A Full Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Head of the Swiss Center for Conflict Research Managmant and Resolution, and holds the Danny Arn old Chair in Communication. Prof. Maoz is a social psychologist researching psychology and media in conflict and intergroup relations. Her current main interests include cognitive processing of social and political information, dynamics of intergroup encounters in conflict, perceptual moral and cognitive aspects of conflict, peace and reconciliation, audience responses, and cognitive biases in conflict.