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Robert N. Kraft Ph.D.

About

Robert N. Kraft, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at Otterbein University. After receiving his doctorate at the University of Minnesota, Kraft worked as a decision analyst in Washington D.C. and then taught at Grinnell College and Otterbein, conducting research on the psychology of film, autobiographical memory, oral testimony, collective violence, and the self. His first book, Memory Perceived (Praeger/Greenwood), documents patterns of deeply traumatic memory in Holocaust survivors. Kraft’s second book, Violent Accounts (NYU Press), analyzes how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. He is currently writing a book about the interplay between memory and self.

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Recent Posts
What to Know When Considering Non-Monogamy

Even with increasing societal and media interest, non-monogamy confronts and challenges relationship narratives. How can people prepare for and practice consensual non-monogamy?

Even with increasing societal and media interest, non-monogamy confronts and challenges relationship narratives. How can people prepare for and practice consensual non-monogamy?

Our Versatile Self

Six kinds of self-knowledge influence each other and combine to create different versions of the self, sometimes in surprising ways.

Six kinds of self-knowledge influence each other and combine to create different versions of the self, sometimes in surprising ways.

Why We Need to Be Wild

We live our modern lives in a starkly different environment from the one Homo sapiens adapted to for 300,000 years. How can we resolve this troublesome evolutionary mismatch?

We live our modern lives in a starkly different environment from the one Homo sapiens adapted to for 300,000 years. How can we resolve this troublesome evolutionary mismatch?

What Makes Memory Retrieval Work—and Not Work?

Why are some things remembered easily, and others only with difficulty and delay? And why do some memories intrude into consciousness when we’re not looking for them?

Why are some things remembered easily, and others only with difficulty and delay? And why do some memories intrude into consciousness when we’re not looking for them?

How Faulty Grammar Challenges Individuals and Relationships

Faulty grammar affects our attention, decreases our assessment of other people’s competence and attractiveness, and alters our physiology. How should we engage with it?

Faulty grammar affects our attention, decreases our assessment of other people’s competence and attractiveness, and alters our physiology. How should we engage with it?