Attachment & Human Development

Papers
(The TQCC of Attachment & Human Development is 6. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Revisiting the founder of attachment theory: memories and informal reflections57
The predictive significance of attachment script assessment hyperactivation and deactivation: evidence of associations with romantic relationship functioning32
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children31
Culture and attachment preference among young adults in Egypt and the United States25
Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic23
Mothers’ parental mentalization, attachment dimensions and mother-infant relational patterns22
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study21
Commentary: attachment theory goes to school18
Prospecting the attachment research field: a move to the level of engagement17
A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning15
An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours15
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term13
Scripted attachment representations of current romantic relationships: measurement and validation13
Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms12
Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned12
A longitudinal study of child adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: the protective role of the parent-child relationship in middle childhood12
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 researchers11
Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity9
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions8
Inflammatory and environmental contributions to social information processing8
Revisiting the debate on effects of parental power-assertive control in two longitudinal studies: early attachment security as a moderator8
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations8
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth8
The God, the blood, and the fuzzy: reflections onCornerstonesand two target articles7
Relations between components of dismissing attachment representations and family relationships7
Maternal and paternal insightfulness and reaction to the diagnosis in families of preschoolers with Autism spectrum disorder: associations with observed parental sensitivity and inter-parent interacti7
Mary Main: portrait and tribute7
Correction7
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years7
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support7
Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue6
The American contribution to attachment theory: John Bowlby’s WHO trip to the USA in 1950 and the development of his ideas on separation and attachment6
Cornerstones and discourses in attachment study: celebrating the publication of a new landmark6
Celebrating more than 26,000 adult attachment interviews: mapping the main adult attachment classifications on personal, social, and clinical status6
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory6
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