Mario Mikulincer

     
Institution
Interdisciplinary Center Herzlyia

Current Position
Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from Bar-Ilan University, 1985

Research Interests
Attribution
Close Relationships
Emotion
Evolution/Genetics
Interpersonal Processes
Motivation/Goal Setting
Personality
Prejudice/Stereotyping
Self/Identity
Social Cognition

Courses Taught
Attachment Theory and Research
Evolutionary Psychology
New Directions in Personality Research
Social Cognition
Theories of Personality
Theory and Research on Stress and Coping

 
Mario Mikulincer
New School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlyia
P.O. Box 167
46150 Herzliya
Israel

Home Page
Phone: 972-9-9602888
Fax: 972-9-9602845


Mario Mikulincer
Mario Mikulincer is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlyia. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and was awarded the 2004 Psychology EMET prize for Arts, Science, & Culture.

Professor Mikulincer has research interests in: 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.


Journal Articles:

  • Mikulincer, M., Dolev, T., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Attachment-Related Strategies During Thought-Suppression: Ironic Rebounds and Vulnerable Self-Representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 940-956.
  • Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2003). The existential function of close relationships – Introducing death into the science of love. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 20-40.
  • Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Attachment security, compassion, and altruism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14,34-38.
  • Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Attachment theory and emotions in close relationships: Exploring the attachment-related dynamics of emotional reactions to relational events. Personal Relationships, 12, 149-168.
  • Mikulincer, M, & Shaver, P. R. (2003). The Attachment behavioral system in adulthood: activation, psychodynamics, and interpersonal processes. In M. P. Zanna (ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 35, pp. 53-152). New York: Academic Press.
  • Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Pereg, D. (2003). Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related Strategies. Motivation and Emotion, 27, 77-102.
  • Pereg, D., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). Attachment style and the regulation of negative affect – Exploring individual differences in mood congruency effects on memory and judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 67-80.
  • Rom, E., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). Attachment theory and group processes: The association between attachment style and group-related representations, goals, memories, and functioning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1220-1235.
  • Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment Theory and Research: Resurrection of the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 22-45.

Other Publications:

  • Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). A multifaceted perspective on the existential meanings, manifestations, and consequences of the fear of personal death. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 54-70). New York: Guilford.
  • Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2004). The terror of death and the quest for love – An existential perspective on close relationships. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 287-304). New York: Guilford.
  • Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Mental representations of attachment security: Theoretical foundation for a positive social psychology. In M. W. Baldwin (ed.), Interpersonal Cognition (pp. 233-266). New York: Guilford Press.
  • Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Security-based self-representations in adulthood: Contents and processes. In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (eds.), Adult attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 159-195). New York: Guilford Press.
  • Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). What do self-report attachment measures assess? In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (eds.), Adult attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 17-54). New York: Guilford Press.
  • Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). The Psychodynamics of Social Judgments: An Attachment Theory Perspective. In Forgas, J. P., Williams, K. D., & von Hippel, W. (eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes (pp. 85-114). London, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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