Everett Waters

30.5k citations

110 papers · 20.4k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Clinical Psychology top 0.02%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Family and Disability Support Research
Social Psychology top 0.01%
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Papers in ⓘ

Social Psychology 66
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics 57
Clinical Psychology 50
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development 41

Co-authors: Mary C. Blehar (2 shared papers)Sally N. Wall (2 shared papers)Mary D. Salter Ainsworth (2 shared papers)L. Alan Sroufe (12 shared papers)Inge Bretherton (2 shared papers)Dominique Treboux (15 shared papers)Brian E. Vaughn (16 shared papers)Judith A. Crowell (10 shared papers)
Journals: Child Development (32 papers)Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (16 papers)Developmental Psychology (15 papers)Attachment & Human Development (6 papers)Developmental Review (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Taiwan

In The Last Decade

Everett Waters

109 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Patterns of Attachment 2015 · 345 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Psychology Press eBooks
2000 Child Development
1985 Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
1985 Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
1983 Developmental Review
1979 Child Development
1978 Medical Entomology and Zoology
1977 Child Development

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1	Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Mary C. Blehar, Everett Waters, Sally N. Wall Hit paper breakdown →	1978	8314
2	Attachment as an Organizational Construct Child Development ·L. Alan Sroufe, Everett Waters Hit paper breakdown →	1977	1092
3	Growing points of attachment theory and research Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ·Inge Bretherton, Everett Waters Hit paper breakdown →	1985	959
4	Defining and Assessing Individual Differences in Attachment Relationships: Q-Methodology and the Organization of Behavior in Infancy and Early Childhood Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ·Everett Waters, Kathleen E. Deane Hit paper breakdown →	1985	822
5	Attachment Security in Infancy and Early Adulthood: A Twenty-Year Longitudinal Study Child Development ·Everett Waters, Susan Merrick, Dominique Treboux, Judith A. Crowell, Leah Albersheim Hit paper breakdown →	2000	789
6	Social competence as a developmental construct Developmental Review ·Everett Waters, L. Alan Sroufe Hit paper breakdown →	1983	526
7	Attachment, Positive Affect, and Competence in the Peer Group: Two Studies in Construct Validation Child Development ·Everett Waters, Judith Wippman, L. Alan Sroufe	1979	441
8	A Secure Base from Which to Explore Close Relationships Child Development ·Everett Waters, E. Mark Cummings	2000	417
9	Attachment, Positive Affect, and Competence in the Peer Group: Two Studies in Construct Validation Child Development ·Everett Waters, Judith Wippman, L. Alan Sroufe Hit paper breakdown →	1979	379
10	The attachment working models concept: Among other things, we build script-like representations of secure base experiences Attachment & Human Development ·Harriet Salatas Waters, Everett Waters	2006	352
11	Patterns of Attachment Psychology Press eBooks ·Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Mary C. Blehar, Everett Waters, Sally N. Wall Hit paper breakdown →	2015	345
12	Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment at Twelve and Eighteen Months: Stability and Change in Families under Stress Child Development ·Brian E. Vaughn, Byron Egeland, L. Alan Sroufe, Everett Waters	1979	330
13	The Stability of Attachment Security from Infancy to Adolescence and Early Adulthood: General Introduction Child Development ·Everett Waters, Claire E. Hamilton, Nancy S. Weinfield	2000	317
14	The Reliability and Stability of Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment Child Development ·Everett Waters	1978	285
15	The ontogenesis of smiling and laughter: A perspective on the organization of development in infancy. Psychological Review ·L. Alan Sroufe, Everett Waters	1976	224
16	Marital Adjustment, Parental Disagreements about Child Rearing, and Behavior Problems in Boys: Increasing the Specificity of the Marital Assessment Child Development ·Ernest N. Jouriles, Christopher M. Murphy, Annette M. Farris, David A. Smith, John E. Richters, Everett Waters	1991	181
17	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 ·Everett Waters	1995	179
18	Attachment Behavior at Home and in the Laboratory: Q-Sort Observations and Strange Situation Classifications of One-Year-Olds Child Development ·Brian E. Vaughn, Everett Waters	1990	176
19	Acquisition of emotion-descriptive language: Receptive and productive vocabulary norms for ages 18 months to 6 years. Developmental Psychology ·Doreen Ridgeway, Everett Waters, Stan A. Kuczaj	1985	171
20	Security of Attachment and Preschool Friendships Child Development ·Kathryn A. Park, Everett Waters	1989	170

About Everett Waters

Everett Waters is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology, having authored 110 papers that have together received 20.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (57 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (41 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (27 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (10 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (9 papers), Infant Health and Development (7 papers), Child Welfare and Adoption (7 papers) and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Clinical Psychology (13.9k citations), Social Psychology (13.2k citations), Demography (4.5k citations), Safety Research (1.9k citations) and Pharmacy (932 citations). Everett Waters has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Taiwan. Frequent co-authors include Mary C. Blehar, Sally N. Wall, Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, L. Alan Sroufe, Inge Bretherton, Dominique Treboux, Brian E. Vaughn, Judith A. Crowell, E. Mark Cummings and Harriet Salatas Waters. Their work appears in journals such as Child Development, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Attachment & Human Development and Developmental Review.

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