Robert Nathaniel Kraft

Robert N. Kraft, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Otterbein University, where he taught courses in cognition, personality, memory, film, research methods, and the self. After receiving his doctorate, Kraft worked as a decision analyst in Washington D.C. and then taught at Grinnell College and Otterbein, conducting research on film, memory, emotion, violence, and the self. His 2002 book, Memory Perceived, documents patterns of deeply traumatic memory in Holocaust survivors. In 2017, an updated paperback of this book was published. Kraft’s 2014 book, Violent Accounts, analyzes how violent perpetrators remember and justify their destructive actions of the past. He is currently writing a book on Memory and the Self and a blog for Psychology Today called “Defining Memories."