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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Elizabeth Meins is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family Support in Illness

Elizabeth Meins has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Developmental Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • British Journal of Psychology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Fionnuala Larkin
  • Yujin Lee
  • Charles Fernyhough
  • Annie Bernier
  • Janine Oostenbroek

Representative recent publications by Elizabeth Meins include:

  • Research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science (2020, British Journal of Psychology)
  • Mind-Mindedness and Stress in Parents of Children with Developmental Disorders (2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
  • Translation and preliminary validation of a Korean version of the parental reflective functioning questionnaire (2020, Infant Mental Health Journal)
  • Mind-mindedness versus mentalistic interpretations of behavior: Is mind-mindedness a relational construct? (2020, Infant Mental Health Journal)
  • Conceptual comparison of constructs as first step in data harmonization: Parental sensitivity, child temperament, and social support as illustrations (2022, MethodsX)

Elizabeth Meins has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Rethinking Maternal Sensitivity: Mothers’ Comments on Infants’ Mental Processes Predict Security of Attachment at 12 Months

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Emma Fradley;Michelle Tuckey

  • Maternal Mind–Mindedness and Attachment Security as Predictors of Theory of Mind Understanding

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Rachel Wainwright;Mani Das Gupta

  • Security of attachment and the social development of cognition

    Elizabeth Meins

  • Security of Attachment as a Predictor of Symbolic and Mentalising Abilities: A Longitudinal Study

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;James Russell;David Clark-Carter

  • Pathways to understanding mind: construct validity and predictive validity of maternal mind-mindedness.

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Rachel Wainwright;David Clark-Carter

  • Mind matters: A meta-analysis on parental mentalization and sensitivity as predictors of infant-parent attachment.

    Moniek A. J. Zeegers;Cristina Colonnesi;Geert-Jan J. M. Stams;Elizabeth Meins

  • Young children's trust in their mother's claims: longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris;Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough

  • Linguistic Acquisitional Style and Mentalising Development: The Role of Maternal Mind-mindedness

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough

  • Links among antenatal attachment representations, postnatal mind–mindedness, and infant attachment security: A preliminary study of mothers and fathers

    Bronia Arnott;Elizabeth Meins

  • Mind-Mindedness as a Multidimensional Construct: Appropriate and Nonattuned Mind-Related Comments Independently Predict Infant-Mother Attachment in a Socially Diverse Sample.

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Marc de Rosnay;Bronia Arnott

  • Sensitivity, security and internal working models: bridging the transmission gap.

    Elizabeth Meins

  • Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2‐year‐olds

    Susan R. Leekam;Jonathan Tandos;Helen McConachie;Elizabeth Meins

  • Mind-mindedness and theory of mind: Mediating roles of language and perspectival symbolic play

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Bronia Arnott;Susan R. Leekam

  • Associations between maternal mind-mindedness and infant attachment security: investigating the mediating role of maternal sensitivity.

    Jessica Laranjo;Annie Bernier;Elizabeth Meins

  • Sensitive attunement to infants' internal states: operationalizing the construct of mind-mindedness.

    Elizabeth Meins

  • Early Manifestations of Children's Theory of Mind: The Roles of Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Infant Security of Attachment.

    Jessica Laranjo;Annie Bernier;Elizabeth Meins;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • Research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science.

    Daryl B. O'Connor;John P. Aggleton;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Cary L. Cooper

  • Mind-Mindedness, Parenting Stress, and Emotional Availability in Mothers of Preschoolers.

    Catherine A. McMahon;Elizabeth Meins

  • Maternal mind-mindedness and children's behavioral difficulties: mitigating the impact of low socioeconomic status.

    Elizabeth Meins;Luna C. Muñoz Centifanti;Charles Fernyhough;Sarah Fishburn

  • Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Fiona Johnson;Jane Lidstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Fernyhough
Charles Fernyhough Durham University
Susan R. Leekam
Susan R. Leekam Cardiff University
Annie Bernier
Annie Bernier University of Montreal
Helen McConachie
Helen McConachie Newcastle University
Ann Le Couteur
Ann Le Couteur Newcastle University
Geert Jan J. M. Stams
Geert Jan J. M. Stams University of Amsterdam
Til Wykes
Til Wykes King's College London
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Susan M. Bögels
Susan M. Bögels University of Amsterdam
Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of Minnesota

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