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Publications by Matt Hirshberg

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
Jiwani, Z., Xie, Q., Lam, S., Walsh, T. B., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (in press). “I definitely think I can flourish”: Exploring first year college student experiences in a flourishing-focused class. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2025.2610287 PMCID: PMC12872226
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
Flook, L., Hirshberg, M. J., Gustafson, L., McGehee, C., Knoeppel, C., Tello, L. Y., Bolt, D. M., & Davidson, R. J. (2025). Mindfulness Training Enhances Students’ Executive Functioning and Social Emotional Skills. Applied Developmental Science, 29(2), 141-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2023.2297026 PMCID: PMC12007814 IES Confirmation ID: b09984d1f6c3482d9ab8623fc0dc8f70
Goldberg, S. B., Kendall, A. D., Hirshberg, M. J., Dahl, C. J., Nahum-Shani, I., Davidson, R. J., & Bray, B. C. (2025). Is dosage of a meditation app associated with changes in psychological distress? It depends on how you ask. Clinical Psychological Science, 13(2), 332-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241266567 PMCID: PMC11949467
Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., Velarde Arrisueño, L. B., Olvera Puentes, J. M., Medina Bardalez, X., Gonzalez, B. S., Goldberg, S. B., Chernicoff, L. I., & HCP-Well Study Group (2025). Digital Well-Being Training With Health Care Professionals: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 185(10), 1248-1256. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.3888 PMCID: PMC12362274
Hirshberg, M. J., Heyroth, M., & Davidson, R. J. (2025). Wellbeing skills strengthening as a model for healthy adolescent digital technology use. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 1550(1), 5-13. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15414 PMCID: PMC12313099
Hirshberg, M.J., Dahl, C.J., Bolt, D.M., Davidson, R.D., & Goldberg, S.B. (2025). Psychological Mediators of Reduced Distress: Preregistered Analyses from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-Based Well-Being Training Clinical Psychological Science, 13(1), 146-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241233262 PMCID: PMC11877121
Goldberg, S. B., Dahl, C. J., Bolt, D. M., Davidson, R. J., & Hirshberg, M. J. (2024). Does it matter how meditation feels? An experience sampling study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92(8), 531-541. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000857 PMCID: PMC11448736
Goldberg, S. B., Jiwani, Z., Bolt, D. M., Riordan, K. M., Davidson, R. J., & Hirshberg, M. J. (2024). Evidence for bidirectional, cross-lagged associations between alliance and psychological distress in an unguided mobile health intervention. Clinical Psychological Science, 12 (3), 517-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702623118489 PMCID: PMC11164554
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
Hirshberg, M. J., Flook, L., Sundaram-Stukel, R., & Davidson, R. J. (2024). Mindfulness and Connection Training During Preservice Teacher Education Reduces Early Career Teacher Attrition Four Years Later. Journal of School Psychology, 107, 101396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2024.101396 PMCID: PMC11634051
Hirshberg, M.J., Colainne, B.A., Greenberg, M.T., Inkelas, K.K., Davidson, R.J., & Roeser, R.W. (2024). COVID-19 pandemic effects on college student mental health: An acceleration or continuation of pre-pandemic worsening trends? A cross-sectional cohort comparison study. Journal of American College Health, 72(9), 3536-3545. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2023.2180989 PMCID: PMC10522793
Kral, T. R. A., Kesebir, P., Redford, L., Dahl, C., Wilson-Mendenhal, C., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Tatar, R. (2024). Healthy Minds Index: A brief measure of the core dimensions of wellbeing. PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0299352. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299352. PMCID: PMC11086875.
Webb, C. A., Hirshberg, M. J., Gonzalez, O., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2024). Revealing subgroup-specific mechanisms of change via moderated mediation: A meditation intervention example. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92(1), 44-53. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000842 PMCID: PMC10841335
Xie, Q., Riordan, K. M., Baldwin, S. A., Simonsson, O., Hirshberg, M. J., Dahl, C. J., Nahum-Shani, I., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2024). Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 177, 104537. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104537. PMCID: PMC11096024
Yeo, G.H., Lansford, J.E., Hirshberg, M.J, & Tong, E. M. W. (2024). Associations of childhood adversity with emotional well-being and educational achievement: A review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 347, 387-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.11.083 PMCID: PMC11614191
Galante, J., Friedrich, C., Collaboration of Mindfulness Trials (CoMinT), Dalgleish, T., Jones, P. B., & White, I. R. (2023). Individual participant data systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials assessing adult mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in non-clinical settings. Nature Mental Health, 1(7), 462-476. doi: 10.1038/s44220-023-00081-5 PMCID: PMC7615230
Grossmann, I., Rotella, A., Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S., Dhami, M. K., Guo, X. E., Kara-Yakoubian, M., Mandel, D. R., Raes, L., Tay, L., Vie, A., Wagner, L., Adamkovic, M., Arami, A., Arriaga, P., Bandara, K., Baník, G.,…Goldberg, S. B.,…Hirshberg, M. J.,...& The Forecasting Collaborative. (2023). Insights into accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 484-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1 PMCID:PMC10192018
Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2023). Educators are not alright: Mental health during COVID-19. Educational Researcher, 52(1), 48-52. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X221142595 PMCID: PMC9836832
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
Jiwani, Z., Tatar, R., Dahl, C., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. D., & Goldberg, S. B. (2023). Examining equity in access and utilization of a freely available meditation app. npj Mental Health Research, 2(5). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-023-00025-y PMCID: PMC10164442
Van Doren, N., Mahlobo, C. T., Galla, B. M., Colaianne, B. A., Hirshberg, M. J., Kurotsuchi Inkelas, K., & Roeser, R. W. (2023). The Role of Mindfulness and Compassion in Predicting Early Adults’ Subsequent Mental Health, Coping and Compliance with Health Guidelines during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Longitudinal Study. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17, e12870. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12870
Goldberg, S. B., Baldwin, S. A., Riordan, K. M., Torous, J., Dahl, C. J., Davidson, R. J., & Hirshberg, M. J. (2022). Alliance with an unguided smartphone app: Validation of the Digital Working Alliance Inventory. Assessment, 29(6), 1331-1345. doi:10.1177/10731911211015310. PMCID: PMC8599525
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
Hirshberg, M. J., Flook, L., Moss, E. E., Enright, R., & Davidson, R. J. (2022). Integrating Mindfulness and Connection Practices into Preservice Teacher Education Results in Durable Automatic Race Bias Reductions. Journal of School Psychology, 91, 50-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2021.12.002 PMCID:PMC8900452
Hirshberg, M. J., Frye, C., Dahl, C. J., Riordan, K. M., Vack, N. J., Sachs, J., Goldman, R., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2022). A randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-based well-being training in public school system employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(8), 1895–1911. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000739 PMCID: PMC9642982.
Kral, T. R. A., Davis, K., Korponay, C., Hirshberg, M. J., Hoel, R., Tello, L. Y., Goldman, R. I., Rosenkranz, M. A., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2022). Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials. Science Advances, 8(20), eabk3316. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk3316 PMCID: PMC9122316
Webb, C. A., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2022). Personalized Prediction of Response to Smartphone-Delivered Meditation Training: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(11), e41566. DOI: 10.2196/41566 PMCID: PMC9682449
Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. (2021). Brief breath awareness training yields poorer working memory performance in the context of acute stress. Cognition and Emotion, 35(5), 1009-1017. doi:10.1080/02699931.2021.1878113 PMCID: PMC8319214
Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M., & Davidson, R. J. (2021). Response to Van Dam and Galante’s correspondence “Underestimating harm in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.” Psychological Medicine, 1-3. doi:10.1017/S0033291720005346. PMCID:PMC8333244
Enright, R.D., Johnson, J., Na, F., Erzar, T., Hirshberg, M.J., Huang, T., ... & Hsiao, T. E. (2020). Measuring intergroup forgiveness: The Enright Group Forgiveness Inventory. Peace and Conflict Studies, 27(1), 1. DOI: 10.46743/1082-7307/2020.1614
Hirshberg, M. J., Flook, L., Enright, R. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2020). Integrating mindfulness and connection practices into preservice teacher education improves classroom practices. Learning and Instruction, 66, 101298. doi:/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2019.101298
Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M., Davidson, R. J. (2020). Prevalence of Harm in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Psychological Medicine, 52(6), 1080-1088. doi:10.1017/S0033291720002834. PMCID: PMC7889774
Goldberg, S. B., Hirshberg, M., Tello, L. Y., Weng, H. Y., Flook, L., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Still facial photographs of long-term meditators are perceived by naïve observers as less neurotic, more conscientious and more mindful than non-meditating controls. PLoS ONE, 14(8), e0221782. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221782 PMCID: PMC6713443
Kesebir, P., Gąsiorowska, A., Goldman, R., & Hirshberg, M. J., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Emotional Style Questionnaire: A multidimensional measure of healthy emotionality. Psychological Assessment, 31(10), 1234-1246. doi:10.1037/pas0000745 PMCID: PMC6776667
Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Schaefer, S., Findley, D., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Divergent effects of brief contemplative practices in response to an acute stressor: A randomized controlled trial of brief breath awareness, loving-kindness, gratitude or an attention control practice. PLoS ONE 13(12), 1-19. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0207765 PMCID: PMC6291192
Moss, E. & Hirshberg, M. J., Flook, L., & Graue, B. (2018). Cultivating reflective teaching practice through mindfulness. In Dorman, E., Byrnes, K. & Dalton, J. (Eds.) Impacting Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Teacher Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Enright, R.D., Lee, Y.R., Hirshberg, M.J., Hunt, J.C., Litts, B.K., Schirmer, E.B., Irwin, A.J., & Klatt, J. (2016). Examining group forgiveness and creating a new measure with implications for peace. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 22(2), 153–162. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000153