Elyakim Kislev

Hebrew University of Jerusalem | HUJI · Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance

Happy Singlehood charts a way forward for singles to live life on their terms, and shows how everyone--single or coupled--can benefit from accepting solo living. Based on personal interviews, quantitative analysis, and extensive review of singles' writings and literature, author Elyakim Kislev uncovers groundbreaking insights on how unmarried peop...

In light of the growing unmarried demographic, this study analyzed the extent and determinants of sexual satisfaction among seven relationship-status groups: married, never married, and those who are divorced/separated, where the latter two groups are further divided into single, living apart together (LAT), and cohabiting. In addition, the study m...

With the rise of individualism and post-materialist values comes the fall in the importance of marriage. However, it is still not clear how these two processes affect each other in terms of individuals’ wellbeing and happiness. Thus, the aim of this paper is to gain a better understanding of how happiness may be moderated by post-materialist values...

Vast changes to the status of marriage in modern society have impacted the demographic makeup of many countries. Particularly in the Western world, a growing portion of the population comprises of singles that may be separated, divorced, widowed, or never married. Faced with this change, it is crucial for researchers and policymakers to understand...

In light of the new wave of immigrants and asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to Europe, this paper investigates some of the challenges of the previous phases of immigration of MENA immigrants in order to propose how to best address the needs of the new one. In particular, this paper looks at the relationship between differ...

Cultural, political, and legal changes in the 21st century have changed the landscapes in which our close interpersonal relationships take place. Many choose to remain single or get married later. Online dating and cohabitation are more readily accepted and common. Our friendships, especially on social media, have gained importance. Issues surround...

Very little attention has been paid in the literature to singlehood as an identity. Existing research can be divided into the reasons for singlehood on one side and the implications of being single on the other side, while mostly leaving singlehood itself a “black box.” Therefore, this article first surveys the two existing scholastic streams. Seco...

This article underscores the importance of recognizing the diversity and intricacy of singlehood and transcending a simplistic view of singles as a monolithic group. By adopting an intersectional approach, researchers can obtain a deeper understanding of singles' experiences and identify their unique needs. Moreover, this understanding has profound...

Recent developments foretell that social robots will soon become an integral part of everyday life, offering companionship and intimate closeness of different kinds. While research thus far is limited in scope and data, the current research offers two studies into how and why gender affects social robots’ acceptance among European and American part...

Marriage rates are declining in prevalence in the Western world, and relationship formats are more varied. These significant demographic changes demand new, more nuanced analyses sensitive to relationship-status variations. Moreover, the different groups may have differing work-behavior patterns, influencing and interacting with their work-life bal...

This research estimates how changes in admiration and rivalry narcissistic traits correlate with changes in relationship satisfaction over time. Longitudinal analyses based on data from the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) studies were used to investigate this question. Findings show associations between height...

Very little attention has been paid to relationship desire and its consequences. The existing literature on relationship desire and life satisfaction among singles provides mixed findings from a limited range of datasets. To address this significant gap in the literature, this study uses the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynam...

This chapter examines the effect of agricultural technology on society. The agricultural period marks a fundamental change in the technological means of producing food, having shelter, and moving around. Although the agricultural period is only a fraction of the hunting-gathering era, it was significant enough to affect human society, family format...

This chapter focuses on Relationships 5.0. In the context of relationships, the fifth era of human development refers to three revolutions. These include the cognitive revolution, or how humans will converse with artificial intelligence; the sensorial revolution, or how extended reality will augment what humans see, hear, and even smell; and the ph...

This chapter addresses the sensorial revolution, presenting current and future developments of extended reality (XR) technologies, usually referred to as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). It is clear that though XR technologies are creating environments that people want to use, many still do not feel completely c...

A trailblazing inquiry into human love and relationships in the age of super-smart technology Technology is our new life partner. No longer confined to the sidelines, new interactive technologies like AI therapists, avatar friends, and robot assistants are ready to transform technology's role from basic tools of convenience to intimate elements of...

This chapter shows how relationships and kinships, which have progressed throughout human history, reached a new level in the recent information age. In the information society, the individual stands as the focal point of human society. Television, computers, the Internet, and smartphones brought a process of atomization and individualization to so...

This chapter examines the ethics of emerging technologies, considering the questions these technologies raise. One can think of three major types of problems being faced in the age of Relationships 5.0: problems on “their” side, the in-between, and “our” side. The first type of problems concerns how artificial beings are designed and whether there...

This chapter details the Industrial Revolution, during which inventions such as steam power and electricity changed humans’ lives drastically as factories producing goods with overwhelming speed and efficiency began to spread around the world. In turn, the industrial society carried significant implications for marriage and relationships. Although...

This chapter assesses the cognitive revolution, looking at the evolution of artificial intelligence and recent developments in the field. Having some type of a relationship with AI is not necessarily down to technological capability, but rather to social norms and public acceptance. In other fields besides relationships, statistics show that people...

This concluding chapter reflects on the meaning of love in light of the possibility of consummating affection, care, and empathy through technology. Technology has increasingly shown the power to satisfy some of humans’ most sophisticated and nuanced emotional needs. Thus, if many components of human desires that used to seem irreplaceable, almost...

This chapter discusses the influence of technology on the tendencies of prehistoric societies and their attitude toward relationships in comparison to later cultures. How did technology affect hunter-gatherer forms of relationships? While most of today’s Western societies focus on the individual, the group stood at the center of hunter-gatherer soc...

This chapter studies the physical revolution, exploring the impact of giving a physical body to human-tech interactions and demonstrating the advances in the field of social robotics. It shows how robots are soon expected to be emotional companions to anyone willing to use them, just like mobile phones. Particularly as technology improves and socia...

Using the European Social Survey and the UN databases, this paper investigates the differences in feelings of loneliness among different marital status groups in old age. Findings presented in this paper suggest that married elders are the least lonely group, while never-married elders come thereafter, better than widowed, divorced, and separated e...

The media, and even scientific journals, are filled with claims that marriage is good for health and well-being. A closer look at the research, though, with an eye on the methodological biases, shows that such claims often misrepresent or exaggerate the results of the research. In the current article, research on suicide, depression, loneliness, ph...

בעשורים האחרונים הולכת ומתרחבת, בישראל ובעולם, מציאות של אנשים ללא זוגיות: רווקים, גרושים או אלמנים, מבחירה או מכורח, באופן זמני או קבוע. חברות רבות ממשיכות להפלות ולהדיר אותם, בדרכים ישירות ועקיפות, ולשדר להם מסר שמשהו אצלם לא בסדר. ואף על פי כן, יש רבים שטוב להם לבדם ויש להם מה ללמד את כולנו. על בסיס ראיונות אישיים, ניתוחי עומק סטטיסטיים וסקירה...

IntroductionPrevious studies depicted a recent drastic reduction in sexual activity in tandem with the rise of the second demographic transition (SDT). However, very little attention has been paid to the questions of whether and how these processes are connected and how they play out in measuring sexual satisfaction among the diverse population of...

This research estimates the extent to which life satisfaction of singles is influenced by their desire to be single. Regression analyses on data from the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) studies are used to investigate this question, paying particular attention to longitudinal differences between never-married...

Happy Singlehood charts a way forward for singles to live life on their terms, and shows how everyone--single or coupled--can benefit from accepting solo living. Based on personal interviews, quantitative analysis, and extensive review of singles' writings and literature, author Elyakim Kislev uncovers groundbreaking insights on how unmarried peopl...

ABSTRACT This paper investigates how different perceptions of STEM are related to the anticipated levels of discrimination in STEM-related fields for minority high-school students in Israel. Regression analyses of questionnaire data (N = 380) from Arab-Palestinian (minority) and Jewish (majority) high-school students are conducted. The results sugg...

This study examines the effect of relationship desire on singles’ social lives and vice versa. Based on the German-based Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics study, never-married singles and divorced singles were analyzed. Cross-sectional results showed a correlation between the extent to which singles desire relationship an...

Science education projects are being used to improve attitudes between conflicting groups, but it is not clear which aspects of science make it an effective agent for this purpose. This paper investigates how attitudes towards intergroup cooperation relate to different perceptions of science. Regression analyses are conducted on questionnaire data...

2018년 통계청 인구총조사에 의하면 한국의 1인 가구 수는 584만이라고 한다. 2000년에는 222만 가구였다. 17년 만에 2배 이상 늘어난 셈이다. 2018년 기준 1인 가구는 29.3%로 매우 큰 비중을 차지했다. 이제는 바야흐로 독신 전성기다. 미디어에서는 혼자 사는 사람들이 주연인 드라마나 예능이 큰 인기를 끌고 있다. 이제 독신은 우리 사회의 자연스러운 가구 형태 중 하나가 되었다.. 히브리 대학교에서 독신과 사회 정책을 연구하는 엘리야킴 키슬레브 교수는 《혼자 살아도 괜찮아》에서 모든 사회 구성원이 혼자 사는 삶의 방식을 인정할 때 얻을 수 있는 장점을 설명한다. 그리고 급증하고 있는 독신주의자들이 어...

現在是「一個人也可以快樂過活」的時代！ 學會如何照顧自己、探索人生，活得更自在！ 半數人口皆單身的時代即將來臨 未來美國的新生兒每4個就有1個會終身單身；歐洲大都市的單人家戶比例已經超過半數； 瑞典、挪威、丹麥、德國的單人家戶占了總戶口的40％；中國的單人家戶比例在20年內翻了3倍。 在這個世界上，單身的人其實比你想像的還多！ 雖然單身人士時常受到來自社會、家庭的壓力與歧視，認為他們「很寂寞」或是「有問題」； 但最新研究顯示，已經有越來越多的人開始「選擇單身」，單身人士甚至是全世界成長速度最快速的族群！ 作者發現，單身人士其實比已婚人士更快樂、更不自私，也更容易在生活中獲得幸福感和滿足感。 了解全球的單身人士是如何透過非傳統方式獲得親密關係，如何在工作中獲得意義，以及如何在...

This study highlights the recent changes in the composition of the Western European immigrant population to the United States. This research examines the growing diversity of this migratory stream, investigating seven groups of immigrants from Western Europe to the US. Findings show that individuals who were born in Western Europe but whose familie...

This paper provides an examination of seven groups of first- and second-generation immigrants in Western Europe. The aim of this study is to track the trajectories of these immigrants’ economic and social assimilation and to compare them. Data from the European Social Survey (ESS)and the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX)are integrated here i...

There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one's home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to the distinct mechanisms pertain to immigrants who were minorities in the source country and moved to another. This paper integrates the literat...

While most previous research on immigrants’ assimilation refers to the residual disadvantage that remains in empirical analyses of economic outcomes as a general ‘ethnic penalty’, this current paper disentangles the ‘ethnic penalty’ by dividing it into four components: individual characteristics, country characteristics, the social environment in h...

This study explores the recent changes in Western European immigration to the US by integrating several large databases: the US census, American Community Surveys (ACS), the European Social Survey (ESS) as well as the HDI and Gini indexes. Findings show that individuals who were born in Western Europe but whose families have origins outside of West...

The number of immigrant students in Western Europe is growing steadily, but their social integration and educational achievements are still lagging behind. Nevertheless, there is still very little empirical evidence on which policies can effectively promote them. Thus, this article tests 2 main types of policies: targeted support and intercultural...

Immigrants from Western Europe to the United States are commonly assumed to be racially white. Almost no attention has been paid, however, to recent changes occurring within the composition of the Western European immigrant population: individuals who were born in Western Europe but whose families have origins outside of Western Europe have been mi...

This article examines the role of participant-observers in group therapy by focusing on a case study of an educational therapy group. In analyzing the findings, I not only apply classics of psychotherapy and group theory but also borrow concepts from Foucauldian theory to elucidate the delicate effect of observation. This research uses a full parti...

This paper develops an inexplicably understudied variable with far-reaching implications for immigrants' experience: whether an immigrant was a member of a minority group in his or her country of origin. I investigate three groups of Israeli-born immigrants in the United States: Israeli Palestinians, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the Jewish majority. Us...

While it is difficult to gauge the effect of multicultural policies within countries, it is even more difficult to measure them across countries. In this article, I use fundamental multicultural changes that have occurred in Israeli society in recent decades as a case study, and track their effect on how Israelis who reside in the USA identify with...

This research focuses on a group of religious students who integrated into a nonreligious school in order to understand the characteristics of their intercultural identity. I suggest a new perspective in which intercultural identity is analyzed by itself rather than analyzing acculturation strategies taken by the individual. Using an in-depth analy...

This paper aims to draw attention to the need to distinguish immigrants according to their minority/majority origins. Using US census and ACS surveys, I analyze three different communities within the Israeli Diaspora in the US: Israeli-Arabs, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the Jewish-majority. I show that these three communities hold different socioecono...

הפערים הגוברים בין העשירונים השונים בחברה מכריחים את הרחוב הישראלי לחשוב, להתעמק, ולמצוא עצה. אנשי מקצוע מתחומים שונים משרטטים את המדיניות החברתית הראויה, כל אחד בהתאם להשקפת עולמו. על פי רוב מתרחשים דיונים אלה בזירות האקדמיה והתקשורת ולא בתוך בתי המדרש. לומדי התורה עסוקים בדרך כלל במעשה הצדקה והחסד, אך ממעטים לעסוק בשאלות של מדיניות חברתית וב"צדק...