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Philip A. Cowan is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and psychology, focusing particularly on family dynamics and relationships. They have contributed extensively to the study of attachment, child development, and intergenerational family processes.

The primary fields of study for Philip A. Cowan include Social Sciences with 21 published works and Psychology with 17. Their work further delves into several subfields such as Demography, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Safety Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

Main research topics addressed include:

  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Cinema and Media Studies

Among recent publications authored by Philip A. Cowan are:

  • TRUE Dads: The impact of a couples-based fatherhood intervention on family relationships, child outcomes, and economic self-sufficiency (2022), Family Process
  • Navigating the Gap Between Correlational and Intervention Studies of Fatherhood and Children's Development: A Family Systems Ecological Perspective (2024), Parenting

Other notable papers closely related to Cowan's research interests include:

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues (2021), Attachment & Human Development
  • 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

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Philip A. Cowan are:

  • Carolyn Pape Cowan
  • Tommie Forslund
  • Pehr Granqvist
  • Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
  • Avi Sagi-Schwartz

The scientist's publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Family Process
  • Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
  • The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy
  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Philip A. Cowan has also contributed to book literature. One notable work is Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland (2022), published by Lexington Books, which relates to cinema and media studies, aligning with their interdisciplinary research interests.

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

  • Ordinary physical punishment: Is it harmful? Comment on Gershoff (2002).

    Diana Baumrind;Robert E. Larzelere;Philip A. Cowan

  • 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

  • Piaget: With Feeling : Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Dimensions

    Philip A. 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

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

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Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn Pape Cowan
Carolyn Pape Cowan University of California, Berkeley
Patricia K. Kerig
Patricia K. Kerig University of Utah
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
George Mandler
George Mandler University of California, San Diego
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
James P. McHale
James P. McHale University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Rhona S. Weinstein
Rhona S. Weinstein University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey J. Wood
Jeffrey J. Wood University of California, Los Angeles
Michael W. Pratt
Michael W. Pratt University of California, San Diego
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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