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Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

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Publications

27

Citations

6.3K

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24

Active since

1956

Affiliations

Johns Hopkins University(Current)

Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth is an author at Johns Hopkins University specializing in child development, psychology, and education.

Top concepts

Child DevelopmentEducationPsychologySocial SciencesChild PsychologyDevelopmental PsychologyParentingBehavioral ScienceEarly Childhood DevelopmentAttachment Theory

Publications per year

1956–1995

27

Publications

27

Attachment, Exploration, and Separation: Illustrated by the Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Silvia M. Bell · Child Development · 1970 · 1.7K citations

Infant Crying and Maternal Responsiveness

Silvia M. Bell, Mary D. Salter Ainsworth · Child Development · 1972 · 853 citations

Parental Care, Education, Breastfeeding +19

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 · 1991 · 694 citations

Parental Care, Education, Reciprocal Responsiveness +18

The Bowlby-Ainsworth attachment theory

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1978 · 328 citations

Literary Theory, Humanities, Literary History +5

A Psychological Exploration

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Leonard W. Doob · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1962 · 285 citations

Behavioral Sciences, Psychological Exploration, Social Sciences +5

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