My two areas of research interest 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.

I received my undergraduate education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, worked on my Ph.D. 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 Laboratory within the social psychology program at NYU. I have been part of the Barnard Psychology Department since Summer 2003.

Primary Interests:

Close Relationships
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
Personality, Individual Differences
Research Methods, Assessment
Self and Identity

Close Relationships
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Life Satisfaction, Well-Being

Personality, Individual Differences
Research Methods, Assessment
Self and Identity

Research Group or Laboratory:

Affect and Relationships Laboratory
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Journal Articles:

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.
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, 11, 87-105.
Lutz, W., Rafaeli, E., Howard, K. I., & Martinovich, Z. (2002). Adaptive modeling of progress in outpatient psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 12(4), 427-443.
Perunovic, W.Q.E., Heller, D., & Rafaeli, E. (in press). Within-person changes in the structure of emotion: The role of cultural identification and language. Psychological Science.
Rafaeli, E. & Revelle, W. (2006). A premature consensus: Are happiness and sadness truly opposite affects? Motivation and Emotion, 30, 1-12.
Rafaeli, E., Rogers, G.M., & Revelle, W. (in press). Affective synchrony: Individual differences in mixed emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Rafaeli-Mor, E., Gotlib, I. H., & Revelle, W. (1999). The meaning and measurement of self-complexity. Personality and Individual Differences, 27, 341-356.
Rafaeli-Mor, E., & Steinberg, J. (2002). Self-complexity and well-being: A review and research synthesis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 31-58.

Other Publications:

Courses Taught:

Psychology of Close Relationships

Eshkol Rafaeli
Department of Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
United States

Phone: (212) 854-7938
Fax: (212) 854-3601