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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	63
Correction	19
Minding the Baby versus usual care: effects on parental sensitivity and parent-child interaction in a cluster quasi-randomized trial	14
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	11
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	11
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	10
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	10
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	10
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	9
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
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	8
Do empathy and oxytocin predict responsiveness to a crying infant simulator in expecting and non-expecting couples? A multilevel study	8
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	7
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	7
Exploring attachment representations and traumatic reenactment in foster children	7
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	6
Relational roots of retributive vs. restorative justice: attachment insecurity predicts harsher responses to crime	6
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	6
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	6
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	5
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	5
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	5
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	5

Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	5
Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	4
The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security	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
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	4
Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum	4
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	4
Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis	4
Variants of Callous-unemotional traits in childhood: investigation of attachment profile and hostile attribution bias	3
Deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content in the attachment script assessment: stability over time and significance for parenting behavior and physiology	3
Predictions of adolescents’ responses to the Youth Self-Report from parental attachment interviews collected during pregnancy: a 17-year longitudinal study	3
The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample	3
Mary Main's written legacy: a bibliometric analysis	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
Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned	3
Bridging parental attachment insecurity, social cognition, parenting, and temperament to elucidate the origins of antisocial orientation in preschoolers	3
Individual differences in infants’ expectations and preferences for responsive vs. unresponsive parent-puppets and their associations with early maternal behavior	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
Do Turkish mothers’ emotion regulation, psychological symptoms and caregiving helplessness vary based on attachment states of mind?	2
Mary Main, Disorganisation, and the MCAST	2
Exploring the cross-cultural validity of attachment theory: a study of Egyptian mother-child dyads using the Strange Situation Procedure	2
Relations among parents’ attachment, parenting quality, and autistic and nonautistic children’s social-emotional functioning	2
Attachment theory’s core hypotheses in rural Andean Peru	2
Enhancing classroom emotional support: the positive impact of improved mentalizing abilities in early childhood teachers following a group-based intervention	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
Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt)	1
A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning	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
Introduction to the double issue, the first and second issues of 2025, in honor of the legacy of Mary Main	1
Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity	1
The Attachment Script Assessment: Introduction of a coding system to evaluate deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content	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
Parental prenatal representations of the child are related to 18-month-old children’s social-emotional competence	1
Mary Main's contribution to our attachment research in Bielefeld and Regensburg: personal and professional memories	1
Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms	1
Young children’s preferences for their mothers: concurrent predictors and correlates	1
A meta-analytic examination of sensitive responsiveness as a mediator between depression in mothers and psychopathology in children	1
Celebrating more than 26,000 adult attachment interviews: mapping the main adult attachment classifications on personal, social, and clinical status	1
The legacy of Mary Main in attachment and developmental research in Israel	1
An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours	1
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support	1