פרופ' אשכול רפאלי

פרופ' מן המניין
פרופ' מן המניין
טלפון
דוא"ל
eshkol.rafaeli@biu.ac.il
משרד
חקר המוח (גונדה) חדר 204
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    קישור לאתר המעבדה לרגש ויחסים בין-אישיים

     

    Director of Clinical Training, Combined Clinical Program

    Psychology Department and Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center

    Bar-Ilan University

     Ramat Gan, 52900 Israel
     

     

    PREVIOUS EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT

    BA - Hebrew Univ. 1992-95

    MS - Northwestern Univ. 1995-97

    PhD - Northwestern Univ. 1997-01

    Intern/Fellow - McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School - 2000-01

    Posdoc - Social psychology, NYU - 2001-03

    Assistant Prof. - Barnard College, Columbia University 2003-09

    Visiting researcher - BIU - 2006-07

    Associate Prof. - BIU - 2009-2015

     

     

    פרסומים

    For downloadable versions, please visit my lab website or ResearchGate.

    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.

    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. 

    Peled, O., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2017). Stability or instability in avoidant personality disorder: mode fluctuations within schema therapy sessions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 57, 126-134.

    Rafaeli, E., Gadassi, R., Howland, M., Boussi, A., & Lazarus, G. (2017). Seeing bad does good: Relational benefits of accuracy regarding partners’ negative moods. Motivation &  Emotion, 41, 353-369.

    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. (2017). Empathic Accuracy and Relationship Satisfaction: A Meta-analytic Review. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 742–752.

    Rafaeli E. (2017) Schema Therapy. In: Zeigler-Hill V., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_943-1

    Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H., Peri, T., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2018). Emotional Congruence between Clients and Therapists and Its Effect on Treatment Outcome. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65, 51-64. 

    Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Rafaeli, E. (2018). Therapists' Recognition of Alliance Ruptures as a Moderator of Change in Alliance and Symptoms. Psychotherapy Research, 28, 560-570. 

    Snir, A., Apter, A., Barzilay, S., Feldman, D., Rafaeli, E., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hadlaczky, G., Hoven, C.W., Sarchiapone, M., & Wasserman, D., (2018). 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, 39, 255–266.

    Lazarus, G., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2018). Accurate where it counts:
    Empathic accuracy on conflict and no-conflict days. Emotion. 18, 212-228.

    Bar-Kalifa, E., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Rafaeli, E., & Gleason, M.E.J. (2018). Daily Support Equity in Romantic Couples: Response Surface Analyses of Monadic and Dyadic Data. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 9, 790-801.

    Berenson, K.R., Dochat, C., Martin, C.G., Yang, X., Rafaeli, E., & Downey, G. (2018). Identification of mental states and interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders –Theory, Research, and Treatment, 2, 172-181.

    Galili-Weinstock, L., Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Peri, T., & Rafaeli, E. (2018). The association between self‐compassion and treatment outcomes: Session‐level and treatment‐level effects. Journal of Clinical Psych, 74, 849-866.

    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.

    Zahavi, T., Bar-Kalifa, E., Sened, H., & Rafaeli, E. (2018). Partners' Support During Good Times: Associations with Fears of Positive and Negative Evaluation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 37, 559-581.

    Shaharabani Saidon, H., Shafran, N. & Rafaeli, E. (2018). Teach Them How to Say Goodbye: The CMRA Model for Treatment Endings. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 28, 385-400.

    Translated [German]: Shaharabani Saidon, H., Shafran, N., & Rafaeli, E. (2021). Wie Abschied nehmen? Das CMRA-Modell für Therapieabschlüsse. Familiendynamik, 46 (2), 0000–0000. DOI 10.21706/fd-46-2-0000

    Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2018). Moderators of congruent alliance between therapists and clients: A Realistic Accuracy Model. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65, 703-714.

    Fisher, H., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. (2019). Growth curves of clients’ emotional experience and their association with emotion regulation and symptoms. Psychotherapy Research, 29, 463-478.

    Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H., Lazarus, G., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2019). Therapists' Empathic Accuracy toward their Clients' Emotions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87, 33-45.

    Lazarus, G., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Rafaeli, E. (2019). Clients' Emotional Instability and Therapists' Inferential Flexibility Predict Therapists’ Session-by-session Empathic Accuracy. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 66, 56-69.

    Nylocks, M. K., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Flynn, J. J., & Coifman, K. G (2019). Testing the Influence of Negative and Positive Emotion on Future Health-promoting Behaviors in a Community Sample. Motivation and Emotion, 43, 285-298.

    Prinz, J.N., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., Sened, H., Lutz, W. (2019). Imagery-based treatment for test anxiety: a multiple baseline open trial. Journal of Affective Disorders, 244, 187-195.

    Bar-Kalifa, E., Prinz, J.N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Rubel, J.A., Lutz, W., & Rafaeli E. (2019). Physiological synchrony and therapeutic alliance in an imagery-based treatment. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66, 508-517.

    Galili-Weinstock, L., Lazarus, G., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E. & Peri., T., (2020) Self-compassion among psychotherapy clients is in the details of negative, not positive, emotions. Journal of Positive Psychology, 30, 815-828.

    Rafaeli, E. (2020). All of us (and all our self-parts) need grace: Schema therapy in times of global crisis. Sihot, Special Corona Issue, April 2020, pp. 34-35. (In Hebrew).

    Lutz, W., Prinz, J. N., Schwartz, B., Paulick, J., Schoenherr, D., Deisenhofer, A.-K., Terhürne, P., Boyle, K., Altmann, U., Strauß, B., Rafaeli, E., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rubel, J. (2020). Patterns of early change in interpersonal problems and their relationship to nonverbal synchrony and multidimensional outcome. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(4), 449–461.

    Galili-Weinstock, L., Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Peri, T, & Rafaeli, E. (2020). Enhancement of self compassion in psychotherapy: The role of therapists’ interventions. Psychotherapy Research, 30(6), 815-828.  

    Sened, H., Bar-Kalifa, E., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Gleason, M., & Rafaeli, E. (2020). Mom-and-Pop Narcissism: The Impact of Attention Seeking and Grandiosity on Couples' Experience of the Transition to Parenthood. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34, 499-518.

    Fisher, H., Rafaeli. E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Barber, J.P., Solomonov, N., Peri, T., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2020). Therapists' Interventions as a Predictor of Clients' Emotional Experience, Self-Understanding, and Treatment Outcomes. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67, 66-78.

    Levavi-Francy, N., Lazarus, G., & Rafaeli, E. (2020) Relational events are more consequential when accompanied by emotional similarity‏. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 859-874.

    Chen, R., Rafaeli, E., Ziv-Beiman, S., Bar-Kalifa, E., Solomonov, N., Barber, J.P., Peri, T., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2020). Therapeutic Technique Diversity is Linked to Quality of Working Alliance and Client Functioning Following Alliance Ruptures. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88, 844-858.

    Berenson, K.R., Van De Weert, S.M., Nicolaou, S., Campoverde, C., Rafaeli, E, & Downey, G. (2020).  Reward and Punishment Sensitivity in Borderline and Avoidant Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34, 475-490.

    Bornstein, J.X., Rafaeli, E., & Gleason, M.E.J. (2020). Understanding in transition: The influence of becoming parents on empathic accuracy. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37, 2366–2385.

    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.

    George-Levi, S., Peleg, S., Vilchinsky, N., Rafaeli, E., Khaskiaa, A., Mosseri, M., & Hod, H. (2020). Attachment insecurity hinders cardiac patients’ ability to receive partners’ care: A longitudinal dyadic study. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37, 1494-1512.

    Joel, S., Eastwick, P.W., Allison, C.J., Arriaga, X.B., Baker, Z.G., Bar-Kalifa, E., Bergeron, S., Birnbaum, G., Brock, R.L., Brumbaugh, C.C., Carmichael, C.L., Chen, S., Clarke, J., Cobb, R. J., Coolsen, M.K., Davis, J., de Jong, D.C., Debrot, A., DeHaas, E.C., Derrick, J.L., Eller, J., Estrada, M.J., Faure, R., Finkel, E.J., Fraley, R.C., Gable, S.L., Gadassi, R., Girme, Y.U., Gordon, A.M., Gosnell, C.L., Hammond, M.D., Hannon, P.A., Harasymchuk, C., Hofmann, W., Horn, A.B., Impett, E.A., Jamieson, J.P., Keltner, D., Kim, J.J., Kirchner, J.L., Kluwer, E.S., Kumashiro, M., Larson, G., Lazarus, G., Logan, J.M., Luchies, L.B., MacDonald, G., Machia, L.V., Maniaci, M.R., Maxwell, J.A., Mizrahi, M., Muise, A., Niehuis, S., Ogolsky, B. G., Oldham, C.R., Overall, N.C., Perrez, M., Peters, B.J., Pietromonaco, P.R., Powers, S.I., Prok, T., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Rafaeli, E., Ramsdell, E., Reblin, M., Reicherts, M., Reifman, A., Reis, H.T., Rhoades, G. K., Rholes, W. S., Righetti, F., Rodriguez, L.M., Rogge, R., Rosen, N.O., Saxbe, D., Sened, H., Simpson, J.A., Slotter, E.B., Stanley, S.M., Stocker, S., Surra, C., Vaughn, A.A., Vicary, A.M., Visserman, M.L., & Wolf, S. (2020). Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(32), 19061-19071.

    Maurer, O., & Rafaeli, E. (2020). Current life imagery. In G. Heath & H. Startup (Eds.). Creative Methods in Schema Therapy: Advances and Innovation in Clinical Practice. Routledge.

    Lazarus, G., Sened, H., & Rafaeli, E. (2021). Subjectifying the personality state: Theoretical underpinnings and an empirical example. European Journal of Personality, 34, 1017-1036.

    Bar-Kalifa, E., Abba Daleski, M., Pshedetzky, R., Gleason, M.E.J., & Rafaeli, E. (2021). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a dyadic protective factor in the transition to parenthood. Psychophysiology. doi/10.1111/psyp.13736

    Paz, A., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schectman, E., Gannot, S, Laufer-Goldshtein, B, Narayanan, S., Keshet, J., & Atzil-Slonim, E. (2021). Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Vocal Affect Dynamics during Psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, 87, 227-239.        

    Prinz, J., Rafaeli, E., Wasserheß, J., & Lutz, W. (2021). Clients’ Emotional Experiences Tied to Therapist-Led (but Not Client-Led) Physiological Synchrony during Imagery Rescripting. Entropy, 23, 1556. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23121556

    Lazarus, G., Phsedetzky-Shochat, R., Zahavi-Lupo, T., Gleason, M.E.J., & Rafaeli, E. (2022). Emotion Differentiation During the Transition to Parenthood – Concurrent and Prospective Positive Effects. In press, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39, 592-614.

    Prinz, J.N., Rafaeli, E., Reuter, J., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Lutz, W. (2022). Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety. Psychotherapy Research, 32, 238-248.. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2021.1918353

    Zahavi-Lupo, T., Lazarus, G., Pshedetzky-Shohat, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., Refoua, E., Gleason, M.E.J., & Rafaeli, E. (2023). His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in the transition to parenthood. Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 557-572.

    Lazarus, G., & Rafaeli, E. (2023). Modes: Cohesive Personality States and their Inter-relationships as Organizing Concepts in Psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal), 132, 238-248. https://psyarxiv.com/9yqr6

    Altman, U., Uhl, J., Lutz, W., & Rafaeli, E. (2023). Messinvarianz und Validität der Kurzform des Bielefelder Fragebogens zu Partnerschaftserwartungen (BFPE12) / Measurement invariance and validity of the Short Form of the Bielefeld Partnership Expectations Questionnaire (BPEQ12). Psychotherapie - Psychosomatik - Medizinische Psychologie. 73, 25-33.

    Uhl, J., Reuter, J., Rafaeli, E., & Lutz, W. (2023). Interpersonelle Prozesse während des Imagery Rescripting. Die Psychotherapie, 68, 28-35.

    Sella-Shalom, K., Hertz-Palmor, N., Braun, M., Rafaeli, E., Wertheim, R., Pizem, N., Shacham-Shmueli, E., & Hasson-Ohayon, I. (2023). The Association Between Communication Behavior and Psychological Distress Among Couples Coping with Cancer: Actor-Partner Effects of Disclosure and Concealment. General Hospital Psychiatry. 84, 172-178.

     Refoua, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2023). Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 54, Article 101691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101691

    Uhl, J., Eberhardt, S., Schwartz, B., Rafaeli, E., & Lutz, W. (2024). Emotion Dynamics of Clients with Test Anxiety Before and After an Imagery-Based Treatment. Journal of Behavioral Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 82, 101909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101909

    Rafaeli, E., & Rafaeli, A. (2024). Needs, modes, and stances: Three cardinal questions for psychotherapy practice and training. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 6, e.12753.  https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.12753

    Edwards, D., Rafaeli, E., & Pilkington, P. (2024). Schema modes, case conceptualization, and psychotherapy process: qualitative explorations of clinical practice. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1377069.

    Paz, A., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Gannot, S., Narayanan, S.S., & Atzil-Slonim, D., (2024). Multimodal Analysis of Temporal Affective Variability within Treatment for Depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92, 569-581.

    Rafaeli, E., & Shuv-Ami, I. (2024). Schema therapy. In Bo Bach, PhD (Ed.) ICD-11 Personality Disorders: Assessment and Treatment. Oxford University Press.  

    Bar-Moshe-Lavi, L, Hertz-Palmor, N , Sella-Shalom K, Braun, M, Pizem, N, Shacham-Shmueli, E, Rafaeli, E, Hasson-Ohayon, I (2024). Actor–Partner Effects of Personality Traits and Psychological Flexibility on Psychological Distress Among Couples Coping with Cancer. Behavioral Sciences, 14(12), 1161. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14121161

    Uhl, J., Altmann, U., Rafaeli, E., Bungart, P., & Lutz, W. (2025). Within- and between therapist variability in movement and physiological synchrony and its effects on symptom change. Psychophysiology (in press). https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14742

    Fisher, H., Sened, H., Falkenstrom, F., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Watson, J., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2025). Reliability and Validity of the Emotional Processing Self Report. 
    Psychotherapy, 62, 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000575

    Sheena-Peer, L. Rafaeli, E., Berenson, K.R., Downey, G., Kivity, Y. (2025). The Urge to Fill the Void: Emptiness, Impulsivity, and Mentalizing in the Daily Life of Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 16(5), 403–414. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000721.

    Mink, F. Uhl, J., Lutz, W., Rafaeli, E., & Hehlmann, M. (2025). Validation and Application of Wrist-Worn Wearable Physiological Measures in Psychotherapy. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 49, 902-919. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-025-10601-5

    Paz, A., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Gannot, S., Narayanan, S., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2025). Dampening versus amplification: Intrapersonal and interpersonal vocal affect dynamics during psychotherapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2025.2534973

    Babkoff, M., Betz, S., Rafaeli, E., & Anholt, G. E. (2025). Distinguishing Intentional from Unintentional Disfluencies in Psychotherapy. In Proc. DiSS 2025 (pp. 47-51).

    Uhl, J., Lutz, W., & Rafaeli, E. (2025). The Physiological Signature of Imagery Rescripting: Associations between Heart Rate and Session-Level Outcomes. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2025.104879

    Refoua, E., Rafaeli, E., & Shoval, D. H. (2025). AI’s therapeutic potential goes beyond emotional connection. Nature, 646(8085), 550. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03358-0

    Genzer, S., Rubin, M., Sened, H., Rafaeli, E., Ochsner, K., Cohen, N, & Perry, A. (2026). Directional bias in interpersonal emotion perception. Nature Communications, 17(1), Article 167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66879-2

    Sened, H., Gorst-Kaduri, K., Nathan-Gamliel, H., Rafaeli, E., Zilcha-Mano, S., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2026). Inter-Brain Plasticity as a Mechanism of Change in Psychotherapy: A Proof of Concept Focusing on Test Anxiety. Psychotherapy Research, 36, 192-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2025.2451798

    Berger, A., Wolinitz-Sklare, N., Refoua, E., Weisel, S., Rabinowitz, S. & Rafaeli, E. (in press). Temporal Associations Between Schema Modes in Daily Life: The Role of Anxiety and Depression in Mode Sequences. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 

    Holzman, Y., Rafaeli, E., Elyoseph, Z., Yirmiya, K., Elyoseph, T., Linkovski, O., & Refoua, E. (2026). Clinical Prompt Engineering: Encoding Clinical Knowledge into AI Simulations for Parent Training. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology. 

    Refoua, E., Bar, M., Falk, H., Weisel, S., Rabinowitz, S., & Rafaeli, E. (2026). Psychometric Validation of an Ultra Short-Form Test Anxiety Inventory. BJPsych Open.

    תחומי מחקר

    מנחה מ.א. ודקטורט - פנוי למונחים חדשים כרגע רק למ"א.

    • תהליכי יום יום בזוגיות
    • הפרעות אישיות
    • תהליכים אפקטיביים
    • Affective structure and affective chronometry (e.g., synchrony of positive and negative affect, parameters of circadian mood rhythms in psychiatric disorders)

    • Application of social psychological and personality research to basic psychopathology questions and to the understanding of individuals' and couples’ clinical concerns

    • Social cognition in psychopathology (particularly mood, anxiety, and personality disorders) and in personality; including self-complexity, evaluative integration, and mental models of affect

    • Use of diary methods and multi-level modeling in studying psychotherapy, mood, coping, stress, and support


     

    קרנות מחקר

     

    2017-2019Principal Investigator. National Institute of Insurance (Israeli Social Security Administration): "One will lift up the other" – Couples' coping with unemployment and job seeking (139,832 NIS).. .
    2017-2019Principal Investigator. John Templeton Foundation grant: Dyadic hope in the transition to parenthood: parenthood. ($217,360).
    2015-2017Principal Investigator. Hope and Optimism Project, Templeton Foundation grant: His, hers, or theirs: Hope as a shared dyadic resource in the transition to parenthood. ($170,000).
    2014-2019Principal Investigator. Israel Science Foundation grant: Social anxiety disorder and impaired responsiveness mechanisms: A dyadic multi-method study. (900,000 NIS). ISF # 1422/14.
    2014-2018Co-Principal Investigator Binational Science Foundation grant: Skillful dyadic support processes during the transition to parenthood. ($184,800). BSF # 2013324. (Co-PI: Dr. Marci Gleason, UT-Austin).
    2014-2015Sub-contractor. DFG – German Research Foundation grant: Bonn Study on Predictors of Marital Satisfaction. ($7050). (PI: Prof. R. Banse)
    2010-2014Principal Investigator. Israel Science Foundation grant: A multi-method study of the role of empathic accuracies in predicting skilled support. (592,000 NIS). ISF # 615/10.
    2010Principal Investigator. Israel Science Foundation new faculty equipment grant: Affect and Relationships Laboratory ($240,000, including the matching funds from Bar Ilan University). ISF # 1696/10.
    2007 – 11Co-principal Investigator. NIMH R01 (MH081948) grant: Rejection Sensitivity and Self-Regulation in Personality Disorders. (With G. Downey and K. Berenson. $1,000,000).
    2006 – 09

    Partner Investigator. Australian Research Council Grant

    (PIs: Jennifer Boldero and Richard Bell; $250,000)

    2006 – 07

    Co-Investigator. Indiana University – Faculty Research Support Program: “Digital Daily Diaries in Sexual Health Research”.

    (PI: Julia Heiman; Co-investigators: E. Janssen, S. Sanders, D. Fortenberry, A. Holtzworth-Munroe, J. & Mostafa, B. Katz; $96,846)

    2005 – 06Young Investigator Award – Competitive Renewal. Borderline Personality Disorders Research Foundation ($35,000)
    2005 – 09

    Design and Statistical Consultant. NIMH-funded R01 grant “Personality, Motivation, and Memory”

    (PI: Barbara Woike; $500,000)

    2003 – 05Young Investigator Award. Borderline Personality Disorders Research Foundation ($149,924)
    1999 Dissertation Year Grant Northwestern University ($1,500)

    תאריך עדכון אחרון : 25/10/2026