Everett Waters

30.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
110 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

Everett Waters is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Everett Waters has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Social Psychology, 50 papers in Clinical Psychology and 27 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Everett Waters's work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (57 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (41 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (27 papers). Everett Waters is often cited by papers focused on Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (57 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (41 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (27 papers). Everett Waters collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Everett Waters's co-authors include Sally N. Wall, Mary C. Blehar, Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, L. Alan Sroufe, Inge Bretherton, Dominique Treboux, Brian E. Vaughn, Judith A. Crowell, E. Mark Cummings and Harriet Salatas Waters and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Review and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Everett Waters

109 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Stra... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1978 1977 1985 1985 2000 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation
    1978 8.3k citations Everett Waters et al. profile →
  2. Attachment as an Organizational Construct
    1977 1.1k citations L. Alan Sroufe, Everett Waters Child Development profile →
  3. Growing points of attachment theory and research
    1985 959 citations Inge Bretherton, Everett Waters Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development profile →
  4. Defining and Assessing Individual Differences in Attachment Relationships: Q-Methodology and the Organization of Behavior in Infancy and Early Childhood
    1985 822 citations Everett Waters et al. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development profile →
  5. Attachment Security in Infancy and Early Adulthood: A Twenty-Year Longitudinal Study
    2000 789 citations Everett Waters, Dominique Treboux et al. Child Development profile →
  6. Social competence as a developmental construct
    1983 526 citations Everett Waters, L. Alan Sroufe profile →
  7. Attachment, Positive Affect, and Competence in the Peer Group: Two Studies in Construct Validation
    1979 379 citations Everett Waters, L. Alan Sroufe et al. Child Development profile →
  8. Patterns of Attachment
    2015 345 citations Everett Waters et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Everett Waters United States 49 13.9k 13.2k 4.5k 3.2k 2.5k 110 20.4k
L. Alan Sroufe United States 75 17.2k 1.2× 10.7k 0.8× 2.9k 0.6× 3.0k 0.9× 2.5k 1.0× 141 23.4k
Michael E. Lamb United States 89 16.1k 1.2× 12.1k 0.9× 7.0k 1.6× 8.5k 2.7× 2.1k 0.9× 562 32.1k
Jude Cassidy United States 56 9.9k 0.7× 9.2k 0.7× 2.5k 0.6× 2.2k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 128 13.8k
E. Mark Cummings United States 78 15.6k 1.1× 12.0k 0.9× 8.1k 1.8× 5.7k 1.8× 3.5k 1.4× 351 22.7k
Byron Egeland United States 69 12.8k 0.9× 5.9k 0.4× 1.8k 0.4× 2.3k 0.7× 2.1k 0.9× 151 16.6k
Rex Forehand United States 75 13.6k 1.0× 4.9k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 4.1k 1.3× 2.6k 1.1× 491 20.4k
Mary D. Salter Ainsworth United States 26 9.4k 0.7× 8.5k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 48 14.6k
John Bowlby United Kingdom 44 25.2k 1.8× 21.3k 1.6× 6.0k 1.3× 9.0k 2.8× 3.5k 1.4× 109 41.0k
Gerald R. Patterson United States 81 17.4k 1.3× 7.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 4.2k 1.3× 1.2k 0.5× 163 22.8k
John E. Bates United States 92 23.6k 1.7× 10.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.4× 4.7k 1.5× 2.7k 1.1× 265 31.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Waters, Everett & Theodore E. A. Waters. (2024). Developmental change, bricolage, and how a lot of things develop: Mechanisms and changes in attachment across the lifespan. Development and Psychopathology. 36(5). 2256–2275. 2 indexed citations
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Grossmann, Klaus E., Inge Bretherton, Everett Waters, & Karin Grossmann. (2013). Maternal sensitivity: observational studies honoring Mary Ainsworth’s 100thyear. Attachment & Human Development. 15(5-6). 443–447. 12 indexed citations
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Waters, Everett, et al.. (2010). Strange carers. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. 11(2). 246–252. 2 indexed citations
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Kondo‐Ikemura, Kiyomi, et al.. (2010). Measuring infant attachment security in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): adaptation of the attachment Q‐set. American Journal of Primatology. 73(2). 109–118. 4 indexed citations
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Waters, Harriet Salatas & Everett Waters. (2006). The attachment working models concept: Among other things, we build script-like representations of secure base experiences. Attachment & Human Development. 8(3). 185–197. 352 indexed citations
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Waters, Everett, et al.. (2005). Attachment, Other Relationships, and the Theory that All Good Things Go Together. Human Development. 48(1-2). 80–84. 22 indexed citations
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Waters, Everett & Judith A. Crowell. (1999). Atypical Attachment in Atypical Circumstances. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 64(3). 213–220. 5 indexed citations
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Waters, Everett. (1995). Caregiving, cultural, and cognitive perspectives on secure-base behavior and working models : new growing points of attachment theory and research. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 179 indexed citations
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Posada, Germán, Everett Waters, James A. Crowell, & Keng‐Ling Lay. (1995). IS IT EASIER TO USE A SECURE MOTHER AS A SECURE BASE? ATTACHMENT Q-SORT CORRELATES OF THE ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60(2-3). 133–145. 61 indexed citations
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Kondo‐Ikemura, Kiyomi & Everett Waters. (1995). APPENDIX C: BACKGROUND AND SORTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ATTACHMENT Q-SET FOR INFANT MACAQUES AND THE MATERNAL Q-SET FOR MACAQUES. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60(2-3). 255–279. 1 indexed citations
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Kondo‐Ikemura, Kiyomi & Everett Waters. (1995). MATERNAL BEHAVIOR AND INFANT SECURITY IN OLD MONKEYS: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND A METHODOLOGICAL BRIDGE BETWEEN HUMAN AND NONHUMAN PRIMATE RESEARCH. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60(2-3). 97–110. 12 indexed citations
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Lay, Keng‐Ling, Everett Waters, Germán Posada, & Doreen Ridgeway. (1995). ATTACHMENT SECURITY, AFFECT REGULATION, AND DEFENSIVE RESPONSES TO MOOD INDUCTION. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60(2-3). 179–196. 34 indexed citations
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Crowell, Judith A., et al.. (1995). THE PROTOTYPE HYPOTHESIS AND THE ORIGINS OF ATTACHMENT WORKING MODELS: ADULT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARENTS AND ROMANTIC PARTNERS. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60(2-3). 216–233. 102 indexed citations
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Waters, Everett. (1995). APPENDIX A: THE ATTACHMENT Q-SET (VERSION 3.0). Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60(2-3). 234–246. 160 indexed citations
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Lay, Keng‐Ling, Everett Waters, Germán Posada, & Doreen Ridgeway. (1995). Attachment Security, Affect Regulation, and Defensive Responses to Mood Induction. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60(2/3). 179–179. 6 indexed citations
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Waters, Everett, et al.. (1989). Security of Attachment and Preschool Friendships. Child Development. 60(5). 1076–1076. 153 indexed citations
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Lay, Keng‐Ling, et al.. (1989). Maternal Responsiveness and Child Compliance: The Role of Mood as a Mediator. Child Development. 60(6). 1405–1405. 82 indexed citations
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Bretherton, Inge & Everett Waters. (1985). Growing points of attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 50. 959 indexed citations breakdown →
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Waters, Everett, et al.. (1979). Attachment, Positive Affect, and Competence in the Peer Group: Two Studies in Construct Validation. Child Development. 50(3). 821–821. 379 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sroufe, L. Alan & Everett Waters. (1977). HEART RATE AS A CONVERGENT MEASURE IN CLINICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 135 indexed citations

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