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Papers

(The median citation count of Attachment & Human Development is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Commentary: attachment theory goes to school	62
Revisiting the founder of attachment theory: memories and informal reflections	43
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	32
Correction	25
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	24
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	23
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	22
Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families	21
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory	15
Intergenerational transmission of trauma from mother to infant: the mediating role of disrupted prenatal maternal representations of the child	14
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	13
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	13
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	12
Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems	11
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	10
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	8
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	8
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	8
Do empathy and oxytocin predict responsiveness to a crying infant simulator in expecting and non-expecting couples? A multilevel study	8
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	8
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	7
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	7
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	7

Mary Main: portrait and tribute	6
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	6
Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	5
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	5
The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security	5
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	5
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	5
The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample	4
Evidence of a developmental shift in the nature attachment representations: a longitudinal taxometric investigation of secure base script knowledge from middle childhood into adolescence	4
Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis	4
Attachment in retrospect and prospect	4
Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum	4
Variants of Callous-unemotional traits in childhood: investigation of attachment profile and hostile attribution bias	3
Inflammatory and environmental contributions to social information processing	3
Six attachment discourses: convergence, divergence and relay	3
Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective	3
Mary Main's written legacy: a bibliometric analysis	3
Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned	3
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	3
Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic	3
Deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content in the attachment script assessment: stability over time and significance for parenting behavior and physiology	3
A “transmission gap” between research and practice? A Q-methodology study of perceptions of the application of attachment theory among clinicians working with children and among attachment researchers	3
The role of childhood trauma and attachment state of mind in mothers’ birth experiences	3
The intergenerational transmission of attachment during middle childhood in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parent families through assisted reproduction: The mediating role of reflective functioning	2
Mary Main, Disorganisation, and the MCAST	2
Predictions of adolescents’ responses to the Youth Self-Report from parental attachment interviews collected during pregnancy: a 17-year longitudinal study	2
Attachment theory’s core hypotheses in rural Andean Peru	2
Parental prenatal representations of the child are related to 18-month-old children’s social-emotional competence	2
Exploring the cross-cultural validity of attachment theory: a study of Egyptian mother-child dyads using the Strange Situation Procedure	2
Do Turkish mothers’ emotion regulation, psychological symptoms and caregiving helplessness vary based on attachment states of mind?	2
The legacy of Mary Main in attachment and developmental research in Israel	2
Anxious to detect deceit: an empirical investigation of social defense theory	1
Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms	1
Parent-child relationship and child anger proneness in infancy and attachment security at toddler age: a short-term longitudinal study of mother- and father-child dyads	1
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support	1
Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity	1
A meta-analytic examination of sensitive responsiveness as a mediator between depression in mothers and psychopathology in children	1
Introduction to the double issue, the first and second issues of 2025, in honor of the legacy of Mary Main	1
Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice	1
An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours	1
The Attachment Script Assessment: Introduction of a coding system to evaluate deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content	1
Celebrating more than 26,000 adult attachment interviews: mapping the main adult attachment classifications on personal, social, and clinical status	1
Mary Main's contribution to our attachment research in Bielefeld and Regensburg: personal and professional memories	1
Improving the parent–child relationship and child adjustment through parental reflective functioning group intervention	1
A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning	1
Young children’s preferences for their mothers: concurrent predictors and correlates	1