Mario Mikulincer
ADDRESSES
Department of Psychology41 Hish Street, Apt. 7
Bar-IlanUniversity Rehovot, 76266
Ramat Gan 52900Israel
IsraelPhone: 972-8-9454426
Phone: 972-3-5317782
Fax: 972-3-5350267
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Education
1976-1979Bar-Ilan University, Psychology B.A., 1979
1979-1982Bar-Ilan University, Experimental Psychology M.A., 1982
Supervisor: Prof. R. Lubow
1982-1985Bar-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-present Bar-IlanUniversity, Department of Psychology, Professor
Administrative Positions
1988-1992 Director of the MA Experimental Psychology Program, Bar-IlanUniversity
1993 Chairman of the 23th Israel Psychological Association Congress
1993-1995 Director of PhD program, Department of Psychology, Bar-IlanUniversity
1993-1995 Deputy-Head, Department of Psychology, Bar-IlanUniversity
1995-1999 Head, Department of Psychology, Bar-IlanUniversity
2001-2004 Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, Bar-IlanUniversity
2002-present Director, Peleg-BiligCenter for the Study of Family Well-Being,
Bar-IlanUniversity
2004-present Dean, Bar-IlanRegionalColleges
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
1996-present Peleg-BiligCenter for the Study of Family Well-Being, Bar-IlanUniversity
Professional Societies
American Psychological Association
International Association for Research in Relationships
Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Fellow
Honors and Awards
1992 – Listed among the 30 most-productive authors (4th place) in psychology journalsindexed by ISI in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Science between 1986and 1990. Current Contents, 41, 155-165.
1992 – Listed among the 100 most-productive authors (22th place) in the field of social psychology journals (according to the Overall PsycINFO productivity index) forthe decade of the 1980s. In Gordon, R. A., & Vicari, P. J. (1992). Eminence insocial psychology: A comparison of textbook citation, social sciences citationindex, and research productivity rankings. Personality and Social PsychologyBulletin, 18, 26-38.
2003 - Fellowof theSociety for Personality and Social Psychology
2004 - Listed among the 30 most-productive authors (9th place) in the Journal ofPersonality and Social Psychology from 1965 to 2000. In Quinones-Vidal, E., Lopez-Garcia, J. J., Penaranda-Ortega, & Tortosa-Gil, F. (2004). The nature ofsocial and personality psychology as reflected in JPSP, 1965-2000. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 435-452.
2004 - Awarded with the 2004 Psychology EMET prize for Arts, Science, & Culture
Research Interests
Attachment styles in adulthood; Terror Management theory, Personality processes ininterpersonal relationships; Evolutionary psychology, Human learned helplessness anddepression; Trauma and Post-traumatic processes;Coping with stress; Qualitativeresearch of emotional states;Mental rumination and self-focused attention
SERVICES TO PSYCHOLOGY
Editorship
2003-present Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Associate Editor
Editorial Boards
2002-present Journal of Personality
2000-2004 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID
2002-present Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: IRGP
2002-present Personal Relationships
2002-present Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
2003-present Psychological Inquiry
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
Current Directions in Psychological Science
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 Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Family Psychology
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
Personal Relationships
Personality and Individual Differences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Psychologia (hebrew)
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Science
Social Cognition
Ad Hoc Reviewer (Grant Foundations)
Binational Israeli-US Science Foundation
IsraeliAcademy of Sciences
Ford Foundation
Grant Foundation
Israeli Health Ministry
Israeli Education Ministry
Israeli Cancer Foundation.
National Science Foundation
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
Mikulincer, M. (1994). Human learned helplessness: A coping perspective. New York: Plenum Press.
Articles and book chapters
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). Post-traumatic 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). Post-traumatic 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 Psychology, 54, 679-686.
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 Psychology, 55, 470-478.
Mikulincer, M., & Solomon, Z. (1988). Attributional style and combat-related post-traumatic 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 post-traumatic 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 self-efficacy 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 combat-related 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 Psychology, 2, 241-256.
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 self-disclosure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 321-332.
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 forintimacy: 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.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Waysman, M. (1991). Delayed and immediate onset posttraumatic stress disorder: II. The role of battle experiences and personal resources. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 26, 8-13.
Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., & Waysman, M. (1991). Delayed and immediate onset 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.
Babkoff, H., Mikulincer, M., Caspy, T., & Sing, H. (1992). Selected problems of analysis and interpretation of the effects of sleep deprivation on performance rhythms. In Friedman, D., & Bruder, G. E. (Eds.), Psychophysiology and experimental psychopathology: A tribute to Samuel Sutton (pp. 93-110). New York: New YorkAcademy of Science.
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 three-year 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. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 817-826.
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 Psychology, 28, 323-335.
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 self-consciousness: 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, 687-695.