How I Became Interested in Psychology
This is one of those events that can be hard to pinpoint. I had considered clinical psychology, until I realized that there was a whole world of research out there. That’s when I really became interested in psychology.
Areas of Interest
For my areas of interest: For over 10 years, my research has focused on how both independence and interdependence are played out in children's developmental experiences. This work culminated in a book, Always Separate, Always Connected: Independence and Interdependence in Cultural Contexts of Development (2006). I am now building on that work by exploring issues of freedom from a psychological perspective. In addition, I completed a book on development with Oxford University Press, titled Exploring the Dynamics of Human Development: An Integrative Approach. I am now working on conceptualizing "the whole person" in terms of individual, social, cultural, bodily, and environmental processes, and in ways that are applicable to psychology in general.
Current Research and Professional Projects
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Degrees/Schools
PhD, Clark University, Developmental Psychology
Courses Taught
Lifespan Developmental Psychology, Child Psychology, Issues in Developmental Psychology, Practicum
Select Publications
Raeff, C. (2017). Exploring the Dynamics of Human Development: An Integrative Approach. New York: Oxford University Press.
Raeff, C. (2016). Going where the action is to conceptualize the person. New Ideas in Psychology, 44, 7-13.
Raeff, C. (2014). Demystifying internalization and socialization: Linking conceptions of how development happens to organismic-developmental theory. Advances in Child Behavior and Development, 46.
Raeff, C. (2011). Distinguishing between development and change: Reviving organismic-developmental theory, Human Development.
Raeff, C. (2010). Independence and interdependence in children's developmental experiences. Child Development Perspectives, 4, 31-36.
Raeff, C. (2010). Self constructing activities. Theory and Psychology, 20, 28-51.
Raeff, C. (2006). Individuals in relation to others: Independence and interdependence in a kindergarten classroom, Ethos, 34, 521-557.
Raeff, C. (2006). Multiple and inseparable: Conceptualizing the development of independence and interdependence. Human Development, 49, 96-121.
Raeff, C. (2006). Always separate, always connected: Independence and interdependence in cultural contexts of development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Raeff, C. (2004). Within-culture complexities: Multifaceted and interrelated autonomy and connectedness characteristics in late adolescent selves. In M. F. Mascolo & J. Li (Eds.). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, No. 104, 61-78.
Raeff, C. (2003). Patterns of cultural activity: Linking parents' ideas and parent-child interactions. In C. Raeff & J. B. Benson (Eds.). Social and cognitive development in the context of individual, social, and cultural processes (pp. 35-53). London: Routledge.