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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting the founder of attachment theory: memories and informal reflections	57
The predictive significance of attachment script assessment hyperactivation and deactivation: evidence of associations with romantic relationship functioning	41
Relations between components of dismissing attachment representations and family relationships	32
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	25
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	23
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	22
Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic	21
Culture and attachment preference among young adults in Egypt and the United States	21
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	18
Prospecting the attachment research field: a move to the level of engagement	15
Commentary: attachment theory goes to school	15
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	13
A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning	13
An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours	13
Scripted attachment representations of current romantic relationships: measurement and validation	12
Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned	11
Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity	8
Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms	8
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	8
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	8
Revisiting the debate on effects of parental power-assertive control in two longitudinal studies: early attachment security as a moderator	8
A longitudinal study of child adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: the protective role of the parent-child relationship in middle childhood	8
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	7
Inflammatory and environmental contributions to social information processing	7
Correction	7

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 interacti	7
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support	7
Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
Celebrating more than 26,000 adult attachment interviews: mapping the main adult attachment classifications on personal, social, and clinical status	6
Young children’s preferences for their mothers: concurrent predictors and correlates	6
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	6
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory	6
The God, the blood, and the fuzzy: reflections onCornerstonesand two target articles	6
Six attachment discourses: convergence, divergence and relay	5
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Cornerstones and discourses in attachment study: celebrating the publication of a new landmark	5
Intergenerational transmission of trauma from mother to infant: the mediating role of disrupted prenatal maternal representations of the child	5
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	5
The role of childhood trauma and attachment state of mind in mothers’ birth experiences	4
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	4
The Attachment Script Assessment: Introduction of a coding system to evaluate deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content	4
Attachment and brooding rumination during children’s transition to adolescence: the moderating role of effortful control	4
Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	3
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	3
A meta-analytic examination of sensitive responsiveness as a mediator between depression in mothers and psychopathology in children	3
Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families	3
Children’s emerging receptive, positive orientation toward their parents in the network of early attachment relationships	3
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	3
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 attachment	3
Maternal sensitivity and child attachment security in a low SES Peruvian sample: longitudinal relationships	3
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	3
Secure base script knowledge and friendship quality as protective factors for bullying and victimization in elementary school	3
Predictions of adolescents’ responses to the Youth Self-Report from parental attachment interviews collected during pregnancy: a 17-year longitudinal study	2
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	2
Video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline in early elementary education (VIPP-School): a randomized controlled trial	2
The power of the adult attachment interview in predicting subsequent psychopathology: a tribute to Mary Main	2
Anxious to detect deceit: an empirical investigation of social defense theory	2
Childrens’ attachment story-completions and their theory of mind in three Turkish contexts: Seasonal migrant agricultural worker communities, residential group homes, and rural villages	2
Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt)	2
Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems	1
The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security	1
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	1
Natural clues to danger: attachment behavior in threatening situations	1
Longitudinal associations between mother-child attachment security in toddlerhood and white matter microstructure in late childhood: a preliminary investigation	1
Attachment hierarchy in Japan: examining the validity of important people interview in Japanese young adults	1
Attachment goes to court in Sweden: perception and application of attachment concepts in child removal court decisions	1
Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective	1
Expert reports: an empirical study of the use of attachment theory in expert assessments in Norwegian child protection cases	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
Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis	1
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	1
In defense of unresolved attachment: re-modelling intergenerational transmission of attachment	1
Effects of intellectual disability and attachment on hostile intent attribution bias	1
The intergenerational transmission of attachment during middle childhood in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parent families through assisted reproduction: The mediating role of reflective functioning	1