Academic Profile : No longer with NTU

Assoc Prof Anne Rifkin-Graboi
Deputy Centre Director, Science of Learning in Education, Centre for Science of Learning in Education
Associate Professor, National Institute of Education - Learning Sciences & Assessment
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)
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I am interested in understanding the interplay between social and familial experience, mental health, and well-being, alongside the cognitive and biological mediators and moderators involved in these relations. I have a strong background in Attachment Theory and this guides much of my research. While much of my work takes an observational approach, I am increasingly interested in interventional studies with the aim of better elucidating causal mechanisms and directly helping those in need.
I am the PI for the following three studies (please also see external links) and am also involved in other Singaporean cohort research such as the GUSTO and S-PRESTO studies.
BE POSITIVE (Beginning Early: SingaPore's Ongoing Study starting in Infancy of Twenty-first-century-skills, Individual differences, and Variance in the Environment (CRCD AR/19))
CARE (The Importance of CARE: Covid–19, Attachment, Resilience, and Early Life (SSRTG 2/21 AR)
LOVING (Learning about Our behavior is Valuable for Increasing Nurturing relationships and healthy Growth (HHP H23P1M0007))
I am also a certified parent-child intervener, within the evidence based intervention, Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD). My methodological training includes formal reliability on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Frightening/Frightened (FR) systems, and I am additionally a trainer for the "Berkeley 6 Year (Attachment) Reunion" coding system. I have designed and conducted experiments with event related potentials, eye tracking, and parental sensitivity.
More generally, I have experience working with infants, young children, parents, and even university students, nonhuman primates, and hyenas. I am a member of ;Infancy' s Editorial Board and an Associate Editor for Attachment and Human Development, and appeared as a contributor in the first episode of
Netflix Nutopia's docuseries, "Babies."
Previous Appointments
• Head, Neurodevelopment Research Centre, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore (2011 - 2018)
• Principle Investigator, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore (2013 - 2018)
• Research Scientist, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore (2009 - 2013)
• Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School (2006 - 2009)
I am the PI for the following three studies (please also see external links) and am also involved in other Singaporean cohort research such as the GUSTO and S-PRESTO studies.
BE POSITIVE (Beginning Early: SingaPore's Ongoing Study starting in Infancy of Twenty-first-century-skills, Individual differences, and Variance in the Environment (CRCD AR/19))
CARE (The Importance of CARE: Covid–19, Attachment, Resilience, and Early Life (SSRTG 2/21 AR)
LOVING (Learning about Our behavior is Valuable for Increasing Nurturing relationships and healthy Growth (HHP H23P1M0007))
I am also a certified parent-child intervener, within the evidence based intervention, Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD). My methodological training includes formal reliability on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Frightening/Frightened (FR) systems, and I am additionally a trainer for the "Berkeley 6 Year (Attachment) Reunion" coding system. I have designed and conducted experiments with event related potentials, eye tracking, and parental sensitivity.
More generally, I have experience working with infants, young children, parents, and even university students, nonhuman primates, and hyenas. I am a member of ;Infancy' s Editorial Board and an Associate Editor for Attachment and Human Development, and appeared as a contributor in the first episode of
Netflix Nutopia's docuseries, "Babies."
Previous Appointments
• Head, Neurodevelopment Research Centre, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore (2011 - 2018)
• Principle Investigator, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore (2013 - 2018)
• Research Scientist, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore (2009 - 2013)
• Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School (2006 - 2009)
Attachment relationships and Schemas, Memory, Sensitive Parenting, Stress, Early Childhood, Executive Functioning, Fronto-limbic structures and functioning, Health and Well-Being, Maternal Mental Health, Antental Mental Health & Offspring Development
- The Importance of CARE: Covid-19, Attachment, Resilience, and Early Life
- How do Singaporean children understand 'I can choose'' Phase 2: Examining early development of free will, mindset, achievement goals, and persistence
- Exploratory study of children's values and the association between values and prosocial behaviour
- Optimising pre-schoolers' working memory and numerical processing capabilities
- Exploratory study of children's values and the association between values and prosocial behaviour
- LOVING (Learning about Our behavior is Valuable for Increasing Nurturing relationships and healthy Growth)
- Mobile Web App for Preschool Screening of Language Weakness in English and Mandarin (MAPS-LEM)
- Emotion Socialization in Singaporean Children
- Beginning Early: SingaPore's Ongoing Study starting in Infancy of Twenty-first-century-skills, Individual differences, and Variance in the Environment (BE POSITIVE study)
- The Instrument Pilot Study for Research on Early Education and Development in Singapore (REEDS-Pilot)
- PROSPER: Promoting Neuroprotective Out-of-classroom Playful Learning Interventions for Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Mathematical Competence of Pre-schoolers
Courses Taught
SR824: Caregiving, Attachment, & Socioemotional/Cognitive Development
Supervision of PhD Students
Currently accepting PhD and Master's Students (please see Graduate Student Scholarship Information (Loving))