Mario Mikulincer - Psychology Department @ SUNY Stony Brook

CURRICULUM VITAE 

Department of Psychology 

Bar-Ilan University 

Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel 

Tel: 972-3-5318594 

Fax: 972-3-5350267 

Email: mikulm@mail.biu.ac.il 

DATE OF BIRTH: April, 1957 

MARITAL STATUS: Married + 2 

EDUCATION 

Mario Mikulincer 

April 25, 2002 

1976-1979 Bar-Ilan University, Psychology B.A., 1979. 

1979-1982 Bar-Ilan University, Experimental Psychology M.A., 1982. 

Supervisor: Prof. R. Lubow 

1982-1985 Bar-Ilan University, Psychology Ph.D., 1985. 

Supervisor: Prof. R. Lubow 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 

1981-1986 Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology: Instructor 

1984-1986 Haifa University, Department of Psychology: Instructor 

1986-1988 Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology: Lecturer 

1988-1990 Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology:Senior Lecturer 

1990-1992 Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology: Associate Professor 

1992 Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology: Full Professor 

1996-1997 Technion, Faculty of Architecture: Adjunct Professor 

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS 

1988-1992 Director of the Experimental program, Dept. of Psychology, Bar-Ilan 

Univ. 

1993 Chairman of the 23th Israel Psychological Association Congress 

1993-1995 Director of PhD program, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University

1993-1995 Deputy-Head, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University 

1995-1999 Head, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University 

2001- Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, Bar-Ilan University 

RESEARCH POSITIONS 

1982-1991 Mental Health Department., Israel Defense Forces: Senior Researcher 

1986-1989 Sleep deprivation laboratory, Israel Ministry of Defense: Senior Researcher 

1993-1996 Casualties Department, Israel Defense Forces: Senior Researcher 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP 

Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Fellow 

EDITORIAL BOARD 

2002- Journal of Personality 

2000- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID 

2002- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: IRGP 

2002- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 

AD-HOC REVIEWER (Journals) 

Anxiety, Stress, and, Coping 

Applied Psychology 

British Journal of Social Psychology 

British Journal of Clinical Psychology 

Canadian Journal of Behavioral Sciences 

Cognition and Emotion 

Death Studies 

European Journal of Oral Sciences 

European Journal of Personality 

European Journal of Social Psychology 

Gut 

Journal of Applied Social Psychology 

Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology 

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 

Journal of Occupational Psychology 

Journal of Personality 

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: ASC 

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: IRGP 

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID 

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 

Motivation and Emotion 

Personality and Individual Differences 

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 

Psychologia (hebrew) 

Psychological Bulletin 

Psychological Science 

Society and Welfare (Hebrew) 

Social Cognition 

AD-HOC REVIEWER (Grants) 

Israeli Academy of Sciences 

Ford Foundation 

Grant Foundation 

Israeli Health Ministry 

Israeli Education Ministry 

Israeli Cancer Foundation. 

National Science Foundation 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

Attachment styles in adulthood; Terror Management theory, Personality processes in 

interpersonal relationships; Evolutionary psychology, Human learned helplessness and 

depression; Trauma and Post-traumatic processes; Coping with stress; Qualitative 

research of emotional states; Mental rumination and self-focused attention 

PUBLICATIONS 

BOOKS 

Mikulincer, M. (1994). Human learned helplessness: A coping perspective. New York: 

Plenum Press. 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 

Babkoff, H., Mikulincer, M., Caspy, T., & Sing, H. (1992). Selected problems of 

analysis and interpretation of the effects of sleep deprivation on performance

hythms. In Friedman, D., & Bruder, G. E. (Eds.), Psychophysiology and 

experimental psychopathology: A tribute to Samuel Sutton (pp. 93-110). New 

York: New York Academy of Science. 

Mikulincer, M. (1996). Mental rumination and learned helplessness: Cognitive shifts 

during helplessness training and their behavioral consequences. In Sarason, I., 

Sarason, B., & Pierce, G. (eds.), Cognitive interference: Theories, methods, and 

findings (pp. 191-210). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1996). Coping and adaptation to trauma and loss. In 

Zeidner, M., & Endler, N. (eds.), Handbook of coping (pp. 554-572). New York: 

Wiley. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1996). Emotional reactions to loss over the life span: An 

attachment perspective. In McFadden, S., & Magai, C. (ed.) Handbook of 

emotions, adult development, and aging (pp. 269-285). New York: Academic 

Press. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1998). The relationship between adult attachment styles 

and emotional and cognitive reactions to stressful events. In Simpson, J., & Rholes, 

S. (eds.,) Attachment theory and close relationships (pp. 143-165). New York: 

Guilford. 

Mikulincer, M. (2000). Personal Dependency. In E. F. Borgatta, & R. J. V. 

Montgomery. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sociology (second edition, Vol. 3, pp. 2062- 

2069). New York: MacMillan Reference. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2001). Attachment style and affect regulation – 

Implications for coping with stress and mental health. In Fletcher, G., & Clark, M. 

(eds.), Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Interpersonal Processes (pp. 537- 

557). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers 

Mikulincer, M. (in press). Folk theories of emotion. In Levinson, D., Ponzetti, J., & 

Jorgensen, P. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Emotions. New York: MacMillan 

Reference. 

Mikulincer, M. (in press). Attachment in adult psychological development. In 

Eisenberg, N. (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral 

Sciences. London, UK: Elsevier. 

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). The Psychodynamics of Social Judgments: 

An Attachment Theory Perspective. In Forgas, J. P., Williams, K. D., & von 

Hippel, W. (eds.), Responding to the social world: Implicit and explicit processes 

in social judgments and decisions. London, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

ARTICLES (in refereed journals) 

Weisenberg M., Wolf Y., Mittwoch T., Mikulincer M., & Aviram O. (1985). Subject 

versus experimenter control in the reaction to pain. Pain, 23, 187-200.

Mikulincer, M. (1986). Attributional processes in the learned helplessness paradigm: 

The behavioral effects of globality attributions. Journal of Personality and Social 

Psychology, 51, 1248-1256. 

Mikulincer, M. (1986). Motivational involvement and learned helplessness: The 

behavioral effects of the importance of uncontrollable events. Journal of Social and 

Clinical Psychology, 4, 402-422. 

Mikulincer, M., & Caspy, T. (1986). The conceptualization of helplessness: I. A 

phenomenological-structural analysis . Motivation and Emotion, 10, 263-278. 

Mikulincer, M., & Caspy, T. (1986). The conceptualization of helplessness: II. 

Laboratory correlates of the phenomenological definition of helplessness. 

Motivation and Emotion, 10, 279-294. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Hobfoll, S. E. (1986). The effects of social support and 

battle intensity on loneliness and breakdown during combat. Journal of Personality 

and Social Psychology, 51, 1269-1276. 

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Combat stress reactions, post traumatic stress 

disorder and somatic complaints among Israeli soldiers. Journal of Psychosomatic 

Research, 31, 131-137. 

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Combat stress reactions, post-traumatic stress 

disorder and social adjustment--A study of Israeli veterans. The Journal of Nervous 

and Mental Disease, 175, 277-285. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Hobfoll, S. E. (1987). Objective versus subjective 

measurement of stress and social support: The case of combat-related reactions. 

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 577-583. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Kotler, M. (1987). A two year follow-up of somatic 

complaints among Israeli combat stress reaction casualties. Journal of 

Psychosomatic Research, 31, 463-469. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Jacob, B. R. (1987). Exposure to recurrent combat 

stress: combat stress reactions among Israeli soldiers in the Lebanon war. 

Psychological Medicine, 17, 433-440. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., Freid, B., Wosner, Y. (1987). Family characteristics and 

posttraumatic stress disorder -- A follow-up of Israeli combat stress reaction 

casualties. Family Processes, 26, 383-394. 

Solomon, Z., Weisenberg, M., Schwarzwald, J., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Posttraumatic 

stress disorder among frontline soldiers with combat stress reaction: The 

1982 Israeli experience. American Journal of Psychiatry, 144, 448-454. 

Solomon, Z., Weisenberg, M., Schwarzwald, J., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Posttraumatic 

stress disorder among soldiers with combat stress reaction: The 1982 

Israeli experience. Megamot, 30, 219-229 

Schwarzwald, J., Solomon, Z., Weisenberg, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Validation of 

the impact of event scale for psychological sequelae of combat. Journal of 

Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 251-256.

Weisenberg, M., Solomon, Z., Schwarzwald, J., & Mikulincer, M. (1987). Assessing 

severity of post-traumatic stress disorder: The relationship between dichotomous 

and continuous measures. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 432- 

434. 

Keinan, G , Mikulincer, M., & Ribnytzki, A. (1988). Perception of self and parents by 

second generation Holocaust survivors. Behavioral Medicine, 14, 6-12. 

Mikulincer, M. (1988). Reactance and helplessness following exposure to unsolvable 

problems: The effects of attributional style. Journal of Personality and Social 


Mikulincer, M. (1988). The relationship of probability of success and performance 

following unsolvable problems: Reactance and helplessness effects. Motivation 

and Emotion, 12, 139-154. 

Mikulincer, M. (1988). The relation between stable/unstable attribution and learned 

helplessness. British Journal of Social Psychology, 27, 221-230. 

Mikulincer, M. (1988). Freedom of choice, control, and learned helplessness. Journal of 

Clinical and Social Psychology, 7,203-213 

Mikulincer, M. (1988). A case study of three theories of learned helplessness: The role 

of test importance. Motivation and Emotion, 12, 371-384. 

Mikulincer, M., & Nizan , B. (1988). Causal attribution, cognitive interference and the 

generalization of learned helplessness. Journal of Personality and Social 


Mikulincer, M., & Solomon, Z. (1988). Attributional style and combat-related posttraumatic 

stress disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 97, 308-313. 

Mikulincer, M., Solomon, Z., & Benbenishty, R. (1988). Battle events, acute combat 

stress reaction and long term psychological sequelae of war. Journal of Anxiety 

Disorders, 2, 121-133. 

Solomon, Z., Benbenishty, R., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). A follow up of Israeli 

casualties of combat stress reaction ("battle shock") in the 1982 Lebanon War. 

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 27, 125-136. 

Solomon, Z., Kotler, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Combat related post-traumatic stress 

disorder among second generation Holocaust survivors: Preliminary findings. 

American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 865-868. 

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Psychological sequelae of war: A two year 

follow-up study of Israeli combat stress reaction casualties. The Journal of Nervous 

and Mental Disease, 176, 264-269. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M, & Avitzur, E. (1988). Coping, locus of control, social 

support, and combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder -- A prospective study. 

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 279-285. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Bleich, A. (1988). Characteristic expressions of posttraumatic 

stress disorder among Israeli soldiers in the 1982 Lebanon War. Journal 

of Human Stress, 14, 171-178.

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M., Flum, H. (1988). Negative life events, coping 

responses, and combat-related psychopathology: A prospective study. Journal of 

Abnormal Psychology, 97, 302-307. 

Solomon, Z., Schwarzwald, J., Weisenberg, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Combat 

stress reaction and post-traumatic stress disorder as determinants of perceived selfefficacy 

in battle. Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, 6, 356-370. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Benbenishty, R. (1989). Combat stress reaction - 

Clinical manifestations and correlates. Military Psychology, 1, 35-47. 

Babkoff, H., Mikulincer, M., Caspi, T., & Kempinski, D. (1988). The topology of 

performance curves during 72 hours of sleep loss: A memory and search task. 

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40A, 737-756. 

Lider, O., Wolf, Y., Silfan, P., & Mikulincer, M. (1988). Perception of the father as 

aggressor or victim among offsprings of Holocaust survivors. Crime and Social 

Deviance, 17, 51-70. 

Babkoff, H., Mikulincer, M., Caspi, T., & Sing, H. (1989). The implications of sleep 

loss for circadian performance accuracy. Work and Stress, 3, 3-14. 

Mikulincer, M. (1989). Learned helplessness and egotism: Effects of internal/external 

attribution on performance following unsolvable problems. British Journal of 

Social Psychology, 28, 17-29. 

Mikulincer, M. (1989). Self serving biases in the perception of freedom: The impact of 

previously experienced failures. Journal of Psychology, 123, 25-41. 

Mikulincer, M. (1989). Cognitive interference and learned helplessness: The effects of 

off-task cognitions on performance following unsolvable problems. Journal of 

Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 129-135. 

Mikulincer, M. (1989). Coping and learned helplessness: Effects of coping strategies on 

performance following unsolvable problems. European Journal of Personality, 3, 

181-194. 

Mikulincer, M. (1989). Causal attribution, coping strategies, and learned helplessness. 

Cognitive Therapy and Research,13, 565-582. 

Mikulincer, M., Babkoff, H., Caspi, T., & Sing, H. (1989). The effects of 72 hours of 

sleep loss on psychological variables. British Journal of Psychology , 80, 145- 

162. 

Mikulincer, M., Glaubman, H., Wasserman, O., Porat, A., & Birger, M. (1989). Control 

beliefs and sleep characteristics of posttraumatic stress disorder patients. 

Psychological Reports, 65, 567-576. 

Mikulincer, M., Kedem, P., & Zilcha-Segal, H. (1989). Learned helplessness, reactance, 

and cue utilization. Journal of Research in Personality, 23, 235-247. 

Mikulincer, M., & Solomon, Z. (1989). Causal attribution, coping strategies, and 

combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Personality, 3, 

269-284.

Segal, Y., & Mikulincer, M. (1989). The experience of loneliness: A 

phenomenological-structural analysis. Psychologia, 1, 85-94. 

Solomon, Z., Avitzur, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1989). Coping resources and social 

functioning following combat stress reaction : A longitudinal study. Journal of 

Social and Clinical Psychology, 8, 87-96: 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Benbenishty, R. (1989). Locus of control and combatrelated 

post traumatic stress disorder: The intervening role of battle intensity, threat 

appraisal, and coping. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 28, 131-144. 

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M., & Flum, H. (1989). The implications of life events and 

social integration in the course of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Social Psychiatry, 24, 41-48. 

Dorshav, N., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Learned helplessness, causal attribution, and 

responses to frustration. Journal of General Psychology, 117, 47-58. 

Glaubman, H., Mikulincer, M., Wasserman, O., Porat, A., & Birger, M. (1990). Sleep of 

chronic posttraumatic patients. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 3, 255-263. 

Kedem, P., Mikulincer, M., Nathenson, Y. E., & Bartoov, B. (1990). Psychological 

aspects of male infertility. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 63, 73-80. 

Mikulincer, M. (1990). The joint influence of prior beliefs and current situational 

information on stable/unstable attribution. Journal of Social Psychology, 130, 739- 

754. 

Mikulincer, M., Babkoff, H., Caspy, T., & Weiss, H. (1990). The impact of cognitive 

interference on performance during prolonged sleep loss. Psychological Research, 

52, 80-86. 

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Tolmacz, R. (1990). Attachment styles and fear of death: 

A case of affect regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 273- 

280. 

Mikulincer, M., Gerber, H., & Weisenberg, M. (1990). Judgments of control and 

depression: The role of self-esteem threat and self-focused attention. Cognitive 

Therapy and Research, 14, 589-608. 

Mikulincer, M., Kedem, P., & Paz, D. (1990). The impact of trait anxiety and 

situational stress on the categorization of natural objects. Anxiety Research, 2, 85- 

101. 

Mikulincer, M., Kedem, P., & Paz, D. (1990). Anxiety and categorization: 1. The 

structure and boundaries of mental categories. Personality and Individual 

Differences, 11, 805-814. 

Mikulincer, M., Paz, D., & Kedem, P. (1990). Anxiety and categorization: 2. 

Hierarchical levels of mental categories. Personality and Individual Differences, 

11, 815-821. 

Mikulincer, M., & Segal, J. (1990). A multidimensional analysis of the experience of 

loneliness. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 7, 209-230.

Mittwoch, T., Weisenberg, M., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). The influence of warning 

signal timing and cognitive preparation on the aversiveness of electric shock. Pain, 

42, 373-381. 

Solomon, Z., Avitzur, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Coping styles and postwar 

psychopathology among Israeli soldiers. Personality and Individual Differences, 5, 

451-456. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M, & Habershaim, N. (1990). Life events, coping strategies, 

social resources, and somatic complaints among combat stress reaction casualties. 

British Journal of Medical Psychology, 63, 137-148. 

Solomon, Z., Waysman, M, & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Family functioning, perceived 

societal support and combat-related psychopathology: The moderating role of 

loneliness. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 9, 456-472. 

Weisenberg, M., Wolf, Y., Mittwoch, T., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Learned 

resourcefulness and perceived control of pain: A preliminary examination of 

construct validity. Journal of Research in Personality, 24, 101-110. 

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1990). Life events and combat-related posttraumatic 

stress disorder: The intervening role of locus of control and social support. Military 


Babkoff, H., Caspy, T., & Mikulincer, M. (1991). Subjective sleepiness ratings: The 

effects of sleep deprivation, circadian rhythmicity and cognitive performance. 

Sleep, 14, 534-539. 

Babkoff, H., Caspy, T., Mikulincer, M., & Sing, H. (1991). Monotonic and rhythmic 

influences: A challenge for sleep deprivation research. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 

411-428. 

Bleich, A., Grinshpoon, A., Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., Isaacs, J., & Kotler, M. 

(1991). Evaluating parachute-drop stress by measuring blood lipids. Harefuah, 

120, 313-317. 

Mikulincer, M., Bizman, A., & Aizenberg, R. (1991). An attributional analysis of 

social-comparison jealousy. Motivation and Emotion, 13, 235-258. 

Mikulincer, M., & Erev, I. (1991). Attachment style and the structure of romantic love. 

British Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 273-291. 

Mikulincer, M., Glaubman, H., Ben-Artzi, E., & Grossman, S. (1991). The cognitive 

specificity of learned helplessness and depression deficits: The role of self-focused 

cognitions. Anxiety Research, 3, 273-290. 

Mikulincer, M., & Marshand, O. (1991). An excuse perspective of the learned 

helplessness paradigm: The self-protective role of causal attribution. Journal of 

Social and Clinical Psychology, 10, 134-151. 

Mikulincer, M., & Nachshon, O. (1991). Attachment styles and patterns of selfdisclosure. 


Mikulincer, M., & Peer-Golding, I. (1991). Self-congruence and the experience of 

happiness. British Journal of Psychology, 30, 21-35.

Mikulincer, M., & Segal, J. (1991). Loneliness and the desire for intimacy: The 

intervening role of locus of control. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 

801-809. 

Mikulincer, M., Yinon, A., & Kabili, D. (1991). Epistemic needs and learned 

helplessness. European Journal of Personality, 5, 249-258. 

Solomon, Z., Benbenishti, R., & Mikulincer, M. (1991). The contribution of wartime, 

pre-war, and post-war factors to self-efficacy: A longitudinal study of combat 

stress reactions. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 4, 345-362. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Arad, R. (1991). Monitoring and blunting: Implications 

for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 4, 

209-222. 

Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Waysman, M. (1991). Delayed and immediate onset 

posttraumatic stress disorder: I. Differential clinical characteristics. Social 

Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 26, 1-7. 


posttraumatic stress disorder: II. The role of battle experiences and personal 

resources. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 26, 8-13. 


posttraumatic stress disorder: The role of life events and social support. Journal of 

Community Psychology, 19, 231-236. 

Avraham, Y., Mikulincer, M., Nardi, C., & Shoam, S. (1992). The use of individual 

goal-setting and ongoing evaluation in the treatment of combat-related chronic 

PTSD. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 5, 195-204. 

Kedem, P., Bartoov, B., Mikulincer, M., & Shkolnik, T. (1992). A possible link 

between stress, coping, and male immunological infertility. Psychology and 

Health, 6, 159-173. 

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1992). Aftermaths of combat stress reactions: A threeyear 

study. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 31, 21-32. 

Solomon, Z., & Mikulincer, M. (1992). Combat stress reaction and posttraumatic stress 

disorder: A three-year follow up. Megamot, 34, 414-427 . 

Solomon, Z., Waysman, M., Belkin, R., Levy, G., Mikulincer, M., & Enoch, D. (1992). 

Marital relations and combat stress reaction: The wives' perspective. Journal of 

Marriage and the family, 54, 316-326. 

Solomon, Z., Waysman, M., Levy, G., Fried, B., Mikulincer, M., Benbenishty, R., 

Florian, V., & Bleich, A. (1992). From front line to home front: A study of 

secondary traumatization. Family Process, 31, 289-302. 

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1993). The impact of death-risk experiences and 

religiosity on the fear of personal death: The case of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. 

Omega, 26, 101-111.

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Weller, A. (1993). Does culture affect perceived family 

dynamics? A comparison of Arab and Jewish adolescents in Israel. Journal of 

Comparative Family Studies, 24, 189-201. 

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Weller, A. (1993). Attachment styles, coping strategies, 

and post-traumatic psychological distress: The impact of the Gulf War in Israel. 


Mikulincer, M., Weller, A., & Florian, V. (1993). Sense of closeness to parents and 

family rules: A study of Arab and Jewish youth in Israel. International Journal of 


Waysman, M., Mikulincer, M., Solomon, Z., & Weisenberg, M. (1993). Secondary 

traumatization among wives of post-traumatic combat veterans: A family typology. 

Journal of Family Psychology, 7, 104-118. 

Weisenberg, M., Gerby, Y., & Mikulincer, M. (1993). Aerobic exercise and chocolate 

as a means of reducing learned helplessness. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 17, 

579-592. 

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Green, E. (1994). Fear of personal death and the MMPI 

profile of middle-age men: The moderating impact of personal losses. Omega, 28, 

151-164. 

Orbach, I., Shopen-Kofman, R., & Mikulincer, M. (1994). The impact of subliminal 

symbiotic versus identification messages in reducing anxiety. Journal of Research 

in Personality, 28, 492-504. 

Ben-Artzi, E., Mikulincer, M., & Glaubman, H. (1995). The multifaceted nature of selfconsciousness: 

Conceptualization, measurement, and consequences. Imagination, 

Cognition, and Personality, 15, 17-43. 

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Bucholtz, I. (1995). Effects of adult attachment style on 

the perception and search for social support. The Journal of Psychology, 129, 665- 

676. 

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Taubman, O. (1995). Do hardiness contribute to mental 

health duringa stressful real-life situation: The roles of appraisal and coping. 

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68. 

Mikulincer, M. (1995). Attachment style and the mental representation of the self. 


Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1995). Stress, coping, and fear of personal death: The 

case of middle-age men facing early job retirement. Death Studies, 19, 413-431. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1995). Appraisal and coping with a real-life stressful 

situation: The contribution of attachment styles. Personality and Social Psychology 

Bulletin, 21, 408-416. 

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Solomon, Z. (1995). Marital Intimacy, Family Support, 

and Secondary Traumatization: A Study of Wives of Veterans with Combat Stress 

Reaction. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 8, 203-213.

Mikulincer, M., & Orbach, I. (1995). Attachment styles and repressive defensiveness: 

The accessibility and architecture of affective memories. Journal of Personality 


Weller, A., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1995). Parental division of power in a 

multicultural society as reported by adolescents. Journal of Research in 

Adolescence, 5, 413-429. 

Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Lay theories of emotion: 1. Conceptualization 

and measurement. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 15, 249-271. 

Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Lay theories of emotion: 2. Interindividual and 

intraindividual variance in the appraisal of emotions. Imagination, Cognition, and 

Personality, 15, 273-294. 

Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Lay theories of emotion: 3. The intraindividual 

structure of emotions. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 15, 319-334. 

Horesh, N., Apter, A., Ishai, J., Danzinger, Y., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Abnormal 

psychosocial situations and eating disorders in adolescence. Journal of the 

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 921-927. 

Mikulincer, M. & Florian, V. (1996). Do we really know what we need? A commentary 

on Pyszczynski, Greenberg, and Solomon's paper. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 33-36. 

Orbach, I., & Mikulincer, M. (1996). Repressive coping style and the architecture of 

emotion-related memories: Is their relationship that simple? British Journal of 


Ben-Artzi, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1997). Lay theories of emotion: 4. Reactions to 

negative and positive emotional episodes. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 

16, 89-113. 

Birnbaum, G. E., Orr, I., Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1997). When marriage breaks 

up -- Does attachment style contribute to coping and mental health? Journal of 

Social and Personal Relationships, 14, 643-654. 

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1997). Fear of personal death in adulthood: The impact 

of early and recent losses. Death Studies, 21, 1-24. 

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1997). Fear of death and the judgment of social 

transgressions: A multidimensional test of terror management theory. Journal of 


Mikulincer, M. (1997). Adult attachment style and information processing: Individual 

differences in curisosity and cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social 


Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1997). A cognitive-relational approach to emotions -- 

The appraisal and coping components of sadness, shame, guilt, jealousy, and 

disgust. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 16, 263-279. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1997). Are emotional and instrumental supportive 

interactions beneficial in times of stress? The impact of attachment style. Anxiety, 

Stress, and Coping, 10, 109-127.

Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., King, R., Cohen, D., Stein, D., & Apter, A. (1997). 

Thresholds and tolerance of physical pain in suicidal and nonsuicidal patients. 

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 646-652. 

Banai, E., Weller, A., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Interjudge agreement in evaluation of 

adult attachment style: The impact of acquaintanceship. British Journal of Social 


Budner, E., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Learned helplessness and the occurrence of 

depressive-like and paranoid-like responses: The role of attentional focus. Journal 

of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1010-1023. 

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Symbolic immortality and the management of the 

terror of death -- The moderating role of attachment style. Journal of Personality 


Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Terror management in childhood: Does death 

conceptualization moderate the effects of mortality salience on acceptance of 

similar and different others? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1104- 

1112. 

Mikulincer, M. (1998). Adult attachment style and individual differences in functional 

versus dysfunctional experiences of anger. Journal of Personality and Social 


Mikulincer, M. (1998). Attachment working models and the sense of trust: An 

exploration of interaction goals and affect regulation. Journal of Personality and 


Mikulincer, M. (1998). Adult attachment style and affect regulation: Strategic variations 

in self-appraisals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 420-435. 

Mikulincer, M. (1998). Adult attachment style and strategies of affect regulation – 

Working hypotheses and review of empirical findings. Psychologia, 7, 33-48 (H) 

Mikulincer, M., Horesh, N., Levy-Shiff, R., Manovich, R., & Shalev, J. (1998). The 

contribution of adult attachment style to the adjustment to infertility. British 

Journal of Medical Psychology, 71, 265-280. 

Mikulincer, M, Orbach, I., & Iavnieli, D. (1998). Adult attachment style and affect 

regulation: Strategic variations in subjective self-other similarity. Journal of 


Orbach, I., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). The body investment scale: Construction and 

validation of a body experiences scale. Psychological Assessment, 10, 415-425. 

Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., Stein, D., & Cohen, O. (1998). Self-representations of 

suicidal adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 435-439. 

Solomon, Z., Ginzburg, K., Mikulincer, M., Neria, Y., & Ohry, A. (1998). Coping with 

war captivity: The role of attachment style. European Journal of Personality, 12, 

271-285.

Mikulincer, M., & Arad, D. (1999). Attachment working models and cognitive 

openness in close relationships: A test of chronic and temporary accessibility 

effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 710-725. 

Mikulincer, M. & Florian, V. (1999). The association between spouses’ self-reports of 

attachment styles and representations of family dynamics. Family Process, 38, 69- 

83. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1999). The association between parental reports of 

attachment style and family dynamics and offspring’s reports of adult attachment 

style. Family Process, 38, 243-257. 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1999). Maternal-fetal bonding, coping strategies, and 

mental health during pregnancy – The contribution of attachment style. Journal of 

Social and Clinical Psychology, 18, 255-276. 

Mikulincer, M., & Horesh, N. (1999). Adult attachment style and the perception of 

others – The role of projective mechanisms. Journal of Personality and Social 


Mikulincer, M., Horesh, N., Eilati, I., & Kotler, M. (1999). The association between 

adult attachment style and mental health in extreme life endangering conditions. 

Personality and Individual Differences, 27, 831-842. 

Orbach, I., Mikulincer, M., Blumenson, R., Mester, R., & Stein, D. (1999). The 

subjective experience of problem irresolvability and suicidal behavior: Dynamics 

and measurement. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 29, 150-164. 

Taubman Ben-Ari, O., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1999). The impact of mortality 

salience on reckless driving – A test of terror management mechanisms. Journal of 


Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2000). The anatomy of a problematic 

emotion – The conceptualization and measurement of the experience of pity. 

Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 19, 3-26. 

Mikulincer, M., Birnbaum, G., Woddis, D., & Nachmias, O. (2000). Stress and 

accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and 

intraindividual components of attachment theory. Journal of Personality and Social 


Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2000). Exploring individual differences in reactions to 

mortality salience – Does attachment style regulate terror management 

mechanisms? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 260-273. 

Mikulincer, M., & Sheffi, E. (2000). Adult attachment style and cognitive reactions to 

positive affect: A test of mental categorization and creative problem solving. 

Motivation and Emotion, 24, 149-174. 

Taubman Ben-Ari, O., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2000). Does a threat appeal 

moderate reckless driving? – A terror management theory perspective. Accident 

Analysis and Prevention, 32, 1-10.

Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2001). The association of mothers’ 

attachment style and their reactions to the diagnosis of infant’s congenital heart 

disease. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 20, 208-232. 

Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2001). Attachment style and mental health: A 

one-year follow-up study of mothers of infants with congenital heart disease. 

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 956-968. 

Birnbaum, G., Glaubman, H., & Mikulincer, M. (2001). Women’s experiences of 

heterosexual intercourse – Scale construction, factor structure, and relations to 

orgasmic disorder. Journal of Sex Research, 38, 191-204.. 

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2001). Validation of personal identity 

as a terror management mechanism – Evidence that sex-role identity moderates 

mortality salience effects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 1011- 

1022. 

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2001). An existentialist view on 

mortality salience effects: Personal hardiness, death-thought accessibility, and 

cultural worldview defenses. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 437-453. 

Mikulincer, M., Gillath, O., Halevy, V., Avihou, N, Avidan, S., & Eshkoli, N. (2001). 

Attachment theory and reactions to others’ needs: Evidence that activation of the 

sense of attachment security promotes empathic responses. Journal of Personality 


Mikulincer, M., Hirschberger, G., Nachmias, O., & Gillath, O. (2001). The Affective 

Component of the Secure Base Schema: Affective Priming with Representations of 

Attachment Security. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 305-321. 

Mikulincer, M., & Selinger, M. (2001). The interplay between attachment and 

affiliation systems in adolescents’ same-sex friendship: The role of attachment 

style. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 18, 81-106. 

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2001). Attachment theory and intergroup bias: 

Evidence that priming the secure base schema attenuates negative reactions to outgroups. 


Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2002). The anxiety buffering function 

of close relationships: Evidence that relationship commitment acts as a terror 

management mechanism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 

527-542. 

Hirschberger, G., Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., Goldenberg, J. L., & Pyszczynski, T. 

(2002). Gender differences in the willingness to engage in risky behavior: A terror 

management perspective. Death Studies, 26, 117-142. 

Hirschberger, G., Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2002). The anxiety buffering function 

of close relationships: Mortality salience effects on the readiness to compromise 

mate selection standards. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 1-17. 

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., Birnbaum, G., & Malishkevich, S. (2002). The deathanxiety 

buffering function of close relationships: Exploring the effects of

separation reminders on death-thought accessibility. Personality and Social 

Psychology Bulletin, 28, 287-299. 

Hamburger, Y., Mikulincer, M. & Zaltz, N. (in press). The effects of learned 

helplessness on the processing of a persuasive message. Current Psychology 

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (in press). The effects of mortality salience on selfserving 

attributions – Evidence for the function of self-esteem as a terror 

management mechanism. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (in press). Attachment 

security in couple relationships – A systemic model and its implications for family 

dynamics. Family Process. 

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (in press). The existential function of 

close relationships – Introducing death into the science of love. Personality and 

Social Psychology Review. 

Mikulincer, M., Gillath, O., Sapir-Lavid, Y., Yaakobi, E., Arias, K., Tal-Aloni, L., & 

Bor, G. (in press). Attachment theory and concern for others’ welfare: Evidence 

that activation of the sense of secure base promotes endorsement of selftranscendence 

values. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 

Mikulincer, M., Gillath, O., & Shaver, P. R. (n press). Activation of the attachment 

system in adulthood: Threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental 

representations of attachment figures. Journal of Personality and Social 

Psychology. 

Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Pereg, D. (in press). Attachment Theory and Affect 

Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of 

Attachment-Related Strategies. Motivation and Emotion. 

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Attachment-related psychodynamics. 

Attachment and Human Development. 

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Dialogue on Adult Attachment: Diversity 

and Integration. Attachment and Human Development. 

Taubman Ben-Ari, O., Findler, L., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). The effects of mortality 

salience on relationship strivings and beliefs – The moderating role of attachment 

style. British Journal of Social Psychology. 

PRESENTED PAPERS 

Learned helplessness among children of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented in the 

Israel Psychological Association Congress, Haifa, Israel, October, 1985. 

Sampling perceptual and cognitive performance during 72 hours of sleep deprivation. 

Paper presented in the 21st. International Congress of Applied Psychology, 

Jerusalem, Israel, July 1986. 

The effects of social support and battle intensity on loneliness and breakdown during 

combat. Paper presented in the 21st. International Congress of Applied 

Psychology, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1986.

Exposure to recurrent combat stress and combat stress reactions among soldiers in the 

Lebanon War. Paper presented in the 21st. International Congress of Applied 

Psychology, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1986. 

Sleep loss, sustained operations and circadian rhytms: The differential effects of 

memory loss. Paper presented in the 5th convention of Medicine in Israel, 

Jerusalem, Israel, July, 1986. 

The meaning of the dependent variables used to measure performance in a sleep 

deprivation paradigm. Paper presented in the American Psychological Association 

Congress, Washington DC, USA, August 1986. 

A three-dimensional classificatory model of cognitive processes. Paper presented in the 

Second World Conference on Imagery, Toronto, Canada, June 1987. 

The effects of sleep loss on visual shape discrimination. Paper presented in the 9th 

European Congress of Sleep Research, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1988. 

The effects of 72 hours of sleep loss on a psychomotor task. Paper presented in the 9th 

European Congress of Sleep Research, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1988. 

Sleep loss, circadian rhytms and task difficulty: Logical reasoning. Paper presented in 

the 9th European Congress of Sleep Research, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1988. 

Variations in diurnal fluctuations under progressive sleep deprivation. Paper presented 

in the 5th Congress of Industrial Engineering and Management, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 

July 1988. 

The effects of 72 hours of sleep loss on psychological variables. Paper presented in the 

24th International Congress of Psychology, Sydney, Australia, August, 1988. 

Coping strategies and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Paper presented at 

the 4th International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time 

of War and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989. 

Sleep deprivation as a modifier of performance circadian rhythm. Paper presented at the 

4th International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of 

War and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989. 

Assessment of the treatment contracts in the Koach project. Paper presented at the 4th 

International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War 

and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989. 

Cognitive functioning during 72 hours of sleep deprivation. Paper presented at the 4th 

International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War 

and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989. 

Causal attribution for positive and negative events and combat-related posttraumatic 

stress disorder. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on 

Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 

June 1989. 

The effects of pre-war factors, combat experiences, and combat stress reaction on 

combat-related psychopathology. Paper presented at the 4th International

Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War and Peace, 

Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989. 

Social support and combat-related psychopathology: The mediating role of loneliness. 

Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Psychological Stress and 

Adjustment in Time of War and Peace, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 1989. 

The conceptualization and measurement of lay theories of emotions. Invited address for 

the Israel-European Conference in Social Psychology, Mizpe Ramon, Israel, 

January 1991. 

Perceived division of parental power: Comparison of Israeli Arab and Jewish 

adolescents. Paper presented at the International Journal of Psychology, Brussels, 

Begium, July 1992. 

Cultural influences on perceived family dynamics: Comparing Israeli Arab and Jewish 

adolescents. Paper presented at the International Journal of Psychology, Brussels, 

Begium, July 1992 

Fear of death and MMPI profile among middle-aged men. Paper presented in the Israel 

Psychological association Congress, Ramat Gan, Israel, October 1993. 

The effects of mortality salience on judgments of social deviance. Paper presented in 

the Israel Psychological association Congress, Ramat Gan, Israel, October 1993. 

Emotional and coping responses to learned helplessness. Paper presented in the Israel 

Psychological association Congress, Ramat Gan, Israel, October 1993. 

Inter-judge agreement in ratings of adult attachment style: The impact of 

acquaintanceship. The 7th International Conference on Personal Relationships. 

Kroningen, The Netherlands, June 1994. 

A multidimensional analysis of intimacy motivation. Paper presented in the Israel 

Psychological association Congress, Beer-Sheva, Israel, October 1995. 

Cognitive and emotional responses to loss: An attachment perspective. Paper presented 

in the Annual International Conference in Social Stress. Paris, France, May 1996. 

The psychodynamics of attachment styles. Invited address for the American 

Psychological Association Congress, Chicago, USA, August 1997. 

Adult attachment style and affect regulation. Invited Address for the Israel 

Psychological Association Congress, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 1997. 

Terror Management mechanisms and reckless driving. Paper presented in the American 

Psychological Association Congress, San Francisco, USA, August 1998. 

A terror management perspective of love and commitment. Paper presented in the Third 

Peleg-Bilig Center International Conference, Ramat-Gan, Israel, April 2000. 

New trends in Attachment Theory and Research. Symposium in the Israel 

Psychological Association Congress, Haifa, Israel, October 2000. 

Attachment security and intergroup bias. Paper presented in the Society for Personality 

and Social Psychology conference, San Antonio, February 2001.

The terror management function of close relationships. Paper presented in the 

Conference for Experimental Existential Psychology, Amsterdam, August 2001. 

Attachment theory and positive psychology. Paper presented in the American 

Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco, August 2001. 

Threat and the accessibility of attachment figures. Poster presented in the American 

Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco, August 2001. 

Affect regulation and coping with life crises – What we can learn from attachment 

theory? Invited lecture. Israeli Psycho-oncological Association Conference. Tel 

Aviv, October 2001. 

An attachment perspective on defensive processes. Paper presented in the Society for 

Personality and Social Psychology conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 2002. 

The dynamic interplay of global, relationship-specific, and contextual representations of 

attachment security. Paper presented in the Society for Personality and Social 

Psychology conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 2002. 

The Psychodynamics of Social Judgments: An Attachment Theory Perspective. Paper 

presented in the 5 th Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology. March 2002. 

Attachment Theory and Group Interactions. Invited lecture. Annual Israeli Group 

Therapy Association Conference. March 2002. 

Attachment Theory and Inter-group violence in Israel. Invited lecture. Annual Israeli 

Criminological Association Conference. May 2002. 

Attachment and Love Relationships- Psychodiagnostic Issues. Invited lecture. Annual 

Israeli Psychodiagnostic Association Conference. May 2002. 

TECHNICAL REPORTS 

Changes in performance during sleep deprivation, sustained operation and circadian 

rhythm: A brief applied report (1986, with Babkoff, H., & Caspy, T.). Research 

Department, Israel Ministry of Defense. 

Changes in performance during sleep deprivation, sustained operation and circadian 

rhythm: A review of findings, methodological aspects and theoretical frameworks 

and the setting of research objectives (1987, with Babkoff, H., & Caspy, T.). 

Research Department, Israel Ministry of Defense. 

Performance changes during sleep deprivation, sustained operation and circadian 

rhythms: First research report (1987, with Babkoff, H., Laor, T., & Caspy, T.). 

Research Department, Israel Ministry of Defense. 

Combat stress reactions in the 1982 Lebanon War: Clinical Interviews with the 

causalities. (1987, with Solomon, Z., & Benbenishty, R.) Mental Health 

Department, Research Branch, Israel Defense Forces. 

Course and correlates of reactivated combat stress reaction. (1987, with Solomon, Z., 

Oppenheimer, B., & Elizur, Y.) Mental Health Department, Research Branch, 

Israel Defense Forces.

Performance changes during sleep deprivation, sustained operation and circadian 

rhythms: Second research report (1988, with Babkoff, H., & Caspy, T.). Research 

Department, Israel Ministry of Defense. 

From CSR to PTSD: A three-year study. (1988, with Solomon, Z.) Mental Health 

Department, Research Branch, Israel Defense Forces. 

Dangerous driving and its relationship with personal and social factors (1995, with 

Taubman, O., & Iram, A.). Casualties Department, Research Branch, Israel 

Defense Forces. 

The cognitive-emotional-motivational structure of driving. (1996, with Taubman, O., & 

Iram, A.). Casualties Department, Research Branch, Israel Defence Forces.

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