Academic staff

Prof. Maya Tamir

Social Psychology area coordinator
Phone:  02-5883405
Email: tamirm@mscc.huji.ac.il

Office: Social sciences building 3525


Research: Emotions, Emotion Regulation

Teaching: Personaliy; Emotion; Emotion regulation A+B

General

תמיר מאיה, פרופ'
We study what people want to feel and why. We examine whether and how people can benefit from their emotions, whether they try to use their emotions in ways that are helpful to them, and how they learn about the potential consequences of their emotions.

See this webpage in Hebrew.
 
Representative work:
 
Tamir, M. (2009). What do people want to feel and why? Pleasure and utility in emotion regulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 101-105.
 
Tamir, M., Mitchell, C., & Gross, J. J. (2008). Hedonic and instrumental motives in anger regulation. Psychological Science, 19, 324-328.