Ariel Knafo-Noam is a professor of developmental social psychology at the Psychology Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research interests concern the development of individual differences in social behavior and personal values, focusing on the effects of heredity and parenting on children’s development, as well as on the impact of children on their parents. Prof. Knafo-Noam earned his PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, following which he had a postdoctoral Kreitman fellowship in educational psychology at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and a postdoctoral fellowship in behavior genetics at King’s College London.