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Mario Mikulincer

Mario Mikulincer

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Psychology
Israel
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
129
Citations
75149
World Ranking
175
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Mario Mikulincer is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with extensive work in clinical psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional interests include sociology and political science as well as health-related topics.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas related to attachment and relationship dynamics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and the mental health impacts of COVID-19. Specific topics include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, grief and bereavement, family dynamics and relationships, and death anxiety and social exclusion.

Recent notable publications by Mikulincer include:

  • Enhancing the "Broaden and Build" Cycle of Attachment Security in Adulthood: From the Laboratory to Relational Contexts and Societal Systems (2020) published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Other relevant recent papers by close research collaborators relate to topics surrounding emotional support, attachment, and COVID-19 anxiety:

  • Attachment theory and religion (2020), Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Enhancing Emotional Support: The Effect of a Robotic Object on Human-Human Support Quality (2021), International Journal of Social Robotics
  • Motivated Helplessness in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence for a Curvilinear Relationship Between Perceived Ability to Avoid the Virus and Anxiety (2020), Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
  • Between Action and Emotional Survival During the COVID-19 era: Sensorimotor Pathways as Control Systems of Transdiagnostic Anxiety-Related Intolerance to Uncertainty (2021), Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mikulincer include:

  • Phillip R. Shaver (22 joint publications)
  • Uri Lifshin (10 joint publications)
  • Pehr Granqvist (7 joint publications)
  • Zahava Solomon (7 joint publications)
  • Shaul Lev-Ran (6 joint publications)

Publication venues where Mikulincer's works frequently appear include:

  • PsycTESTS Dataset (7 publications)
  • Attachment & Human Development (5 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (3 publications)
  • Current Opinion in Psychology (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Mikulincer has contributed to academic books. One such publication is The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2020), published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related Strategies

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver;Dana Pereg

  • The Attachment Behavioral System in Adulthood: Activation, Psychodynamics, and Interpersonal Processes.

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment-related psychodynamics

    Phillip R. Shaver;Mario Mikulincer

  • The relationship between adult attachment styles and emotional and cognitive reactions to stressful events.

    Mario Mikulincer;Victor Florian

  • Attachment styles and patterns of self-disclosure.

    Mario Mikulincer;Orna Nachshon

  • Attachment styles, coping strategies, and posttraumatic psychological distress: the impact of the Gulf War in Israel.

    Mario Mikulincer;Victor Florian;Aron Weller

  • An attachment perspective on psychopathology.

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment, caregiving, and altruism: boosting attachment security increases compassion and helping.

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver;Omri Gillath;Rachel A. Nitzberg

  • Boosting Attachment Security to Promote Mental Health, Prosocial Values, and Inter-Group Tolerance

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: Threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures.

    Mario Mikulincer;Omri Gillath;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment theory and emotions in close relationships: Exploring the attachment-related dynamics of emotional reactions to relational events

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment theory and intergroup bias: evidence that priming the secure base schema attenuates negative reactions to out-groups.

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment working models and the sense of trust : An exploration of interaction goals and affect regulation

    Mario Mikulincer

  • Attachment styles and repressive defensiveness: the accessibility and architecture of affective memories.

    Mario Mikulincer;Israel Orbach

  • Attachment styles and fear of personal death: A case study of affect regulation.

    Mario Mikulincer;Victor Florian;Rami Tolmacz

  • Attachment style and the mental representation of the self.

    Mario Mikulincer

  • Appraisal of and Coping with a Real-Life Stressful Situation: The Contribution of Attachment Styles

    Mario Mikulincer;Victor Florian

  • Does hardiness contribute to mental health during a stressful real-life situation? The roles of appraisal and coping.

    Victor Florian;Mario Mikulincer;Orit Taubman

  • Adult attachment style and individual differences in functional versus dysfunctional experiences of anger

    Mario Mikulincer

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
Zahava Solomon
Zahava Solomon Tel Aviv University
Victor Florian
Victor Florian Bar-Ilan University
Omri Gillath
Omri Gillath University of Kansas
Gilad Hirschberger
Gilad Hirschberger Reichman University
Israel Orbach
Israel Orbach Bar-Ilan University
Guy Doron
Guy Doron Reichman University
Gurit E. Birnbaum
Gurit E. Birnbaum Reichman University
Tsachi Ein-Dor
Tsachi Ein-Dor Reichman University
Michael Kyrios
Michael Kyrios Flinders University

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