Mary Main

19.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
48 papers, 11.6k citations indexed

About

Mary Main is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary Main has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 11.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Social Psychology, 29 papers in Clinical Psychology and 9 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Mary Main's work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (33 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (9 papers). Mary Main is often cited by papers focused on Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (33 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (9 papers). Mary Main collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Mary Main's co-authors include Jude Cassidy, Nancy Kaplan, Erik Hesse, Judith Solomon, Carol George, Donna R. Weston, Ruth Goldwyn, Barbara Koslowski, T. Berry Brazelton and Marie Blanchard and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, PEDIATRICS and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Mary Main

47 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Security in Infancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Move to the Level of Representation

1985 3.1k citations Mary Main, Jude Cassidy et al. profile →
Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation

1990 1.3k citations Mary Main, Judith Solomon profile →
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 →
Categories of response to reunion with the parent at age 6: Predictable from infant attachment classifications and stable over a 1-month period.

1988 578 citations Mary Main, Jude Cassidy Developmental Psychology profile →
Cross-Cultural Studies of Attachment Organization: Recent Studies, Changing Methodologies, and the Concept of Conditional Strategies

1990 520 citations Mary Main profile →
The Quality of the Toddler's Relationship to Mother and to Father: Related to Conflict Behavior and the Readiness to Establish New Relationships

1981 487 citations Mary Main, Donna R. Weston Child Development profile →
The origins of reciprocity : The early mother-infant interaction

1974 478 citations T. Berry Brazelton, Barbara Koslowski et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mary Main United States	30	8.8k	7.7k	2.4k	1.6k	1.4k	48	11.6k
Mary C. Blehar United States	18	6.3k 0.7×	5.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	33	10.0k
Sally N. Wall United States	3	5.9k 0.7×	5.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	6	8.9k
Jude Cassidy United States	56	9.9k 1.1×	9.2k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	128	13.8k
Mary D. Salter Ainsworth United States	26	9.4k 1.1×	8.5k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.4k 1.5×	1.9k 1.3×	48	14.6k
Karlen Lyons‐Ruth United States	57	10.2k 1.2×	5.6k 0.7×	998 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	2.5k 1.7×	164	12.3k
Byron Egeland United States	69	12.8k 1.5×	5.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.5×	151	16.6k
Wyndol Furman United States	50	8.2k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.9×	651 0.5×	112	13.8k
Inge Bretherton United States	39	5.2k 0.6×	4.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	718 0.5×	70	9.3k
W. Andrew Collins United States	53	5.4k 0.6×	4.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	616 0.4×	145	10.0k
Duane Buhrmester United States	32	6.3k 0.7×	5.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.5×	464 0.3×	42	10.2k

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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

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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

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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

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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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Bretherton, Inge & Mary Main. (2000). Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth (1913–1999): Obituary.. American Psychologist. 55(10). 1148–1149. 2 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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Main, Mary. (1996). Introduction to the special section on attachment and psychopathology: 2. Overview of the field of attachment.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 64(2). 237–243. 226 indexed citations

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Main, Mary. (1995). Recent studies in attachment: Overview, with selected implications for clinical work.. 217 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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Main, Mary & Judith Solomon. (1990). Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation. 121–160. 1303 indexed citations breakdown →

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Main, Mary & Jude Cassidy. (1988). Categories of response to reunion with the parent at age 6: Predictable from infant attachment classifications and stable over a 1-month period.. Developmental Psychology. 24(3). 415–426. 578 indexed citations breakdown →

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Main, Mary & Judith Solomon. (1986). Discovery of an insecure-disorganized/disoriented attachment pattern.. 356 indexed citations

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Main, Mary & Donna R. Weston. (1981). The Quality of the Toddler's Relationship to Mother and to Father: Related to Conflict Behavior and the Readiness to Establish New Relationships. Child Development. 52(3). 932–932. 487 indexed citations breakdown →

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Main, Mary & Donna R. Weston. (1981). The Quality of the Toddler's Relationship to Mother and to Father: Related to Conflict Behavior and the Readiness to Establish New Relationships. Child Development. 52(3). 932–940. 7 indexed citations

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George, Carol & Mary Main. (1979). Social Interactions of Young Abused Children: Approach, Avoidance, and Aggression. Child Development. 50(2). 306–306. 390 indexed citations

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Main, Mary. (1979). The ultimate causation of some infant attachment phenomena: further answers, further phenomena, and further questions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2(4). 640–643. 16 indexed citations

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Main, Mary, et al.. (1979). Differences among mothers of infants judged to differ in security.. Developmental Psychology. 15(4). 472–473.

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Main, Mary, et al.. (1979). Differences among mothers of infants judged to differ in security.. Developmental Psychology. 15(4). 472–473. 56 indexed citations

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Brazelton, T. Berry, Barbara Koslowski, & Mary Main. (1974). The origins of reciprocity : The early mother-infant interaction. 478 indexed citations breakdown →

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