Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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Mary D. Salter Ainsworth D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

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Best Publications

• Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation

  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth;Mary C. Blehar;Everett Waters;Sally N. Wall

  26750
  Citations

• Patterns of attachment

  Mary D. Ainsworth

  7181
  Citations

• Attachment, exploration, and separation: Illustrated by the behavior of one-year-olds in a strange situation.

  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth;Silvia M. Bell

  2289
  Citations

• Object relations, dependency, and attachment: a theoretical review of the infant-mother relationship.

  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  1837
  Citations

• Infant crying and maternal responsiveness.

  Silvia M. Bell;Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  1208
  Citations

• Infant-mother attachment and social development: 'Socialisation' as a product of reciprocal responsiveness to signals.

  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth;Silvia M. Bell;Donelda J. Stayton

  1018
  Citations

• Child maltreatment: Child maltreatment and attachment theory

  Patricia M. Crittenden;Mary D. S. Ainsworth

  643
  Citations

• Patterns of Attachment

  Unknown

  623
  Citations

• Infant obedience and maternal behavior: The origins of socialization reconsidered.

  Donelda J. Stayton;Robert Hogan;Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  563
  Citations

• Attachments and other affectional bonds across the life cycle

  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  510
  Citations

• Early Face-to-Face Interaction and Its Relation to Later Infant-Mother Attachment.

  Mary C. Blehar;Alicia F. Lieberman;Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  389
  Citations

• Attachment as Related to Mother-Infant Interaction

  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  356
  Citations

• Patterns of infant-mother attachments: antecedents and effects on development.

  M D Ainsworth

  351
  Citations

• The Bowlby-Ainsworth attachment theory

  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  346
  Citations

• OBJECT RELATIONS, DEPENDENCY, AND ATTACHMENT: A THEORETICAL REVIEW OF THE INFANT-MOTHER RELATIONSHIP

  Unknown

  315
  Citations

• The effects of mother-child separation: a follow-up study.

  John Bowlby;Mary Ainsworth;Mary Boston;Dina Rosenbluth

  305
  Citations

• Patterns of attachment behavior shown by the infant in interaction with his mother.

  Mary D. Ainsworth

  259
  Citations

• Effects on infant–mother attachment of mother’s unresolved loss of an attachment figure, or other traumatic experience

  Unknown

  224
  Citations

• ON THE SHAPING OF ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH: AN INTERVIEW WITH MARY D. S. AINSWORTH (FALL 1994)

  Mary D. S. Ainsworth;Robert S. Marvin

  167
  Citations

• Individual Differences in Infant Responses to Brief, Everyday Separations as Related to Other Infant and Maternal Behaviors.

  Donelda J. Stayton;Mary D. Ainsworth

  165
  Citations