Research interests: Dr. Katzir’s research examines emotions and self-regulation – how people distribute effort in the course of goal pursuit; how consideration of their future emotions motivates actions; and how people regulate emotions to achieve better outcomes.

In recent years, Dr. Katzir has focused her efforts on understanding behavior in social interactions, with a specific interest in people’s automatic behavioral tendencies (e.g., to either trust or mistrust) and their social preferences (e.g., fairness and trust). Dr. Katzir also studies emotions in social interactions, and specifically social consequences of failing to express appropriate disgust as well as social consequences related to the essentializing nature of this emotion.