. & Uziel, L. (2020). When (state and trait) powers collide: Effects of power-incongruence and self-control on prosocial behavior. Personality and Individual Differences. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110009]
Uziel, L. (2018). The intricacies of the pursuit of higher self-control. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(2), 79–84. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417744322]
Itzchakov, G., Uziel, L., & Wood, W. (2018). When attitudes and habits don’t correspond: Self-control depletion increases persuasion but not behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 1-10. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2017.10.011]
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2017). The self-control irony: Desire for self-control limits exertion of self-control in demanding settings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(5), 693-705. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217695555]
Uziel, L., & Hefetz, U. (2014). The selfish side of self-control. European Journal of Personality, 28(5), 449-458. [https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1972]
Uziel, L. (2012). Asymmetry in self-other agreement on attachment style among romantic partners. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 223-226. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.12.001]
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2012). The effect of public social context on self-control: Depletion for neuroticism and restoration for impression management. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(3), 384-396. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211427310]
BEING ALONE, BEING WITH OTHERS: The effect of social presence on behavior. How does having another person observe you affect your feelings, cognition, and behavior? Social presence is a demanding yet ambiguous interpersonal situation. A meta-analysis showed that the effects of social presence largely depends on the actor's personality (Uziel, 2007). My research aims at understanding how individuals perceive and respond in this basic social context. In recent years, I have placed increasing emphasis on understanding the Alone condition and its effect on psychological functioning.
Related work:
Uziel, L. (2021). The language of being alone and being with others. Social Psychology, 52(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000430
Uziel, L., Seemann, M., & Schmidt-Barad, T. (2020). From being alone to being the only one: Neuroticism is associated with an egocentric shift in an alone context. Journal of Personality, 88, 339-355. [https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12494]
Uziel, L. (2016). Alone, unhappy, and demotivated: The impact of an alone mind-set on neurotic individuals' willpower. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(8), 818-827. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616657597]
Uziel, L. (2015). Life seems different with you around: Differential shifts in cognitive appraisal in the mere presence of others for neuroticism and impression management. Personality and Individual Differences, 73, 39-43. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.023]
Uziel, L. (2012). Asymmetry in self-other agreement on attachment style among romantic partners. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 223-226. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.12.001]
Uziel, L., & Baumeister, R. F. (2012). The effect of public social context on self-control: Depletion for neuroticism and restoration for impression management. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(3), 384-396. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211427310]
Uziel, L. (2010). Look at me, I'm happy and creative: The effect of impression management on behavior in social presence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1591-1602. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167210386239]
Uziel, L. (2007). Individual differences in the social facilitation effect: A review and meta-analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(3), 579-601. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.06.008]
Media
My Lab's research has been featured by the following media outlets:
- 7 Ways to Reset Your Relationship [New-York Times]
- Time alone saps the willpower of people who are neurotic [Psychology Today]
- What other people think about us matters: Here's why [Scientific American]
- Wishing for more self-control can backfire [New-York Magazine]
- De schaduwzijde van zelfdiscipline [Psychologie Magazine (Dutch)]
- How to develop more self-control according to science is probably the opposite of what you think [Bustle]
- Self-control isn't always good for you [Curiosity.com]
- Thousands enjoyed 'enforced' alone time during lockdown, study reveals – here's how to make the most of it [yahoo!news]
- 3 things you must do to make a good impression in a new job [Fast Company]
- Solidão é sofrimento? Especialistas apontam as vantagens de estar sozinho [Correio Braziliense]
- מדוע אנשים פחות מוכשרים משיגים מה שאתם לא? [Globes.co.il]
Grants
Research Grants
- 2017-2021 - Israel Science Foundation (ISF) - Research Grant – The self-reduction effect: Understanding neurotic individuals’ experience in public social contexts [sole PI] (632,400NIS).
- 2017-2019 - United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) – Research Grant – Implications of desire for self-control [PI, in collaboration with Prof. Roy Baumeister, Florida State University, and Dr. Jessica Alquist, Texas Tech University] ($150,000).
- 2017 - SPSP Small Research Grant - Utilizing a desire for more self-control into an effective facilitator of self-control ($1500).
- 2011-2013 - Israel Science Foundation (ISF) - Research Grant - A test of competing models about the core characteristics that account for individual differences along impression management scales. (190,000NIS)
- 2003-2006 - Israel Foundations Trustees (Ford Foundation) - Doctoral Grant - The Social Facilitation Effect: Personality Moderation and Emotional Mediation. ($6000).
Awards
- Scientific Innovation Award (Bar-Ilan University, 2021).
- Outstanding Lecturer Award (Bar-Ilan University, 2019).
- The Rector award for research, Bar-Ilan University (2012).
- The Rector award for research, Bar-Ilan University (2011).
Laboratory
The IDSB (Individual Differences in Social Behavior) lab
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International, students, interns, and post-doctoral fellows are very welcome!
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Last Updated Date : 19/12/2021