Publications by Amit Bernstein

• Bernstein, A., Aviad, N., Hadash, Y., & Amir, I. (in press). From Simple Mechanics to Complex Dynamics: A Dynamical Systems Science of Mindfulness and Meditation. American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001602
• Zohar Puris, S., Yuval, K., Gebremariam, S., Goldberg, S., Aviad, N., Baldwin, S., & Bernstein, A. (in press). Nonrandomized Open Trial of a Mindfulness- and Compassion-Based Selective Preventive Mobile Health Intervention for Forcibly Displaced People. Mindfulness. doi: 10.1007/s12671-025-02675-9
• Hadash, Y., Omer, D., Amir, I., Braver, T. & Bernstein, A. (2026). The Mindfulness Internal Attention (MIA) Framework: Uncovering Attentional Mechanisms of Mindfulness. Annual Review of Psychology, 77, 255-283. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-012925-030843
• Bachem, R., Levin, Y., Yuval, K., Maercker, A., Solomon, Z., & Bernstein, A. (2025). The role of maternal post-migration living difficulties in intergenerational trauma transmission among asylum-seeker mother-child dyads: Exploring complex posttraumatic stress disorder as a mechanism. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 17(8), 1615-1623. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001767
• Bernstein, A., Aizik-Reebs, A., Phung, Y., Yuval, K., Gebreyohans Gebremariam, S., & Vujanovic, A.A. (2025). Affective Mechanisms of Moral Injury in Trauma Recovery among Asylum Seekers: Exploring the Protective Effects of Mindfulness and Compassion Training. Clinical Psychological Science,14(1), 60-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026251344
• Amir, I., Aizik-Reebs, A., Yuval, K., Hadash, Y., & Bernstein, A. (2024). Cognitive Inhibition in Trauma Recovery among Asylum Seekers: Test in a Randomized Trial of Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(3), 347-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702623116495
• Bachem, R., Levin, Y., Yuval, K., Langer, N. K., Solomon, Z., & Bernstein, A. (2024). Complex posttraumatic stress disorder in intergenerational trauma transmission among Eritrean asylum-seeking mother-child dyads. European journal of psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2300588. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.2300588
• Hadash, Y. , Veksler, T., Dar, O., Oren-Schwartz, R., & Bernstein, A. (2024). Peak experiences during insight mindfulness meditation retreats and their salutary and adverse impact: A prospective matched-controlled intervention study. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 92(4), 213-225. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000875
• Hadash, Y., Ruimi, L., & Bernstein, A. (2023). Looking Inside the Black Box of Mindfulness: Investigating Attention and Awareness from Moment-to-Moment During Meditation. Psychological Assessment, 35(3), 242-256. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001194
• Aizik-Reebs, A., Amir, I., Kim, Y., Hadash, Y., & Bernstein, A. (2022). Candidate Mechanisms of Action of Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees (MBTR-R): Self-Compassion and Self-Criticism. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 90(2).
• Aizik-Reebs, A., Yuval, K., Beyene Kesete, Y., Lurie, I., & Bernstein, A. (2022). Prevalence and Prevention of Suicidal Ideation among Asylum Seekers in a High-Risk Urban Post-Displacement Setting. Epidemiology & Psychiatric Sciences, 31(76).
• Amir, I., & Bernstein, A. (2022). A Dynamic Systems Theory and Computational Model of Internal Attention and (Mal)Adaptive Internally-Directed Cognition: The Attention-to-Thoughts (A2T) Model. Psychological Inquiry, 4, 239-260. [Target article in 2023 Special Issue]
• Oren-Schwartz, R., Aizik-Reebs, A., Kim, Y., Hadash, Y., & Bernstein, A. (2022). Effect of Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees (MBTR-R) on Shame and Guilt in Trauma Recovery among African Asylum-Seekers. Emotion, 23(3), 622-632.
• Aizik-Reebs, A., Yuval, K.., Hadash, Y., Gebreyohans Gebremariam, S, & Bernstein, A. (2021). Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees (MBTR-R): Randomized Waitlist-Control Evidence of Efficacy and Safety. Clinical Psychological Science, 9(6), 1164-1184.
• Amir, I., Ruimi, L., & Bernstein, A. (2021). Simulating Thoughts to Measure and Study Internal Attention in Mental Health. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-17.
• Ruimi, L., Hadash, Y., Zvielli, A., Amir, I., Goldstein, P., & Bernstein, A. (2018). Meta-Awareness of Dysregulated Emotional Attention. Clinical Psychological Science, 6(5),658-670.
• Shoham, A., Hadash, Y., & Bernstein, A. (2018). Examining the Decoupling Model of Equanimity in Mindfulness Training: An Intensive Experience Sampling Study. Clinical Psychological Science, 6(5), 704-720.
• Reebs, A., Yuval, K., & Bernstein, A. (2017). Remembering and Responding to Distressing Autobiographical Memories: Exploring Risk and Intervention Targets for Posttraumatic Stress in Traumatized Refugees. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(5), 789-797.
• Bernstein, A., Hadash, Y., Lichtash, Y., Tanay, G., Shepherd, K., & Fresco, D. M. (2015). Decentering and Related Constructs: A Critical Review and Meta-Cognitive Processes Model. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(5), 599-617.