Mary Main
Impact in
- Clinical Psychology top 0.05%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Psychology top 0.05%
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Papers in
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- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics 33
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- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development 18
- Child Abuse and Trauma 9
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health 5
- Co-authors
- Jude Cassidy (4 shared papers)Nancy Kaplan (1 shared paper)Erik Hesse (12 shared papers)Judith Solomon (2 shared papers)Carol George (3 shared papers)Donna R. Weston (2 shared papers)Ruth Goldwyn (2 shared papers)Barbara Koslowski (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Developmental Psychology (13 papers)Child Development (4 papers)Attachment & Human Development (3 papers)Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2 papers)Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomNetherlands
In The Last Decade
Mary Main
47 papers receiving 9.9k citations
Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 120
- Clinical Psychology 8.8k
- Social Psychology 7.7k
- Demography 2.4k
- Safety Research 1.2k
- Pharmacy 422
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Fields of papers citing papers by Mary Main
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Co-authors
The 24 scholars most cited alongside Mary Main, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| 1 | Security in Infancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Move to the Level of Representation Hit paper breakdown → | 1985 | 3133 |
| 2 | Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 1303 |
| 3 | Parents' unresolved traumatic experiences are related to infant disorganized attachment status: Is frightened and/or frightening parental behavior the linking mechanism? Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 865 |
| 4 | Categories of response to reunion with the parent at age 6: Predictable from infant attachment classifications and stable over a 1-month period. Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 578 |
| 5 | Cross-Cultural Studies of Attachment Organization: Recent Studies, Changing Methodologies, and the Concept of Conditional Strategies Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 520 |
| 6 | The Quality of the Toddler's Relationship to Mother and to Father: Related to Conflict Behavior and the Readiness to Establish New Relationships Hit paper breakdown → | 1981 | 487 |
| 7 | The origins of reciprocity : The early mother-infant interaction Hit paper breakdown → | 1974 | 478 |
| 8 | 1984 | 415 | |
| 9 | 1979 | 390 | |
| 10 | 2000 | 369 | |
| 11 | Discovery of an insecure-disorganized/disoriented attachment pattern. | 1986 | 356 |
| 12 | 2000 | 342 | |
| 13 | 2006 | 296 | |
| 14 | 1981 | 242 | |
| 15 | 1996 | 226 | |
| 16 | Recent studies in attachment: Overview, with selected implications for clinical work. | 1995 | 217 |
| 17 | 1996 | 186 | |
| 18 | 1985 | 184 | |
| 19 | 1999 | 175 | |
| 20 | 1983 | 117 |
About Mary Main
Mary Main is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Safety Research, having authored 48 papers that have together received 11.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (33 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (9 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (9 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 papers), Child Welfare and Adoption (4 papers), Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (3 papers) and Infant Health and Development (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Clinical Psychology (8.8k citations), Social Psychology (7.7k citations), Demography (2.4k citations), Safety Research (1.2k citations) and Pharmacy (422 citations). Mary Main has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Attachment & Human Development, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Inquiry.
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