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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Commentary: attachment theory goes to school	66
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	54
Correction	36
Minding the Baby versus usual care: effects on parental sensitivity and parent-child interaction in a cluster quasi-randomized trial	28
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	21
Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families	19
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	16
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	15
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	14
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	13
Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems	12
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	12
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	11
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Do empathy and oxytocin predict responsiveness to a crying infant simulator in expecting and non-expecting couples? A multilevel study	10
Exploring attachment representations and traumatic reenactment in foster children	9
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	9
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	9
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	9
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	8
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	8
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	7
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	7
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	6

Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	6
Relational roots of retributive vs. restorative justice: attachment insecurity predicts harsher responses to crime	6
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	6
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	5
The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security	5
Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis	5
Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	5
Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum	5
The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample	5
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	5
Evidence of a developmental shift in the nature attachment representations: a longitudinal taxometric investigation of secure base script knowledge from middle childhood into adolescence	5
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	4
Deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content in the attachment script assessment: stability over time and significance for parenting behavior and physiology	4
Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned	4
Mary Main's written legacy: a bibliometric analysis	4
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	4
Inflammatory and environmental contributions to social information processing	4
Variants of Callous-unemotional traits in childhood: investigation of attachment profile and hostile attribution bias	4
Predictions of adolescents’ responses to the Youth Self-Report from parental attachment interviews collected during pregnancy: a 17-year longitudinal study	3
Relations among parents’ attachment, parenting quality, and autistic and nonautistic children’s social-emotional functioning	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	3
Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic	3
Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective	3
Do Turkish mothers’ emotion regulation, psychological symptoms and caregiving helplessness vary based on attachment states of mind?	3
Mary Main, Disorganisation, and the MCAST	3
The role of childhood trauma and attachment state of mind in mothers’ birth experiences	3
Attachment theory’s core hypotheses in rural Andean Peru	3
Enhancing classroom emotional support: the positive impact of improved mentalizing abilities in early childhood teachers following a group-based intervention	3
Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice	2
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support	2
Parental prenatal representations of the child are related to 18-month-old children’s social-emotional competence	2
Mary Main's contribution to our attachment research in Bielefeld and Regensburg: personal and professional memories	2
An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours	2
The legacy of Mary Main in attachment and developmental research in Israel	2
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	2
Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity	2
Exploring the cross-cultural validity of attachment theory: a study of Egyptian mother-child dyads using the Strange Situation Procedure	2
Introduction to the double issue, the first and second issues of 2025, in honor of the legacy of Mary Main	2
The psychological impact of parental work migration on left-behind children in Romania: a literature review	1
Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms	1
A meta-analytic examination of sensitive responsiveness as a mediator between depression in mothers and psychopathology in children	1
Anxious to detect deceit: an empirical investigation of social defense theory	1
Effects of intellectual disability and attachment on hostile intent attribution bias	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
The Attachment Script Assessment: Introduction of a coding system to evaluate deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content	1
The power of the adult attachment interview in predicting subsequent psychopathology: a tribute to Mary Main	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
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
Celebrating more than 26,000 adult attachment interviews: mapping the main adult attachment classifications on personal, social, and clinical status	1

Video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline in early elementary education (VIPP-School): a randomized controlled trial	1
Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt)	1