Maor has an MA degree in Social Psychology from Tel-Aviv University, where he studied at the Symbolic Cognition and Interaction (SCI) laboratory on emotion regulation processes and the potential role of mentalizing. Nowadays he continues to work there on his PhD studying reification process. During his studies in the SCI laboratory, he specialized in Machine learning (ML) applications in psychology, and specifically natural language processing (NLP). Main projects included differentiation between perspective-taking and reappraisal as emotion regulation techniques, gouging personality from digital footprints and predicting transgressive behavior using NLP and ML, predicting goal attainment from natural language using NLP and ML, and the differentiation of Mind-dependency as a psychological construct from essentialism. At the last couple of years, he has been working at Azrieli ICAMH on several studies, implementing ML methodologies to investigate different addictions and mental health, disorders comorbidity, and developing screening tools for the general population. His currently research focuses on addictions and mental health disorders in the general population of Israel in the context of the Iron Swords War.