Elisha Babad shared his research with Media Education Lab team members and friends.
Elisha
Babad is Anna Lazarus Professor of Educational and Social Psychology
and former Dean of the School of Education at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
He received his BA degree from the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem in 1967, and his PhD in psychology (minor in Education)
from Duke University in 1971.Over the years, he taught at Wellesley
College (1971), University of Pennsylvania (1979-1981), University of
Waikato in New Zealand (1990), Princeton University (1995), University
of Edinburgh (2002), and University of Buenos Aires (2007).
He
investigated self-fulfilling Pygmalion and Golem effects in the
classroom, teachers' susceptibility to bias and their differential
classroom behavior, "the teachers' pet phenomenon," and also phenomena
of wishful thinking in prediction of elections and sports competitions.
Recent research examines thin slices of teachers' nonverbal
behavior in higher education and in high school, and the prediction of
students' evaluations from such thin slices. Current research includes
students' perceptions and judgments of teachers, students' decision
making processes in selecting and in dropping courses, and the
psychological price of media bias, investigated through the nonverbal
behavior of TV interviewers and its effects of viewers' impressions of
the interviewee.