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Eshkol Rafaeli
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Eshkol Rafaeli, assistant professor of psychology, joined the Barnard faculty in 2003. He graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and completed his Ph.D .at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Barnard, Professor Rafaeli was a psychology intern/psychiatry fellow at McLean Hospital/Harvard University Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Couples Research Lab at the NYU Social Psychology program.
Professor Rafaeli's teaching at Barnard includes such courses as "Abnormal Psychology," "Clinical Psychology," and "The Psychology of Close Relationships." His two primary research areas are interpersonal relationships and affective experience. In the former, he studies the processes by which supportive and hindering acts exert their effect in committed couples. In the latter, he studies how affect is organized, how different components of affect fluctuate over time, and how these different components behave in both distressed and nondistressed groups. Professor Rafaeli's research has been supported by the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation and by the National Institute of Mental Health.
Professor Rafaeli is a clinical psychologist licensed by the State of New York. His current clinical practice utilizes both cognitive-behavioral and schema-focused therapeutic approaches.
Professor Rafaeli is on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Personality.
Selected Publications
"Affective Synchrony: Individual Differences in Mixed Emotions" (with G. M. Rogers and W. Revelle), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 33 (2007)
"Within-Person Changes in the Structure of Emotion: The Role of Cultural Identification and Language" (with W. Perunovic and D. Heller), Psychological Science 18 (2007)
"Components of Self-Complexity as Buffers for Depressed Mood" (with G. Brown), Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 21 (2007)
"A Premature Consensus: Are Happiness and Sadness Truly Opposite Affects?" (with W. Revelle), Motivation and Emotion 30 (2006)
"Affect Dynamics, Bereavement and Resilience to Loss" (with K. G. Coifman and G. A. Bonanno), Journal of Happiness Studies (2006)
"Diary Methods: Capturing Life as it is Lived" (with N. Bolger and A. Davis), Annual Review of Psychology 54 (2003)
"Self-Complexity and Well-Being: A Research Synthesis" (with J. Steinberg), Personality and Social Psychology Review 6 (2002)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Hebrew University, Israel
M.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Personality disorders
Close dyadic relationships
Affective experience
Diary methods