At the Social Development Lab, I lead the Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins, and Project בגלל הרוח of war coping. I study child/adolescent development of individual differences in social behavior and values, focusing on the effects of genetics and parenting– and children’s impact on parents. Spanning personality psychology, developmental psychology, and behavioral genetics, my studies address genetic, environmental, and developmental contributions to personality, altruism empathy, values and psychopathology. My most exciting project uses diverse methods (eye-tracking, cross-cultural, and pol