Prof. Thalma Lobel received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Tel Aviv University and her post doctoraltraining from Harvard University. Prof. Lobel has served as Head of the Psychology Department and as the Dean of Students of Tel Aviv University. As Dean of students prof. Lobel was in charge of many social involvement programs of Tel Aviv University aimed to decrease the gaps in the Israeli society. Her area of interests are social development, gender differences and gender related inferences and judgments,cross cultural issies in gender role development.