Prof. Eshkol Rafaeli

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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 research synthesis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 31-58.

Lutz, W., Rafaeli, E., Howard, K.I., & Martinovich, Z. (2002) Adaptive modeling of progress in outpatient psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 12, 427-443.

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.

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

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.

Bolger, N., Shrout, P.E., Green, A.S., Rafaeli, E., & Reis, H.T. (2006). Paper and plastic revisited: Let’s keep them both. Psychological Methods, 11, 123-125.

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.

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

Coifman, K.G., Bonanno, G.A., & Rafaeli, E. (2007). Affect dynamics, bereavement and resilience to loss. Journal of Happiness Studies, 8, 371-392.

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.

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

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

Rafaeli, E., Cranford, J.A., Green, A.S., Shrout, P.E. & Bolger, N. (2008). The Good and Bad of Relationships: How Social Hindrance and Social Support Affect Relationship Moods in Daily Life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1703-1718.

Rafaeli, E. & Gleason, M.E.J. (2009). Skilled support within intimate relationships. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 1, 20-37.

Rafaeli, E. (2009). Daily diary methods. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, pp. 373-376. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Rafaeli, E., & Hiller, A.. (2009). Self-complexity and well-being. In J.W. Reich, A.J. Zautra, & J. Hall (Eds.), Handbook of Adult Resilience. Guildford Press.

Rafaeli, E. (2009). Cognitive behavioral therapies for personality disorders. Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 46, 290-297.

Howland, M. & Rafaeli, E. (2010). Bringing everyday mind reading into everyday life: Measuring empathic accuracy with daily diary data. Journal of Personality, 78, 1437-1468.

Rafaeli, E. , Bernstein, D., & Young, J. (2010). Distinctive Features of Schema Therapy. London: Routledge.

Rehman, U., Janssen, E., Hahn, S., Heiman, J., Holzworth-Munroe, A., Fallis, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2011). Marital satisfaction and communication behaviors during sexual and nonsexual conflict discussions in newlywed couples: A pilot study. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 37, 94-103.

Berenson, K.R., Downey, G., Rafaeli, E., Coifman, K., & Leventhal, N. (2011). The rejection-rage contingency in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 681-690.

Gadassi, R., Mor, N., & Rafaeli, E., (2011). Depression and empathic accuracy within couples: An interpersonal model of gender differences in depression. Psychological Science, 22, 1033-1041.

Lykins, A., Janssen, E., Newhouse, S., Heiman, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2012). The effects of similarity in sexual excitation and inhibition and in the effects of mood on sexuality on sexual problems and sexual satisfaction in newlywed couples. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 9, 1360-1366.

Coifman, K.G., Berenson, K., Rafaeli, E., & Downey, G. (2012). From negative to positive and back again: Polarized affective and relational experience in Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 668-679.

Rafaeli, E. (2012). A case study: Cognitive behavioral treatment of depression incorporating schema focused therapy. Sihot, 26, 168-170. (In Hebrew).

Zaki, L.F., Coifman, K.G., Rafaeli, E., Berenson, K.R., & Downey, G. (2013). Emotion differentiation as a protective factor against nonsuicidal self-injury in borderline personality disorder. Behavior Therapy, 44, 529-540.

Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2013). Disappointment’s sting is greater than help’s balm: Quasi-signal-detection of daily support matching. Journal of Family Psychology. in press.

Zaki, L.F., Coifman, K.G., Rafaeli, E., Berenson, K.R., & Downey, G. (2013). Emotion differentiation as a protective factor against nonsuicidal self-injury in borderline personality disorder. Behavior Therapy, 44, 529-540.

Gadassi, R., Snir, A., Berenson, K., Downey, G., & Rafaeli, E. (2014).  Out of the frying pan, into the fire: Mixed affective reactions to social proximity in borderline and avoidant personality disorders in daily life. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123, 613-622.

Rafaeli, E., Maurer, O., & Thoma, N. (2014). Working with modes in schema therapy. In N. Thoma & D. McKay (Eds.), Working with Emotion in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice. NY: Guilford.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rubel, J., Schiefele, A-K., Peri, T., Lutz, W., & Rafaeli, E. (2015). Therapeutic bond judgments: Congruence and incongruence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83, 773-784. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000015.

Bar-Kalifa, E., Hen-Weissberg, A., & Rafaeli, E. (2015). Perceived Partner Responsiveness Mediates the Association between Social Anxiety and Relationship Satisfaction in Committed Couples. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 34, 587-610.

Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2015). Above and below baselines The nonmonotonic effects of dyadic emotional support in daily life. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32, 161-179. 

Gadassi, R., & Rafaeli, E. (2015). Interpersonal perception as a mediator of the depression–interpersonal difficulties link: A review. Personality and Individual Differences, 87, 1-7.

Kordahji, H., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E.  (2015). Attachment Insecurity as a Moderator of Cardiovascular Arousal Effects following Dyadic Support. Journal of Research in Personality, 57, 89-99.

Snir, A., Rafaeli, E., Gadassi R., Berenson, K., & Downey, G. (2015). Explicit and Inferred Motives for Non-suicidal Self Injurious Acts and Urges in Borderline and Avoidant Personality Disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Advanced online publication, doi: 10.1037/per0000104

Bar-Kalifa, E., Atzil-Slonim, D., Rafaeli, E., Peri, T., Rubel, J., & Lutz, W. (2016). Therapist-Client Agreement in Assessments of Clients' Functioning. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 84, 1127. 

Bar-Kalifa, E., Bar-Kalifa, L., Rafaeli, E., George-Levi, S., & Vilchinsky, N. (2016). Relational Entitlement Moderates the Associations between Support Matching and Perceived Partner Responsiveness. Journal of Research in Personality, 65, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.08.009

Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., &  Sened, H. (2016). Truth and bias in daily judgments of support receipt between romantic partners. Personal Relationships.

Berenson, K.R., Dochat, C., Martin, C.G., Yang, X., Rafaeli, E., & Downey, G. (2016). Identification of mental states and interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders –Theory, Research, and Treatment.

Berenson, K.R., Gregory, W.E., Glaser, E., Romirowsky, A., Rafaeli, E., Yang, X., & Downey, G. (2016). Impulsivity, rejection sensitivity, and reactions to stressors in borderline and avoidant personality disorders. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40, 510-521. doi: 10.1007/s10608-015-9752-y

Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Rafaeli, E. (2016). Therapists' Recognition of Alliance Ruptures as a Moderator of Change in Alliance and Symptoms. Psychotherapy Research.

Fisher, H., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. (2016). Emotional Experience and Alliance as Common Factors That Synergistically Contribute to Therapeutic Change. Psychotherapy, Vol 53(1), Mar 2016, 105-116.  doi:10.1037/pst0000041 

Gadassi, R., Eadan Bar-Nahum, L., Newhouse, S., Anderson, R., Heiman, J.R., Rafaeli, E., & Janssen, E. (2016). Perceived partner responsiveness mediates the association between sexual and marital satisfaction: A daily diary study in newlywed couples. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 109-120.  doi: 10.1007/s10508-014-0448-2

Husen, K., Rafaeli, E., Rubel, J. A. , Bar-Kalifa, E. , Lutz, W.  (2016). Daily Affect Dynamics predict Early Response in CBT: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 206, 305-314.

Prinz, J., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Lutz, W. (2016). Imagery Rescripting und psychophysiologische Zusammenhänge anhand eines ImRs-Behandlungskonzepts für Prüfungsangst: Überblick und erste Erfahrungen / Imagery Rescripting and psychophysical relations based on the ImRs-therapy concept used for test anxiety: Review and first experience. Psychotherapie - Psychosomatik - Medizinische Psychologie, 66, 481-485.

Rafaeli, E., Maurer, O., Lazarus, G., & Thoma, N.C. (2016). The self in schema therapy. In M. Kyrios, M., R. Moulding, M. Nedeljkovic, S.S. Bhar, G. Doron, G. M. Mikulincer (Eds.), The Self in Understanding and Treating Psychological Disorders. Cambridge University Press.

Snir, A., Bar-Kalifa, E., Berenson, K., Downey, G., & Rafaeli, E. (2016). Affective instability as a clinical feature of avoidant personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

Sened, H., Yovel, I., Bar-Kalifa, E.,  Gadassi, R. & Rafaeli, E. (2017). Now You Have My Attention: Empathic Accuracy Pathways in Couples and the Role of Conflict. Emotion, 17, 155-168..

Sened, H., Lavidor, M., Lazarus, G., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Ickes, W. (In press). Empathic Accuracy and Relationship Satisfaction: A Meta-analytic Review. Journal of Family Psychology.

Lazarus, G., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. (In press). Accurate where it counts:
Empathic accuracy on conflict and no-conflict days. Emotion.

George-Levi, S., Vilchinsky, N., Rafaeli, E., Liberman, G., Khaskiaa, A., Mosseri, M., & Hanoch, H. (2017). Caregiving Styles and Anxiety among Couples: The Context of Coping, versus Not Coping, with Cardiac Illness. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 30, 107-120.

Rafaeli, E. (In press). Schema Therapy. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T.K. Shackelford, Eds., Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. NY: Springer.

Rafaeli, E., Gadassi, R., Howland, M., Boussi, A., & Lazarus, G. (In press). Seeing (bad) clearly: Accuracy regarding negative moods predicts positive relationship outcomes. Motivation &  Emotion.

Peled, O., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. (In Press). Stability or instability in avoidant personality disorder: mode fluctuations within schema therapy sessions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

Snir, A., Apter, A., Barzilay, S., Feldman, D., Rafaeli, E., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hadlaczky, G., Hoven, C.W., Sarchiapone, M., & Wasserman, D., (In press). Explicit Motives, Antecedents and Consequences of Direct Self Injurious Behaviors –A Longitudinal Study in a Community Sample of Adolescents. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention.

Bar-Kalifa, E., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Rafaeli, E., & Gleason, M.E.J. (In press). Daily Support Equity in Romantic Couples: Response Surface Analyses of Monadic and Dyadic Data. Social Psychology and Personality Science.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H., Peri, T., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (In press). Emotional Congruence between Clients and Therapists and Its Effect on Treatment Outcome. Journal of Counseling Psychology.