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Selected recent publications

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Living Between Binaries: Why Do Liminal Youth Have Higher Suicide Risk? 

Pamela Morris-Perez, Adam Benzekri, Ella Ben Hagai, Jade Ma

Child Development Perspectives 2026

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Integrating Geopolitics into the Psychological Study of Intergroup Conflict and Violence: The Role of Collective Narratives

Ella Ben Hagai and Rezarta Bilali 2025

Journal of Social Issues

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Living with the Dissonance and the Ethics of Multiple Truths: American Jews in Israel/Palestine

Ella Ben Hagai, Cassandra Reid & ​Sebastian Lopez-Padilla 2025

Journal of Jewish Education

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Everyday Palestinian Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery to Violent Israeli Occupation: An Interview Study.

Abir Ayesh, Ella Ben Hagai 2025

Journal of Health Psychology

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Trans Across Generations: Shifts in Narratives of Gender, Transphobic Violence, and Community Support

Yalda Farokhi, Vanessa Mendoza, Ella Ben Hagai, Em Sanders, Tamar Antin & Paulina Ortega 2024

Sex Roles

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Queer Theory and Psychology: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgender Identities

Ella Ben Hagai and Eileen L. Zurbriggen 2022

Springer Press

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Changes in Lesbian identity in the 21st century

Ella Ben Hagai 2022

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Undoing the Gender Binary 

Charlotte Chucky Tate, Ella Ben Hagai, Faye J. Crosby 2020

Cambridge University Press

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Intersecting sexual identities, oppressions, and social justice work: Comparing LGBTQ Baby Boomers to Millennials who came of age after the 1980s AIDS epidemic

Ella Ben Hagai, Rachelle Annechino, Nicholas Young, Tamar Antin 

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Obituary of Ronald L. Cohen 

Ella Ben Hagai, Faye J. Crosby, and Kjell Törnblom

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Bridging Narratives: Predictors of Jewish American and Arab American Support for a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Ella Ben Hagai and Eileen Zurbriggen, 2019

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“We Didn’t Talk About the Conflict”: The Birthright Trip’s Influence on Jewish Americans’ Understanding of the Israeli– Palestinian Conflict

Ben Hagai, E., Whitlatch, A., & Zurbriggen,

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 2018 

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Intersecting Alliances: Non-Palestinian Activists in Support of Palestine

Hill, S., Ben Hagai, E., & Zurbriggen, E. L.

 Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2018

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Between Tikkun Olam and Self-Defense: Young Jewish Americans Debate the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Ella Ben Hagai, Eileen L. Zurbriggen

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Vol 5, No 1, 2017
 

Support for Socialist Policies: The Ideological Logic of Everyday Practices

Ella Ben Hagai, Eileen L. Zurbriggen
Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2016

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Between Relative Deprivation and Entitlement: An Historic Analysis of the Battle for Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

Ella Ben Hagai, Faye J. Crosby, in C. Sabbaga, M. Schmidt (Eds.)
The Handbook of Social Justice Research, New York, NY: Springer Publications, 2016

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Queering Bem: Theoretical Intersections between Sandra Bem's Scholarship and Queer Theory

Brandon Balzer Carr, Ella Ben Hagai, Eileen L. Zurbriggen
Sex Roles, 2015

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Reflections on Harmdoing 

Ella Ben Hagai, Faye J. Crosby
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 2015

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Beliefs Predicting Peace, Beliefs Predicting War: Jewish Americans and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Ella Ben Hagai, Eileen L. Zurbriggen, Phillip L. Hammack and Megan Ziman
Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2013


Shifting Away from a Monolithic Narrative on the Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians and Americans in Conversation

Ella Ben Hagai, Phillip L. Hammack, Andrew Pilecki, and Carissa Aresta
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 2011

Classes

Social Psychology

California State University, Fullerton 

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Intersections Between Queer Theory and Psychological Research

Bennington College, Bennington, Spring 2017 (current)


Self, Identity, and Ideology

Bennington College, Bennington, Spring 2017 (current)

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Political Psychology

Bennington College, Bennington, Fall 2016

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Studying Narratives of Conflict

University of California, Santa Cruz, Winter 2016

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Conflict & Compassion: A Speaker Series on Israel/Palestine
University of California, Santa Cruz, Winter 2014

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Introduction to Statistics
University of California, Santa Cruz, Summer 2015

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Lifespan Development

San Jose State University, Fall 2015

Topics

Social Psychology, Narrative Psychology, Intergroup Conflict, Israel/Palestine and the Diaspora

Feminist Studies, Queer Theory

Middle East Studies

Emerging Adults

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