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Publications by John D. Dunne

Goldberg, S. B., Jiwani, Z., Dahl, C. J., Tatar, R., Dunne, J. D., Davidson, R. J., & Hirshberg, M. J. (in press). Sitting and active meditation practice: Utilization and associations with outcomes in naturalistic and clinical trial data. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-026-02787-w PMCID: PMC12971069
Colaianne, B. A., Hirshberg, M. J., Inkelas, K. K., Greenberg, M. T., Davidson, R. J., Germano, D. F., Dunne, J. D., & Roeser, R. W. (2025). Can the virtual implementation of a college course on human flourishing improve student flourishing during COVID-19? A multi-university study. Journal of American College Health, 73(4), 1837-1846. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2025.2452968 PMCID: PMC11985306
Jiwani, Z., Goldberg, S. B., Stroud, J., Young, J., Curtin, J., Dunne, J. D., Simonsson, O., Webb, C. A., Carhart-Harris, R., & Schlosser, M. (2025). Can psychedelic use benefit meditation practice? Examining individual, psychedelic, and meditation-related factors. PLOS ONE, 20(2), e0310160. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310160 PMCID: PMC11819602
Hirshberg, M. J., Colaianne, B. A., Greenberg, M. T., Inkelas, K. K., Davidson, R. J., Germano, D., Dunne, J. D., & Roeser, R. W. (2024). College Course About Flourishing and Students’ Mental Health During SARS-CoV-2. JAMA Network Open, 7(11), e2444845. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.44845 PMCID: PMC11561689
McClintock, S. L., & Dunne, J. D. (2024). Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland: Ratnāvalī. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. New York: Wisdom Publications. (Book)
Nicholas, C. R., Banks, M. I., Lennertz, R. C., Wenthur, C. J., Krause, B. M., Riedner, B. A., Smith, R. F., Hutson, P. R., Sauder, C. J., Dunne, J. D., Roseman, L., & Raison, C. L. (2024). Co-Administration of midazolam and psilocybin: Differential effects on subjective quality versus memory of the psychedelic experience. Translational Psychiatry, 14(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-03059-8 PMCID: PMC11393325
Tidwell, T., Eisenberg, L. E., Fedotov, A., Kokurina, E., Boytsova, J., Desel, T., Sangpo, L., Norbu, N., Chokdrup, J., Tsering, D., Sherap, T., Chhonden, T., Dorje, Y., Lama, C., Lhundup, K., Jamyang, Lharkyab, Phuntsok, L., Wangchuk, T., Lhakpa, S., Namgyal, L., Dorjee, Y., Lobsang, T., Zhironkina, Y., Goldman, R. I., Namdul, T., Blake, K. E., Tesch, E., Sangmo, R., Dunne, J. D., Nagendra, R. P., Kutty, B. M., Rinpoche, T. T., Tamdin, T., Sadutshang, T. D., Davidson, R. J., & Medvedev, S. (2024). Delayed decompositional changes in indoor settings among Tibetan monastic communities in India: A case report. Forensic Science International: Reports, 9, 100370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2024.100370
Inkelas, K. K., Colaianne, B. A., Hirshberg, M. J., Greenberg, M. T., Davidson, R. J., Dunne, J. D., Germano, D. & Roeser, R. W. (2023). Does variability across three universities in the implementation of a college course on human flourishing affect student outcomes? Journal of American College Health, 71(4), 1111-1124. doi:10.1080/07448481.2021.1920956 PMCID:PMC8812660
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2023). Visualizing Compassion: Episodic Simulation as Contemplative Practice. Mindfulness, 14(10), 2532–2548. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01842-6 PMCID: PMC10655951.
Dunne, J.D. (2022). Contemplative Science and Buddhist Science. In P. Arai and K. Trainor (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dunne, J.D. and Manheim, J.S. (2022). “Compassion, Self-Compassion and Skill in Means: A Mahāyāna Perspective.” Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01864-0
Hirshberg, M. J., Colaianne, B., Greenberg, M. T., Inkelas, K., Davidson, R. J., Germano, D., Dunne, J. D., Roeser, R. W. (2022). Can the Academic and Experiential Study of Flourishing Improve Flourishing in College Students? A Multi-University Study Mindfulness, 13(9), 2243-2256.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01952-1 PMCID:PMC9667904
Lott, D. T., Yeshi, T., Dolma, S., Tsering, N., Jinpa, N., Woser, T., Dorjee, K., Desel, T., Fitch, D., Finley, A. J., Goldman, R., Ortiz Bernal, A. M., Ragazzi, R., Aroor, K., Koger, J., Francis, A., Perlman, D. M., Wielgosz, J., Bachhuber, D. R. W., Tamdin, T., Sadutshang, T. D., Dunne, J. D., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2021). No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity 24-hours After Clinical Declaration of Death among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in apparent tukdam, a putative postmortem meditation state. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3873. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.599190. PMCID: PMC7876463
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. & Dunne, J. D. (2021). Cultivating emotional granularity. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:703658. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703658 PMCID: PMC8751584
Compendium Selection Committee, Dalai Lama XIV, and Dunne, J.D. (2020). The Mind. Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Introduction by the Dalai Lama XIV. Contextual essays by J.D. Dunne. Translated by J.D. Dunne and D. Rochard. Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 2. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.
Dunne, J. (2020). Pac-Man to the rescue: Conceptuality and non-conceptuality in the Dharmakīrtian Theory of Pseudo-Perception. Philosophy East and West. 70(3), 571-593. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/pew.2020.0045
Condon, P., Dunne, J., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. (2019). Wisdom and compassion: A new perspective on the science of relationships. Journal of Moral Education, 48(1), 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2018.1439828
Dunne, J, Thompson, E., & Schooler, J. (2019). Mindful meta-awareness: Sustained and non-propositional. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 307-311. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.003
Dunne, J. (2019). Innate human connectivity and Śāntideva’s cultivation of compassion In J. Gold & D. Duckworth (Eds.), Readings of Śāntideva’s guide to Bodhisattva practice (pp. 235-252). New York: Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/gold19266
Rosenkranz, M. A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). The next generation of mindfulness-based intervention research: What have we learned and where are we headed? Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 179-83 doi:10.1016/j.codoipsyc.2018.12.022 PMCID: PMC6609495
Wielgosz, J., Goldberg, S. B., Kral, T. R. A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Mindfulness meditation and psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 15, 285-316. doi:10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-021815-093423 PMCID: PMC6597263
Wilson-Mendenhall, C., J. Dunne, & P. Condon. (2019). Achieving deep integration across disciplines: A process lens on investigating human flourishing. In N. Snow & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory: Self, Motivation, and Virtue Innovative Interdisciplinary Research. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Dunne, J. (2018). Reflexivity in Buddhist epistemology: Implications for cooperative cognition. In M. Farjoun, W. Smith, A Langley, & H. Tsoukas (Eds.), Perspectives on Process Organization Studies: Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life (82-105). New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198827436.003.0005
Fucci, E., Abdoun, O., Caclin, A., Francis, A., Dunne, J. D., Ricard, M., Davidson, R. J., & Lutz, A. (2018). Differential effects of non-dual and focused attention meditations on the formation of automatic perceptual habits in expert practitioners. Neuropsychologia, 119, 92-100. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.025 PMCID: PMC7050275
Dunne, J. D. (2016). Comments on waking, dreaming, being by Evan Thompson. Philosophy East and West. doi:10.1353/pew.2016.0064
Dunne, J. D. (2015). First thoughts towards Buddhist economics. In Singer, T., & Ricard, M. (Eds.), In Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems (pp. 85-96). New York: Picador.
Dunne, J. D. (2015). Buddhist styles of mindfulness: A heuristic account. In B. D. Ostafin, M. D. Robinson, & B. P. Meier (Eds), Handbook of mindfulness and self-regulation (251-270). New York: Springer.
Harrington, A., & Dunne, J. D. (2015). When mindfulness is therapy: Ethical qualms, historical perspectives. American Psychologist, 70(7), 621–31. doi:10.1037/a0039460
Lutz, A., Jha, A. P., Dunne, J. D., & Saron, C.D. (2015). Investigating the phenomenological matrix of mindfulness-related practices from a neurocognitive perspective. American Psychologist, 70(7), 632–58. doi:10.1037/a0039585 PMCID: PMC4608430
Dunne, J. D. (2014). What is inner science? In C. Wedemeyer, J. D. Dunne, & T. Yarnall (Eds.), In Vimalakirti’s House: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. F. Thurman on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday (pp. 317-341). New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies.
Dunne, J. D. (2011). Key features of Dharmakirti's Apoha Theory. In Siderits, M., Tillemans, T., & Chakrabarti, A. (Eds)., Apoha: Buddist Nominalism and Human Cognition (pp. 84-108). New York: Columbia University Press.
Dunne, J. D. (2011). Madhyamika in India and Tibet. In Garfield, J., & Edelglass, W. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy (pp. 206-221). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dunne, J. D. (2011). Toward an understanding of non-dual mindfulness. Contemporary Buddhism, 12, 71–88. doi:10.1080/14639947.2011.564820
Dunne, J. D. (2010). Compassion, knowledge and power: A Tibetan approach to politics and religion. In Kaplan, L., & Cohen, C. (Eds.), Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State (pp. 341-362). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Lutz, A., Slagter, H. A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2008). Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(4), 163-169. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2008.01.005 PMCID: PMC2693206
Lutz, A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2007). Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction. In P. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch, & E. Thompson (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. New York: Cambridge University Press.