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Overview

Glenn I. Roisman is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology, social sciences, and medicine. Their research largely focuses on clinical psychology and social psychology, with significant engagement in public health, demography, and education subfields.

The scientist's work spans a variety of topics, with core areas including attachment and relationship dynamics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family dynamics and relationships, child abuse and trauma, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, early childhood education and development, and child welfare and adoption.

Roisman has published scholarly articles in several key academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Development and Psychopathology, Developmental Psychology, Attachment & Human Development, Child Development, and UNC Libraries. These journals represent platforms where Roisman's research findings and analyses have been disseminated.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Roisman cover diverse topics within their research scope. Notable publications include:

  • "Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues," 2021, Attachment & Human Development
  • "Life stress and cortisol reactivity: An exploratory analysis of the effects of stress exposure across life on HPA-axis functioning," 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • "Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Retrospective Assessments of the Quality of Childhood Parenting: Prospective Evidence From Infancy to Age 26 Years," 2021, Psychological Science
  • "Convergent validity and stability of secure base script knowledge from young adulthood to midlife," 2020, Attachment & Human Development
  • "Preoccupied and Dismissing Attachment Representations Are Differentially Associated With Anxiety in Adolescence and Adulthood: A Meta-Analysis," 2020, Clinical Psychological Science

Roisman has worked collaboratively with several frequent coauthors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. These coauthors include Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Maria E. Bleil, Marissa D. Nivison, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, and Sophia W. Magro.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Affect Recognition Methods: Audio, Visual, and Spontaneous Expressions

    Zhihong Zeng;M. Pantic;G.I. Roisman;T.S. Huang

  • The significance of insecure attachment and disorganization in the development of children's externalizing behavior: a meta-analytic study.

    R. M. Pasco Fearon;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Anne-Marie Lapsley

  • Developmental cascades: linking academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing symptoms over 20 years.

    Ann S. Masten;Glenn I. Roisman;Jeffrey D. Long;Keith B. Burt

  • Salient and Emerging Developmental Tasks in the Transition to Adulthood.

    Glenn I. Roisman;Ann S. Masten;J. Douglas Coatsworth;Auke Tellegen

  • The Significance of Insecure and Disorganized Attachment for Children’s Internalizing Symptoms: A Meta‐Analytic Study

    Ashley M. Groh;Glenn I. Roisman;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

  • Resources and resilience in the transition to adulthood: continuity and change.

    Ann S. Masten;Keith B. Burt;Glenn I. Roisman;Jelena Obradovic

  • The Adult Attachment Interview and Self-Reports of Attachment Style: An Empirical Rapprochement

    Glenn I. Roisman;Ashley Holland;Keren Fortuna;R. Chris Fraley

  • Distinguishing differential susceptibility from diathesis-stress: recommendations for evaluating interaction effects.

    Glenn I. Roisman;Daniel A. Newman;R. Chris Fraley;John D. Haltigan

  • The significance of attachment security for children’s social competence with peers: a meta-analytic study

    Ashley M. Groh;R. Pasco Fearon;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • Attachment in the Early Life Course: Meta-Analytic Evidence for Its Role in Socioemotional Development

    Ashley M. Groh;R. M. Pasco Fearon;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

  • Patterns of stability in adult attachment: An empirical test of two models of continuity and change.

    R. Chris Fraley;Amanda M. Vicary;Claudia Chloe Brumbaugh;Glenn I. Roisman

  • Earned-secure attachment status in retrospect and prospect.

    Glenn I. Roisman;Elena Padrón;L. Alan Sroufe;Byron Egeland

  • Family rearing antecedents of pubertal timing.

    Jay Belsky;Laurence D. Steinberg;Renate M. Houts;Sarah L. Friedman

  • Interpersonal and genetic origins of adult attachment styles: A longitudinal study from infancy to early adulthood.

    R. Chris Fraley;Glenn I. Roisman;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Margaret Tresch Owen

  • The Enduring Predictive Significance of Early Maternal Sensitivity: Social and Academic Competence Through Age 32 Years

    K. Lee Raby;Glenn I. Roisman;R. Chris Fraley;Jeffry A. Simpson

  • The legacy of early experiences in development: Formalizing alternative models of how early experiences are carried forward over time.

    R. Chris Fraley;Glenn I. Roisman;John D. Haltigan

  • Predictors of young adults' representations of and behavior in their current romantic relationship: Prospective tests of the prototype hypothesis

    Glenn I Roisman;W Andrew Collins;L Alan Sroufe;Byron Egeland

  • The emotional integration of childhood experience: physiological, facial expressive, and self-reported emotional response during the adult attachment interview.

    Glenn I. Roisman;Jeanne L. Tsai;Kuan Hiong Sylvia Chiang

  • The coherence of dyadic behavior across parent–child and romantic relationships as mediated by the internalized representation of experience

    Glenn I. Roisman;Stephanie D. Madsen;Katherine H. Hennighausen;L. Alan Sroufe

  • A taxometric study of the Adult Attachment Interview.

    Glenn I. Roisman;R. Chris Fraley;Jay Belsky

  • Development and Psychopathology

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;C. Emily Durbin

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Chris Fraley
R. Chris Fraley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cathryn Booth-LaForce
Cathryn Booth-LaForce University of Washington
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Jeffry A. Simpson
Jeffry A. Simpson University of Minnesota
John D. Haltigan
John D. Haltigan University of Toronto
Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Elizabeth Cauffman
Elizabeth Cauffman University of California, Irvine

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