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Lab Publications

A double-edged sword: Self-concept clarity as a prospective predictor of romantic relationship satisfaction in the face of conflict. Szachter, Y., Bar-Shachar, Y., Soffer-Dudek, N., Shahar, G., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2024. View

The Role of Affect Dynamics as Mechanisms of Change in Mental Health Interventions: Integrating Applied and Basic Science. Bar-Kalifa, E., Bringmann, L. F., & Zilcha-Mano, S. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2024. View

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Person-Specific Emotional Dynamics: a Story of a Traumatic Loss. Raz, I., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Gilead, M. Curr Psychol, 2024. View

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

Clients’ and Therapists’ Parasympathetic Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Regulation Dynamics During Psychotherapy for Depression. Goren,O., Paz, A., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schectman, E., Wolff, M., & Atzil-Slonim,D. Psychotherapy Research, 2024 View

Applying the Rapture Resolution Rating System to Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy. Sharlow - Levin, A., Shahar, B., Goldman, R., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2024. View

Synchrony Dynamics Between Therapists and Clients . Atzil-Salonim, D., Paz, A., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Conversations: Israeli Journal of Psychotherapy, 2023. View (hebrew)


Emotional Expression and Empathy in an Online Peer Support Platform. Weisberg, O., Daniels, S., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2023. View

The Effect of Therapists’ Enactment Interventions in Promoting Vulnerability Sharing in Emotion Focused Couple Therapy. Kula, O., Machluf, R., Shahar, B., Greenberg, L. S., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Psychotherapy Research, 2023. View

The Relationship Between Therapist Interventions and Couples' Emotional Injury Resolution in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy. Kula, O., Machluf, R., Shahar, B., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2023. View

Interpersonal Variables and Caregiving Partners’ Burden in Cardiac Illness: A Longitudinal Study. Katz, E., Bar-Kalifa, E. Pietromonaco, P., Wolf, H., Klempfner, R., Hod, H., & Vilchinsky, N. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2023. View

Clients’ Emotional Experience as a Dynamic Context for Client–Therapist Physiological Synchrony. Bar-Kalifa, E., Goren, O., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Wolff, M., Rafael, D., Heimann, S., Yehezkel, I., Scheniuk, A., Ruth, F., & Atzil-Slonim, D. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2023. View

A Multimodal Case Study Utilizing Physiological Synchrony as Indicator of Context in which Motion Synchrony is Associated With the Working Alliance. Shachaf, T., Bar-Kalifa, E., Kleinbub, J. R., Leibovich, L., Deres-Cohen, K., & Zilcha-Mano, S. Psychotherapy, 2022. View

State Mindful Attention Awareness as a Dyadic Protective Factor During COVID‑19: a Daily Diary Study. Perelman, Y., Don, B., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Mindfulness, 2022. View

Spatial proximity in relationships research methods: The effect of partner’s presence during survey completion on shared reality in romantic couples’ daily lives. Enestrom, M. C., Bar-Kalifa, E., Bar-Shachar, Y., & Lydon, J. E. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2022. View

Relationship satisfaction during COVID-19: The role of partners’ perceived support and attachment. Bar-Shachar, Y., Lopata, S., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Family Relations, 2022. View

His, her, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in the transition to parenthood. Zhavi, T., Lazarus, G., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., Refoua, E., Gleason M.E.G., & Rafaeli E. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2022. View

Daily stress and relationship quality: a two-decade scoping review from an intersectional lens. Totenhagen, C., Randall, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Cifici, O., & Gleason, M. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2022View

Oxytocin reactivity to the therapeutic encounter as a biomarker of change in the treatment of depression. Atzil-Slonim, D., Stolowicz-Melman D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Wolff, M., Rotter, I., Zagoory, O., & Feldman R. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2022. View

Objective and subjective sleep and caregiving feelings in mothers of infants: A longitudinal daily diary study. Ran Peled, D., Bar-Shachar, Y., Horwitz, A., Finkelstein, O., Bar-Kalifa, E., Meiri, G., & Tikotzky, L. Sleep, 2022View 

 

Attachment-based family therapy for sexual and gender minority young adults and their nonaccepting parents. Diamond, G. M., Boruchovitz-Zamir, R., Nir-Gotlieb, O., Gat, I., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fitoussi, P., & Katz, S. Family process, 2022View 

Capitalization, motivational effectiveness, and regulatory mode: a daily diary study of romantic partners. Rehani, B. & Bar-Kalifa, E. Cognition and Emotion, 2022View

The Role of Individual and Dyadic Planning in Couples’ Daily Goal Pursuits. Katzenelenbogen, O., Knoll, N., Stadler, G., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2022View

Emotional linkage as a moderator of emotional reactivity effect on partners' depressive symptoms. Lopata, S., Randall, A. K., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2021View

Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes. Chen, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., Sade, E., & Ziv-Beiman, S. Psychotherapy Research, 2021View

A longitudinal study of the links between maternal and infant nocturnal wakefulness. Tikotzky, L., Bar-Shachar, Y., Volkovich, E., Meiri, G., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of the National Sleep Foundation, 2021View

The relationship between therapist interventions and couples' emotional injury resolution in emotion focused couples therapy. Kula, O., Machluf, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Shahar, B. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2021View

Daily dyadic coping during COVID-19 among Israeli couples. Bar-Kalifa, E., Randall, A. K., & Perelman, Y. Emotion, 2021View

Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries. Randall, A. K., Leon, G., Basili, E., Martos, T., Boiger, M., Baldi, M., ... & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2021View

Responsiveness processes and daily experiences of shared reality among romantic couples. Bar-Shachar, Y. & Bar-Kalifa, E. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2021View

Interpersonal Counseling for College Students: Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Study. Rafaeli, A. K., Bar-Kalifa, E., Verdeli, H. & Miller, L. The American Journal of Psychotherapy, 2021View

Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety. Prinz, J., Rafaeli, E., Reuter, J. K., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Lutz, W. Psychotherapy Research, 2021View

Couples Therapists’ Attitudes Toward Online Therapy During the COVID-19 Crisis. Machluf, R., Abba Daleski, M., Shahar, B., Kula, O., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Family Process, 2021View

Intrapersonal and interpersonal vocal affect dynamics during psychotherapy. Paz, A., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schectman, E., Gannot, S., Laufer-Goldshtein, B., Narayanan, S., Keshet, J., & Atzil-Slonim, D. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2021View

Using topic models to identify clients’ functioning levels and alliance ruptures in psychotherapy. Atzil-Slonim, D., Juravski, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Tuval-Mashiach, R., Shapira, N., & Goldberg, Y.  Psychotherapy, 2021View

Narrative reconstruction therapy for prolonged grief disorder – a pilot study. Elinger, G., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Bar-kalifa, E., Boelen P. A., & Tuvia, P. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021View

Within and Between Associations of Nonverbal Synchrony in Relation to Grawe’s General Mechanisms of Change. Prinz, J., Boyle, K., Ramseyer, F., Kabus, W., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Lutz, W. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 2021View

Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a dyadic protective factor in the transition to parenthood. Bar‐Kalifa, E., Abba‐Daleski, M., Pshedetzky‐Shochat, R., Gleason, M. E., & Rafaeli, E.  Psychophysiology, 2021View

Physiological and social synchrony as markers of PTSD and resilience following chronic early trauma. Motsan, S., Bar-Kalifa, E., Yirmiya, K., Feldman, R.  Depresion & Anxiety, 2021View

Elements that Enhance Therapeutic Alliance and Short-term Outcomes in Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy: A Session by Session Assessment. Lavi-Rotenberg, A., Bar-Kalifa, E., de Jong, S., Igra, L., Lyaker, P. H., Hasson-Ohayon, I.  Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2020View

Accuracy and Bias in Vulnerability Perceptions of Partners Undergoing Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples. Wiesel I., Shahar B., Goldman, R., & Bar-Kalifa, E. Family Process, 2020View

Fast and Slow Empathic Perceptions in Couples’ Daily Lives Use Different Cues. Sened, H., & Bar-Kalifa, E., Pshedetzky-Shochat, Gleason M., & Rafaeli E. Affective Science, 2020View

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

Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Emotional Networks and their Associations with Treatment Outcome. Bar-Kalifa, E., & Atzil-Slonim, D. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2020View

Machine Learning Uncovers the Most Robust Predictors of Relationship Quality Across 43 Longitudinal Couples Studies. Joel, S., ... Bar-Kalifa, E. PNAS, 2020View

Physiological Considerations in Systemic Family Therapy: The Role of Internal Systems in Relational Contexts. Bradford, A. B. & Bar-Kalifa, E. The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, 2020View

Patterns of Early Change in Interpersonal Problems and their Relationship to Nonverbal Synchrony and Multidimensional outcome. Lutz W., … Bar-Kalifa., E., & Rubel J. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2020View

Narrative Reconstruction as An Intervention for PTSD: A Pilot Delayed Intervention Quasi-randomized Controlled Trial. Gofman, M., Kivity Y., Bar-Kalifa E., Hasson Ohayon, I., Tuval-Mashiach, R., Peri, T. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2020View

Emotional Processing in Attachment-based Family Therapy for Suicidal Adolescents. Lifshitz, C., Tsvieli, N., Bar-Kalifa, E., Abbott, C., Diamond, G. S., Roger Kobak, R., & Diamond, G. M. Psychotherapy Research, 2020. View

Tracing Metacognition in Psychotherapy: Associations with Symptoms of General Distress and Depression. Arnon-Ribenfeld, N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Silber, Y., Fisher, H., Peri, T., Lysaker, P. H. & Hasson-Ohayon, I. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2019View

Physiological Synchrony and Therapeutic Alliance in an Imagery-Based Treatment. Bar-Kalifa, E., Prinz, Jessica, N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Rubel J. A., Lutz, W., & Rafaeli, E. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2019. View

Using Network Analysis for Examining Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics. Bar-Kalifa, E., & Sened, H. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2020. View

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

Investigating the Mutual Changing of Patient's and Therapist's Self-States: An Integrative Clinical Research Study of a Single Case. HaCohen, N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Shapira, K., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Tuval-Mashiach, R. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 2019View

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

Imagery-Based Treatment for Test-Anxiety: A Multiple-Baseline Open Trial. Prinz, J. N., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., Sened, H., & Lutz, W. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2019View

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

Mom-and-Pop Narcissism: Father's Attention Seeking and Mother's Grandiosity Impact Couples' Experience of the Transition to Parenthood. Sened, H., Bar-Kalifa, E., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Gleason, M., Rafaeli, E. Journal of Personality Disorders, 2019View

 

Existentially Oriented Group Intervention for Patients With Heart Failure: Intervention Development and Preliminary Assessment. Vilchinsky, N., Horowitz, Y., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Berlin, T., & Mosseri, M. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2019View

 

Exploring the Process of Change in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety. Haberman, A., Shahar B., Bar-Kalifa, E., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Diamond, G, M. Psychotherapy Research, 2019View

Self-Compassion among Psychotherapy Clients is in the Details of Negative, Not Positive, Emotions. Galili-Weinstock, L., Lazarus, G., Bar-Kalifa, E., Atzil-Slonim, D., Peri, T., & Rafaeli, E. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2019View

Therapists' Interventions as a Predictor of Clients' Emotional Experience, Self-Understanding, and Treatment Outcomes. Fisher, H, Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Barber, J. P, Solomonov, N., Peri, T., & Atzil-Slonim, D. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2019View

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

 

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

 

The Association between Self-Compassion and Treatment Outcomes: Session-level and Treatment-level effects. Galili-Weinstock L., Chen R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Peri, T., & Rafaeli, E. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2018View

 

Accurate Where It Counts: Empathic Accuracy on Conflict and No-conflict Days. Lazarus, G., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. Emotion, 2018View

Mother-Infant Sleep Patterns and Parental Functioning of Room-Sharing and Solitary Sleeping Families: a Longitudinal Study from 3 to 18 Months. Volkovich, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Meiri, G., & Tikotzky, L. Sleep, 2018View

 

Congruence of Therapeutic Bond Perceptions and Its Relation to Treatment Outcome: Within- and Between-Dyad Effects. Rubel, J., Bar-Kalifa, E., Atzil-Slonim, Schmidt, S., & Lutz, W. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2018View

Moderators of Congruent Alliance between Therapists and Clients: A Realistic Accuracy Model. Chen, R., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Lutz, W., & Atzil-Slonim, D. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2018View

Partners’ Support During the Good Times: Associations with Fears of Positive and Negative Evaluation. Zahavi, T., Bar-Kalifa, E., Sened, H., & Rafaeli, E. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2018View

 

Social Anxiety, Depression and Close Relationship: Intra and Inter-Personal Perceptions of Social-Rank and Affiliation. Zabag, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., Mor, N., & Gilboa-Schechtman, E. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2018View

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

Intraindividual Variability in Symptoms Consistently Predicts Sudden Gains: An Examination of Three Independent Datasets. Shalom, J. G., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., van Oppen, P., ...Aderka, I. M. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2018View

Growth Curves of Clients' Emotional Experience and their Association with Emotion Regulation and Symptoms. Fisher, H., Atzil-Slonim, Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. Psychotherapy Research, 2017View

Emotion-Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder in Adults: Results from a Multiple-Baseline Design. Shahar, B., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Alon, E. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2017View

Multiplicity and Mutuality in the Transition of Patient and Therapist's Self-States: comparison of good vs. poor outcome groups. HaCohen, N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Tuval-Mashiach, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H. Psychotherapy research, 2017View

 

Affective Instability as a Clinical Feature of Avoidant Personality Disorder. Snir, A., Bar-Kalifa, E., Berenson, K., Downey, G., & Rafaeli, E.  Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 2017View

 

Agreement between Clients with Schizophrenia and Mental Health Workers on Clients' Social Quality of Life: The role of Social Cognition and Symptoms. Ofir-Eyal, S., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Bar-Kalifa, E., Kravetz, S., & Lysaker, P. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 2017. View

 

Stability or Instability in Avoidant Personality Disorder: Mode Fluctuations within Schema Therapy Sessions. Peled, O., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2017View

 

Empathic Accuracy and Relationship Satisfaction: A Meta-Analytic Review. Sened, H., Lavidor, M., Lazarus, G., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Ickes, W. Journal of Family Psychology, 2017View

 

Now You Have My Attention: Empathic Accuracy Pathways in Couples during Conflict. Sened, H., Yovel, I., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gadassi, R. & Rafaeli, E. Emotion, 2016View

 

Truth and bias in Daily Judgement of Support Receipt between Romantic Partners. Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Sened, H. Personal Relationships, 2016View

 

Emotional Experience and Alliance Contribute to Therapeutic Change in Psychodynamic Therapy Psychotherapy. Fisher, H., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. Psychotherapy, 2016View

 

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

 

Relational Entitlement Moderates the Associations between Support Matching and Perceived Partner Responsiveness. Bar-Kalifa, E., Bar-Kalifa, L., Rafaeli, E., George-Levi, S., & Vilchinsky, N. Journal of Research in Personality, 2016View

Imagery Rescripting for Test Anxiety: Review and First Experience. Prinz, J.N., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Lutz, W. Psychotherapie - Psychosomatik - Medizinische Psychologie, 2016View

 

Daily Affect Dynamics predict Early Response in CBT: Feasibility and predictive validity of EMA for outpatient psychotherapy. Husen, K., Rafaeli, E., Rubel, J. A., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Lutz, W. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2016View

 

Above and Below Baselines: The Nonmonotonic Effects of Dyadic Emotional Support in Daily Life. Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2015View

Attachment Insecurity as a Moderator of the Physiological Effects of Dyadic Support. Kordahji, H., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. Journal of Research in Personality, 2015View

 

Therapeutic Bond Judgments: Congruence and Incongruence. Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., Lutz, W., Rubel, J, Schiefele, A. K., & Peri, T. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2015View

 

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

 

Shame During Social Interactions Predicts Subsequent Generalized Anxiety Symptoms: A Daily-Diary Study. Shahar, B., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Hen-Weissberg, A. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2015View

 

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

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