OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Minding the Baby versus usual care: effects on parental sensitivity and parent-child interaction in a cluster quasi-randomized trial	23
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	21
Attachment states of mind and reflective functioning in mothers who regret parenthood	18
Maternal empathy and emotional availability: the moderating role of child negative affectivity	14
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	14
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	14
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	11
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	11
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	10
Attachment security to mother is associated with lower trait expressive suppression among girls in middle childhood	10
Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems	9
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	9
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	9
Exploring attachment representations and traumatic reenactment in foster children	8
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	8
Attachment in adoptees and non-adoptees from infancy to young adulthood: the Greek Metera study	8
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	8
Relational roots of retributive vs. restorative justice: attachment insecurity predicts harsher responses to crime	7
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	7
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	6
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	6
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	6
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	6
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	6

Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	5
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	5
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	5
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	5
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	4
The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample	4
Attachment security in Georgian foster children: the role of parental sensitivity and child internalizing and externalizing behavior	4
Bridging parental attachment insecurity, social cognition, parenting, and temperament to elucidate the origins of antisocial orientation in preschoolers	4
Individual differences in infants’ expectations and preferences for responsive vs. unresponsive parent-puppets and their associations with early maternal behavior	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
Relationships among feeding method, maternal behavior during feeding, and mother–infant bonding at 1 year postpartum: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	3
Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned	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
Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic	3
Mary Main's written legacy: a bibliometric analysis	3
Predictions of adolescents’ responses to the Youth Self-Report from parental attachment interviews collected during pregnancy: a 17-year longitudinal study	3
Examining self-regulation as a heterogeneous construct: A nuanced approach to understanding its relational antecedents	3
Exploring interactive pathways to infant disorganized attachment in a sample of mothers with postpartum depression	3
Mary Main, Disorganisation, and the MCAST	2
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
Introduction to the double issue, the first and second issues of 2025, in honor of the legacy of Mary Main	2
Parental prenatal representations of the child are related to 18-month-old children’s social-emotional competence	2
Do Turkish mothers’ emotion regulation, psychological symptoms and caregiving helplessness vary based on attachment states of mind?	2
Exploring the cross-cultural validity of attachment theory: a study of Egyptian mother-child dyads using the Strange Situation Procedure	2
Mary Main's contribution to our attachment research in Bielefeld and Regensburg: personal and professional memories	2
Enhancing classroom emotional support: the positive impact of improved mentalizing abilities in early childhood teachers following a group-based intervention	2
Relations among parents’ attachment, parenting quality, and autistic and nonautistic children’s social-emotional functioning	2
The legacy of Mary Main in attachment and developmental research in Israel	2
An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours	2
Oxytocin and state attachment responses to secure base support after stress in middle childhood	1
Video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline in early elementary education (VIPP-School): a randomized controlled trial	1
Effects of intellectual disability and attachment on hostile intent attribution bias	1
Celebrating more than 26,000 adult attachment interviews: mapping the main adult attachment classifications on personal, social, and clinical status	1
Young children’s preferences for their mothers: concurrent predictors and correlates	1
Discrepancies between self- and partner-reported maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy: roles of maternal attachment and partner depressive symptoms	1
Anxious to detect deceit: an empirical investigation of social defense theory	1
The psychological impact of parental work migration on left-behind children in Romania: a literature review	1
Correction	1
Parent-child border separation and the road to repair: addressing a global refugee phenomenon	1
Parental sensitivity modifies the associations between maternal prenatal stress exposure, autonomic nervous system functioning and infant temperament in a diverse, low-income sample	1
Resolved or unresolved, that is the question: a case-study approach to discourse about abuse, trauma and maltreatment among mothers with mild intellectual disabilty	1
The Attachment Script Assessment: Introduction of a coding system to evaluate deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content	1
Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity	1
John Bowlby’s theory of attachment and separation: revisiting his original visions after 50+ years, what we know today, and where to go from here?	1
A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning	1
Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt)	1
Seeing is believing: comment on the special issue concerning online interventions	1

Mentalization, emotional arousal and readiness to gather information in the context of an ongoing relational rupture	1
Further reflections on the enduring influence of Mary Main's scholarship	1
A meta-analytic examination of sensitive responsiveness as a mediator between depression in mothers and psychopathology in children	1
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support	1
Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms	1
The power of the adult attachment interview in predicting subsequent psychopathology: a tribute to Mary Main	1
Correction	1