Director, Laboratory for Dynamic Processes of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
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ABOUT MY WORK
My Affect and Relationships Lab was founded in 2003 at Barnard College, Columbia University. It’s initial objectives were to advance the understanding of two key components of daily life – our affect (that is, our moods and emotions) and our relationships (and particularly the intimate bonds connecting committed couples). These objectives have evovled over the years into studying both typical and disordered individual and dyadic processes, often in daily life but also within the therapeutic context. In 2009, the lab moved to BIU’s psychology department and Gonda Neuroscience Center, and in recent years, has been shifting its focus to studying psychotherapeutic processes and mechanisms, most notably ones emerging from a schema therapy perspective but also conducive for use in brief (stepped- or stratified-care) interventions.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(*denotes student co-author)
Bolger, N., *Davis, A., & Rafaeli, E. (2003). Diary methods: Capturing life as it is lived. Annual review of psychology 54 (1), 579-616.
*Lazarus, G., & Rafaeli, E. (2023). Modes: Cohesive personality states and their interrelationships as organizing concepts in psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132(3), 238.
Rafaeli, E., & Rafaeli, A. (2024). Needs, modes, and stances: Three cardinal questions for psychotherapy practice and training. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 6, e.12753
*Refoua, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2023). Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 54, 101691.
*Sened, H., *Bar-Kalifa, E., *Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Gleason, M., & Rafaeli, E. (2020). Fast and Slow Empathic Perceptions in Couples’ Daily Lives Use Different Cues. Affective Science, 1, 87-96.
*Sened, H., *Lazarus, G., Gleason, M.E.J., Rafaeli, E., & Fleeson, W. (2018). The Use of Intensive Longitudinal Methods in Explanatory Personality Research. European Journal of Personality, 32, 269-285.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Personalizing prediction and intervention: Idiographic modeling of functional impairment and subjective distress (BSF # 2020289, Co-PI with Dr. Aaron Fisher, UC-Berkeley).
- Multiplicity: A multi-study exploration of the self-state concept in typical and in anxiety-disordered individuals. (ISF #1501/19, PI).
- Dyadic hope in the transition to parenthood. (Templeton Foundation, PI).
- “One will lift up the other” – Couples’ coping with unemployment and job seeking (National Institute of Insurance, PI).
- His, hers, or theirs: Hope as a shared dyadic resource in the transition to parenthood. (Hope and Optimism Project, Templeton Foundation, PI).
- Social anxiety disorder and impaired responsiveness mechanisms: A dyadic multi-method study. (ISF # 1422/14, PI).
- Skillful dyadic support processes during the transition to parenthood. (BSF # 2013324, Co-PI with Dr. Marci Gleason, UT-Austin).
- A multi-method study of the role of empathic accuracies in predicting skilled support. (ISF # 615/10, PI).
- Rejection Sensitivity and Self-Regulation in Personality Disorders. (NIMH; Co-PI with Geraldine Downey and Kathy Berenson, Columbia University)