Eshkol Rafaeli

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2001

Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology
Barnard College
Columbia University

Affect and Relationships Lab

415-J Milbank Hall, 3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-6598
Office: 212. 854.7938
Fax: 212.854.3601
erafaeli@barnard.edu

 

Research:

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Projects

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Teaching:

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Interests

I am a clinical psychologist, and my two areas of research are relationships and affective experience. In the former, I am examining ways of improving the skillfulness of support offered by partners, and am studying the processes by which supportive and hindering acts exert their effect in committed couples. In the latter, I study how affect is organized, how different components of it fluctuate over time, and how these different components behave in both distressed and non-distressed groups.

 

Background

I received my undergraduate education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, worked on my PhD in clinical and personality psychology at Northwestern University in the years 1995-2000, did my clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the following year, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Couples Research Lab, within the social
psychology program at NYU. I have been part of the Barnard psychology department since Summer 2003. During the 2006-7 year, I spent a sabbatical at Bar Ilan University, in Israel.

 

Projects (see more information on these in the lab site)

Affect diaries in mood and personality disorders

Skillful Support Intervention

Affect and affective structure

Support and hindrance

 

 

Selected Papers: Affect and psychopathology

Rafaeli, E., Rogers, G.M., & Revelle, W. (2007). Affective synchrony: Individual differences in mixed emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 915-932. [PDF]

Perunovic, W.Q.E., Heller, D., & Rafaeli, E. (2007). Within-person changes in the structure of emotion: The role of cultural identification and language. Psychological Science, 18, 607-613. [PDF]

Rafaeli, E. & Revelle, W. (2006). A premature consensus: Are happiness and sadness truly opposite affects? Motivation and Emotion, 30, 1-12. [PDF]

Coifman, K.G., Bonanno, G.A., & Rafaeli, E. (2006). Affect dynamics, bereavement and resilience to loss. Journal of Happiness Studies. [PDF]

Mineka, S., Rafaeli, E. & Yovel, I. (2002). Cognitive biases in anxiety and depression. In R.J. Davidson, K.R. Scherer, & H.H. Goldsmith, (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Sciences. Oxford University Press: NY. [PDF]

Selected Papers: Methodology

Cranford, J.A., Shrout, P.E., Iida, M., Rafaeli, E., Yip, T., & Bolger, N. (2006). A procedure for evaluating sensitivity to within-person change: Can mood measures in diary studies detect change reliably? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 917-929. [PDF]

Green, A.S., Rafaeli, E., Bolger, N., Shrout, P.E., & Reis, H.T. (2006). Paper or plastic? Data equivalence in paper and electronic diaries. Psychological Methods.[Abstract][PDF]

Bolger, N., Davis, A., & Rafaeli, E. (2003) Diary methods: Capturing life as it is lived. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 579-616. [Abstract][PDF]

Lutz, W., Rafaeli, E., Howard, K.I., & Martinovich, Z. (2002) Adaptive modeling of progress in outpatient psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 12(4). [Abstract][PDF]

Selected Papers: Self-complexity

Brown, G. & Rafaeli, E. (2007). Components of self-complexity as buffers for depressed mood. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 21, 308-331.[PDF]

Rafaeli-Mor, E. & Steinberg, J. (2002). Self-complexity and well-being: A research synthesis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 31-58.  [Abstract][PDF]

Rafaeli-Mor, E., Gotlib, I.H., & Revelle, W. (1999). The meaning and measurement of self-complexity. Personality and Individual Differences, 27, 341-356. [Abstract][PDF]

 Teaching (next planned date)

Abnormal Psychology (spring 09)

Introduction to Clinical Psychology (spring 08)

Psychology of Close Relationships (fall 09)

Science and Scientists

Personality Psychology

Statistics

Evolutionary Psychology