Object Attachment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A process model of attachment-friend linkages: hostile attribution biases, language ability, and mother-child affective mutuality as intervening mechanisms. 
  • Acceptance and commitment therapy and contextual behavioral science: examining the progress of a distinctive model of behavioral and cognitive therapy. 
  • 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. 
  • BIS and BAS interact with perceived parental affectionless control to predict personality disorder symptomatology. 
  • Can typical US home visits affect infant attachment? Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of Healthy Families Durham. 
  • Development and initial validation of a measure of attachment security in late adulthood. 
  • Direct social support for young high risk children: relations with behavioral and emotional outcomes across time. 
  • 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. 
  • Exploring the Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Mental Health and Coping in a Group of Canadian Psychiatric Outpatients. 
  • High-risk maternal and neonatal transport: psychosocial implications for practice. 
  • Impaired Mind-Body Connections in Psychosomatic Patients: A Contemporary Neuropsychodynamic Model. 
  • 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. 
  • More on attachment behavior: t'was the night before changeover. 
  • Mother-child agreement on the child assessment schedule with nonreferred children: a research note. 
  • Object permanence and relational words: a lexical training study. 
  • Oscillations of attachment in borderline personality disorder. 
  • Parent experience of caring for neonates with seizures. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of maternal early stimulation behaviors during pregnancy in northern Ghana: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Primatology: "a faithful friend is the medicine of life". 
  • 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 bonds do not mediate the relationship between early adversity and adult glucocorticoids in wild baboons. 
  • Social facilitation, affiliation, and dominance in the social life of spotted hyenas. 
  • Taking tests in the magnet: Brain mapping standardized tests. 
  • The Invalidating Childhood Environment Scale (ICES): psychometric properties and relationship to borderline personality symptomatology. 
  • The National Lesbian Family Study: 2. Interviews with mothers of toddlers. 
  • 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. 
  • Treatment of adolescents in family therapy after divorce. 
  • Trichotillomania--a review. 
  • 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 Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society