Prof. Ella Daniel

Positions

2014-2022 Assistant Professor (lecturer and senior lecturer), School Counseling and Special Education, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

2022-2023 Academic visitor, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK

Education

2001-2004       Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, B.A. Behavioral science, summa cum laude.

2006-2008       Hebrew University of Jerusalem, MA. Social and Organizational Psychology, magna cum laude

2008-2012       Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PhD. Developmental and Social Psychology.

Dissertation topic: Development of Values’ Contextualization among Majority and Immigrant Youth

Supervisor: Professor Ariel Knafo

2011-2014       University of Toronto. Post-doctoral studies

Supervisors: Professor Joan Grusec, Professor Tina Malti, and Professor Jennifer Jenkins

Prizes and awards

2023                Tel Aviv University, Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research

2017                Tel Aviv University, Leading young researcher, International women's day

2016                American Psychological Association, Early career achievement award

2013                National Centre for Institutional Diversity, Emerging Diversity Scholar Citation,

2012                International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Harry and Pola Triandis Doctoral Thesis Award, Runner-up

2011-2012       Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies, Arie Shachar Postdoctoral Fellowship for Canadian Studies

2010-2012       Martin & Vivian Levin Center for the Normal and Psychological Development of the child and adolescent, graduate studies award

2008                Martin & Vivian Levin Center for the Normal and Psychological Development of the child and adolescent, travel grant

2007                The Facet Theory Fund Award

2004-2009       Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduate studies fellowship,

2003                Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science

Dean's list of excellence

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, excellence fellowship, 2001-2005

Social development of children and adolescents, the role of the social environment in value development, family and social media effects on value development

Selected publications

Daniel, E., Arieli, S., & Akerman, L. (2024). The values of schools: An analysis of vision statements. European Journal of Psychology of Education, early view. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00886-7

Daniel, E., Misgav, K., & Chomsky, A. Middle childhood development in personal values. Journal of Personality, Early view. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12888

Knafo-Noam, A., Daniel, E, & Benish-Weisman, M. (2024). The development of values in middle childhood: Five maturation criteria. Current directions in Psychological Science, 33(1), 18-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231205865

Misgav, K., Shachnai, R., Abramson, L, Knafo-Noam, A., & Daniel, E. (2023). Personal values and sustained attention as predictors of children’s helping behavior in middle childhood. Journal of Personality 91(3), 773-778. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12773

Daniel, E., Dӧring, A., & Cieciuch, J. (2023). Development of intra-individual value structure in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation. Journal of Personality, 91(2), 482-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12742

Daniel, E., Benish-Weisman, M., Knafo-Noam, A., & Bardi, A. (2023). Longitudinal links between self-esteem and the importance of self-direction values during adolescence. European Journal of Personality, 37(1), 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211040978

Misgav, K., Daniel, E. (2022) Conceptualizing values abstractly: Development during middle childhood and the role of concept formation and working memory. Cognitive Development, 64, 101267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101267

Daniel, E., Fischer, R., Bardi, A., Benish-Weisman, M., Lee, J. A. (2022) Changes in Human values in pandemic times. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(2), 572-582. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211024026

Daniel, E., Benish-Weisman, M., Sneddon, J. N., & Lee, J. A. (2020). Value profiles during middle childhood: Developmental processes and social behavior. Child Development, 91(5), 1615-1630. doi:10.1111/cdev.13362 

Benish-Weisman, M., Daniel, E., Sneddon, J., & Lee, J. (2019). The relations between values and prosocial behavior among children: The moderating role of age. Personality and Individual Differences, 141, 241-247. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.019.

Daniel, E., & Benish-Weisman, M. (2019). Value development during adolescence: Dimensions of change and stability. Journal of Personality. 87(3), 620-632. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12420

Abramson, L., Daniel, E., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2018). The role of personal values in children's costly sharing and non-costly giving. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 117-134. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.03.007

Daniel, E., Plamondon, A., & Jenkins, J. (2018). An examination of the sibling-training hypothesis for disruptive behavior in early childhood. Child Development, 89, 235-247. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12754

Dӧring, A., Daniel, E., & Knafo, A. (2016). Introduction to the special section: Value development from middle childhood to early adulthood - New insights from longitudinal and genetically-informed research. Social Development. Early view. doi: 10.1111/sode.12177

Daniel, E., Dys, S., Buchmann, M., & Malti, T. (2016). Developmental trajectories of social justice values in adolescence: The role of sympathy and friendship quality. Social Development. Early view. doi: 10.1111/sode.12146

Daniel, E., Madigan, S., & Jenkins, J. (2016). Paternal and maternal warmth motivates preschoolers development of prosociality. Journal of Family Psychology, 30(1), 114-124. doi: 10.1037/fam0000120

Wade, M., Browne, D., Plamondon, A., Daniel, E., Jenkins, J. (2016). Cumulative risk disparities in children’s neurocognitive functioning: A developmental cascade model. Developmental Science, 19(2), 179-194. doi: 10.1111/desc.12302

Benish-Weisman, M., Daniel, E., & Knafo, A. (2015). Accumulative social role identifications and adolescents’ self-esteem. Journal of Adolescence, 44, 21-31. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.06.008.

Daniel, E., Dys, S. P., Buchmann, M., & Malti, T. (2014). Developmental relations between sympathy, moral emotion attributions, moral reasoning, and social justice values from childhood to early adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 37(7), 1201-1214. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.08.009  

Daniel, E., Bilgin, A. S., Brezina, I., Strohmeier, C. E., Vainre, M. (2014). Values and helping behavior: A study in five cultures. International Journal of Psychology, 50(3), 186-192. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12086.

Daniel, E., & Crabtree, M. (2014). Value differentiation and sexual orientation. Papers on Social Representations.

Daniel, E., Benish-Weisman, M., Knafo, A., & Boehnke, K. (2014). Personal and culture-dependent values as part of immigrant adolescent identity. A paper accepted for publication in R. K. Silbereisen , Y. Shavit and P. Titzmann (Eds.) The Challenges of Diaspora Migration in Today’s Societies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From Research in Israel and Germany. Ashgate Publishers.

Grusec, J. E., Saritas, D., & Daniel, E. (2014). What is effective parenting? A paper accepted for publication in S. Landry and C. Cooper (Eds.) Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume 1. Wiley-Blackwell.

 Daniel, E, Hofmann-Toufigh, N., & Knafo, A. (2013). School values: A new typology characterizing school level values across three cultures. Sage Open, 3(2) DOI: 10.1177/2158244013482469.

Daniel, E., Fortuna, K., Thrun, K. S., Cioban, S., & Knafo, A. (2013). Brief report: Adolescents' value development at war time. Journal of Adolescence, 36(4), 651-655. DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.009.

Daniel, E., Schiefer, D., Möllering, A., Benish-Weisman, M., Boehnke, K., & Knafo, A. (2012). Value differentiation in adolescence: The role of age and cultural complexity. Child Development, 83(1), 322-336, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01694.x.

Schiefer, D., Möllering, A., & Daniel, E. (2012). Cultural Value Fit of Immigrant and Minority Adolescents: The Role of Acculturation Orientations. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36(4), 486-497 doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2012.02.001.

Hadjar, A., Boehnke, K., Knafo, A., Daniel, E., Musiol, A. L., Schiefer, D., & Mӧllering, A. (2012). Parent-child value similarity and subjective well-being in the context of migration: An exploration. Family Science, 3(1), 55-63 doi: 10.1080/19424620.2011.671502.

Daniel, E., Schiefer, D., & Knafo, A. (2012). One and not the same: The consistency of values across contexts among majority and minority members in Israel and Germany. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 43(7), 1167-1184, DOI: 10.1177/0022022111430257.

Knafo, A., Daniel, E., Gabay, S., Zilber, R., & Shir, R.  (2012) Religion and the intergenerational continuity of values. In: G. Trommsdorff & X. Chen (Eds.). Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development, Cambridge University Press. 

Schiefer, D., Möllering, A., Daniel, E., & Benish-Weisman, M. (2010). Cultural values and outgroup negativity: A cross-cultural comparison of early and late adolescents. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(2), 635-651, doi: 10.1177/0022022112444898.

Knafo, A., Daniel, E., & Khoury-Kassabri, M. (2008).Values as protective factors against violent behavior in Jewish and Arab high schools in Israel, Child Development, 79(3), 652-667, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01149.x.

Current projects and grants:

2023-2028 European Research Council Starting Grant, Value Transmission in the Digital Age

How do children learn prosocial values? What is the role of parents-child interactions? And the role of influencers in social media?

2023-2028 Israel Science Foundation, Paren-Child Conversations on Prosocial Behavior

How do mothers and fathers discuss values with their children? Can they adapt the discussion to child characteristics to increase effectiveness of transmission?

2024 Israeli Ministry of Education, The role of Social Media in Cultivating Resilience Amidst War: Perspectives of Adolescents and their Parents

How do adolescents use the media in war time, to cope with stress? And what can parents do to increase positive media use?

2023-2025 Google, Educational Values in Human-Large Language Model Interactions

Do LLM's have values? And what values do we learn when interacting with them?