Object Attachment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Acquisition and waning of exposure-induced attraction to a nonnatural odor in rat pups. 
  • Age-related differences in neural correlates of face recognition during the toddler and preschool years. 
  • Attachment and pain: recent findings and future directions. 
  • Attachment styles in patients with lung cancer and their spouses: associations with patient and spouse adjustment. 
  • Discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-esteem: implications for mate retention strategies and perceived infidelity. 
  • Evaluation of underlying mechanisms in the link between childhood ADHD symptoms and risk for early initiation of substance use. 
  • Heart for bonding: a new protocol of care for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • High-risk maternal and neonatal transport: psychosocial implications for practice. 
  • Inhibition of GH in maternal separation may be mediated through altered serotonergic activity at 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors. 
  • Life course theory as a framework to examine becoming a mother of a medically fragile preterm infant. 
  • Maladaptive trauma appraisals mediate the relation between attachment anxiety and PTSD symptom severity. 
  • Maternal childhood trauma, postpartum depression, and infant outcomes: Avoidant affective processing as a potential mechanism. 
  • Mother-child agreement on the child assessment schedule with nonreferred children: a research note. 
  • Oscillations of attachment in borderline personality disorder. 
  • Primatology: "a faithful friend is the medicine of life". 
  • Putting together phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspectives on empathy. 
  • Relations among relationships. 
  • Religious beliefs affect grieving after pregnancy loss. 
  • Romantic relationship patterns in young adulthood and their developmental antecedents. 
  • Self-recognition in autistic children. 
  • Social facilitation, affiliation, and dominance in the social life of spotted hyenas. 
  • The Invalidating Childhood Environment Scale (ICES): psychometric properties and relationship to borderline personality symptomatology. 
  • The emergence of affiliative behavior in infant spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). 
  • The infant's free entry into a new environment. 
  • The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. 
  • The prediction of adolescent homicide: episodic dyscontrol and dehumanization. 
  • The relation between insecure attachment and posttraumatic stress: Early life versus adulthood traumas. 
  • The usefulness of an assessment of emotional involvement of HIV-positive mothers and their infants. 
  • Two Studies of Connectedness to Parents and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Children and Adolescents. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society