Erik Hesse

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Erik Hesse is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik Hesse has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Social Psychology, 14 papers in Clinical Psychology and 5 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Erik Hesse's work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (19 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 papers). Erik Hesse is often cited by papers focused on Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (19 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 papers). Erik Hesse collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Erik Hesse's co-authors include Mary Main, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Kelley Abrams, Anne Rifkin‐Graboi, Ruth Goldwyn, Kazuko Y. Behrens, Klaus Minde, Robbie Duschinsky, Leila Beckwith and Agata Rozga and has published in prestigious journals such as Developmental Psychology, Development and Psychopathology and Developmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Erik Hesse

19 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Parents' unresolved traumatic experiences are related to infant disorganized attachment status: Is frightened and/or frightening parental behavior the linking mechanism?

1990 865 citations Mary Main, Erik Hesse profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erik Hesse United States	16	2.5k	2.2k	643	452	439	20	3.2k
Carol George United States	29	2.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	666 1.0×	581 1.3×	625 1.4×	66	3.7k
Ellen Moss Canada	30	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	463 0.7×	614 1.4×	373 0.8×	80	3.0k
Judith Solomon United States	24	2.9k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	939 1.5×	680 1.5×	637 1.5×	39	4.1k
Diane Benoit Canada	26	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	515 0.8×	985 2.2×	379 0.9×	51	3.2k
Klaus E. Grossmann Germany	24	2.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	753 1.2×	510 1.1×	539 1.2×	52	3.4k
Deborah Jacobvitz United States	33	2.7k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	758 1.2×	677 1.5×	841 1.9×	73	3.7k
Lisa J. Berlin United States	30	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	446 0.7×	659 1.5×	702 1.6×	59	4.0k
P Crittenden United States	33	3.3k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	512 0.8×	520 1.2×	625 1.4×	81	4.0k
Laura V. Scaramella United States	34	2.4k 0.9×	919 0.4×	467 0.7×	799 1.8×	668 1.5×	54	3.4k
Zeynep Biringen United States	32	2.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	413 0.6×	1.0k 2.3×	423 1.0×	82	3.2k

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Rozga, Agata, Erik Hesse, Mary Main, et al.. (2017). A short-term longitudinal study of correlates and sequelae of attachment security in autism. Attachment & Human Development. 20(2). 160–180. 25 indexed citations

Granqvist, Pehr, et al.. (2016). Prior participation in the strange situation and overstress jointly facilitate disorganized behaviours: implications for theory, research and practice. Attachment & Human Development. 18(3). 235–249. 20 indexed citations

Simon-Thomas, Emiliana, et al.. (2016). Unresolved loss, a risk factor for offspring, predicts event-related potential responses to death-related imagery.. Developmental Psychology. 53(1). 191–199. 9 indexed citations

Duschinsky, Robbie, et al.. (2016). Parental loss of family members within two years of offspring birth predicts elevated absorption scores in college. Attachment & Human Development. 18(5). 429–442.

Main, Mary, et al.. (2011). ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH: OVERVIEW WITH SUGGESTED APPLICATIONS TO CHILD CUSTODY. Family Court Review. 49(3). 426–463. 63 indexed citations

Hesse, Erik. (2008). The Adult Attachment Interview: Protocol, method of analysis, and empirical studies.. 366 indexed citations

Main, Mary, Erik Hesse, & Ruth Goldwyn. (2008). Studying differences in language usage in recounting attachment history: An introduction to the AAI.. 71 indexed citations

Behrens, Kazuko Y., Erik Hesse, & Mary Main. (2007). Mothers' attachment status as determined by the Adult Attachment Interview predicts their 6-year-olds' reunion responses: A study conducted in Japan.. Developmental Psychology. 43(6). 1553–1567. 59 indexed citations

Hesse, Erik & Mary Main. (2006). Frightened, threatening, and dissociative parental behavior in low-risk samples: Description, discussion, and interpretations. Development and Psychopathology. 18(2). 309–43. 296 indexed citations

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Abrams, Kelley, Anne Rifkin‐Graboi, & Erik Hesse. (2006). Examining the role of parental frightened/frightening subtypes in predicting disorganized attachment within a brief observational procedure. Development and Psychopathology. 18(2). 345–61. 85 indexed citations

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Main, Mary, et al.. (2005). Predictability of Attachment Behavior and Representational Processes at 1, 6, and 19 Years of Age: The Berkeley Longitudinal Study.. 64 indexed citations

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Hesse, Erik & Mary Main. (2000). Disorganized Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Collapse in Behavioral and Attentional Strategies. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 48(4). 1097–1127. 369 indexed citations

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Hesse, Erik. (1999). The adult attachment interview: Historical and current perspectives.. 476 indexed citations

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Hesse, Erik & Mary Main. (1999). Second‐generation effects of unresolved trauma in nonmaltreating parents: Dissociated, frightened, and threatening parental behavior. Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 19(4). 481–540. 175 indexed citations

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Hesse, Erik & Marinus H. van IJzendoorn. (1999). Propensities towards absorption are related to lapses in the monitoring of reasoning or discourse during the Adult Attachment Interview. Attachment & Human Development. 1(1). 67–91. 57 indexed citations

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Hesse, Erik & Marinus H. van IJzendoorn. (1998). Parental loss of close family members and propensities towards absorption in offspring. Developmental Science. 1(2). 299–305. 41 indexed citations

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Hesse, Erik. (1996). Discourse, memory, and the adult attachment interview: A note with emphasis on the emerging cannot classify category. Infant Mental Health Journal. 17(1). 4–11. 135 indexed citations

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Minde, Klaus & Erik Hesse. (1996). The role of the adult attachment interview in parent-infant psychotherapy: A case presentation. Infant Mental Health Journal. 17(2). 115–126. 9 indexed citations

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Main, Mary, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, & Erik Hesse. (1993). Unresolved/Unclassifiable responses to the Adult Attachment Interview: Predictable from Unresolved States and Anomalous Beliefs in the Berkeley-Leiden Adult Attachment Questionnaire. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 15 indexed citations

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Main, Mary & Erik Hesse. (1990). Parents' unresolved traumatic experiences are related to infant disorganized attachment status: Is frightened and/or frightening parental behavior the linking mechanism?. 865 indexed citations breakdown →

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