Sroufe, L. Alan, and Waters, Everett. Attachment as an Organizational Construct. Child
Development, 1977, 48, 1184–1199. Developmentalists have often conceptualized infant�…

A meta-analysis of 172 studies attempted to resolve the conflict between previous narrative
reviews on whether parents make systematic differences in their rearing of boys and girls�…

As Bowlby himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a
successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Giving time and attention to children means�…

Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences
theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding primary relationships across the�…

Attachment theory is the joint work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth (see Ainsworth and
Bowlby, 1991). Drawing on concepts from ethology, cybernetics, information processing�…

In film and television recordings of face-to-face interactions of mothers with their infants aged
one to three months, my students and I have observed extremely complex behaviours that�…

In the past, researchers have treated the development of the emotions and the task of
emotional regulation as two separate topics, the former emphasizing" normative" questions�…

The Emergence of Symbols: Cognition and Communication in Infancy provides information
pertinent to the nature and origin of symbols, the interdependence of language and thought�…

A perspective on the study of personality development recently has evolved, which is an
integration of general developmental theory (Santostefano & Baker, 1972), ego theory�…

With the discovery of conditioned reflexes by IP Pavlov, the possibilities for experimenting,
following the example set by the classical, exact sciences, were made available to the�…