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Carolyn Pape Cowan is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a significant focus on Demography, Clinical Psychology, and Social Psychology as prominent subfields. The core topics addressed in their work include Family Dynamics and Relationships, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Their recent scholarly contributions feature studies published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, reflecting a broad engagement with family-related psychological and social issues. Notable papers include:

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues, 2021, Attachment & Human Development
  • TRUE Dads: The impact of a couples-based fatherhood intervention on family relationships, child outcomes, and economic self-sufficiency, 2022, Family Process
  • Attachment security, divorce, parental estrangement, and reconciliation, 2021, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • La prise en compte des liens d'attachement au tribunal: protection de l'enfance et décisions de résidence des enfants dans les situations de séparation parentale, 2022, Devenir
  • Navigating the Gap Between Correlational and Intervention Studies of Fatherhood and Children's Development: A Family Systems Ecological Perspective, 2024, Parenting

Carolyn Pape Cowan collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most frequent coauthors include Philip A. Cowan, Tommie Forslund, Pehr Granqvist, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, and Avi Sagi-Schwartz, reflecting a network of scholarly partnerships particularly in the study of family and developmental psychology.

Their work is frequently published in journals such as Attachment & Human Development, Family Process, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Best Publications

  • When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples

    Carolyn Pape Cowan;Philip A. Cowan

  • Transitions to Parenthood His, Hers, and Theirs

    Carolyn Pape Cowan;Philip A. Cowan;Gertrude Heming;Ellen Garrett

  • Interventions to Ease the Transition to Parenthood: Why They Are Needed and What They Can Do

    Carolyn Pape Cowan;Philip A. Cowan

  • Promoting Fathers' Engagement with Children: Preventive Interventions for Low-Income Families.

    Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan;Marsha Kline Pruett;Kyle Pruett

  • Assessing young children's views of their academic, social, and emotional lives: an evaluation of the self-perception scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview.

    Jeffrey R. Measelle;Jennifer C. Ablow;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn P. Cowan

  • Thinking About Risk and Resilience in Families

    Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan;Marc S. Schulz

  • Marital Quality and Gender Differences in Parent-Child Interaction

    Patricia K. Kerig;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan

  • Parents' Attachment Histories and Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors: Exploring Family Systems Models of Linkage

    Philip A. Cowan;Deborah A. Cohn;Carolyn Pape Cowan;Jane L. Pearson

  • Working Models of Childhood Attachment and Couple Relationships

    Deborah A. Cohn;Daniel H. Silver;Carolyn P. Cowan;Philip A. Cowan

  • Externalizing in preschoolers and early adolescents : a cross-study replication of a family model

    N. B Miller;P. A Cowan;C Pape Cowan;E. M Hetherington

  • Attachment Security in Couple Relationships: A Systemic Model and Its Implications for Family Dynamics

    Mario Mikulincer;Victor Florian;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan

  • Who does what when partners become parents: Implications for men, women, and marriage.

    Carolyn Pape Cowan;Philip A. Cowan

  • Earned- and continuous-security in adult attachment: Relation to depressive symptomatology and parenting style

    Jane L. Pearson;Deborah A. Cohn;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan

  • Mothers' and fathers' working models of childhood attachment relationships, parenting styles, and child behavior

    Deborah A. Cohn;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn P. Cowan;Jane Pearson

  • Coming home upset: Gender, marital satisfaction, and the daily spillover of workday experience into couple interactions.

    Marc S. Schulz;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan;Richard T. Brennan

  • Mothers and Fathers Teaching 3-Year-Olds: Authoritative Parenting and Adult Scaffolding of Young Children's Learning

    Michael W. Pratt;Patricia Kerig;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan

  • Promoting healthy beginnings: a randomized controlled trial of a preventive intervention to preserve marital quality during the transition to parenthood.

    Marc S. Schulz;Carolyn Pape Cowan;Philip A. Cowan

  • Can children provide coherent, stable, and valid self-reports on the big five dimensions? A longitudinal study from ages 5 to 7

    Jeffrey R. Measelle;Oliver P. John;Jennifer C. Ablow;Philip A. Cowan

  • Interventions as tests of family systems theories: marital and family relationships in children's development and psychopathology.

    Phillip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan

  • Attachment, Marital Satisfaction, and Divorce During the First Fifteen Years of Parenthood.

    Gilad Hirschberger;Sanjay Srivastava;Penny Marsh;Carolyn Pape Cowan

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Cowan
Philip A. Cowan University of California, Berkeley
Patricia K. Kerig
Patricia K. Kerig University of Utah
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
Rhona S. Weinstein
Rhona S. Weinstein University of California, Berkeley
Alan J. Hawkins
Alan J. Hawkins Brigham Young University
Michael W. Pratt
Michael W. Pratt University of California, San Diego
Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia
Anne Gregory
Anne Gregory Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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