Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth (née Salter; December 1, 1913 – March 21, 1999)[1] was an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the development of the attachment theory. She designed the strange situation procedure to observe early emotional attachment between a child and their primary caregiver.
A 2002 Review of General Psychology survey ranked Ainsworth as the 97th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[2] Many of Ainsworth's studies are "cornerstones" of modern-day attachment theory.[3][4]
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Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth (née Salter; December 1, 1913 – March 21, 1999) was an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the...
and they know that they can depend on them to return. John Bowlby and MaryAinsworth developed a theory known as attachment theory after inadvertently studying...
probability of survival for the child. Research by developmental psychologist MaryAinsworth in the 1960s and '70s underpinned basic concepts and topics relative...
Theory: John Bowlby and MaryAinsworth" (1992)". Developmental Psychology. 28 (5): 759–775. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.28.5.759. Ainsworth, M. D, Blehar, M, Waters...
76 years. Laban Ainsworth was born in Woodstock, Connecticut on July 19, 1757, to Captain William Ainsworth and his wife, MaryAinsworth. As a result of...
officer, the lieutenant commander Michael Lionel Yeoward Ainsworth RN, and Patricia MaryAinsworth (née Bedford, later Beeny). He was educated at the Ludgrove...
The strange situation is a procedure devised by MaryAinsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment in children, that is relationships between a caregiver...
obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia under the supervision of MaryAinsworth. She has served on various University faculties internationally, and...
based on the research of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and MaryAinsworth. Rooted in psychoanalysis, the theory speculates that attachment develops...
developed theoretically by John Bowlby and formalized empirically by MaryAinsworth. Bowlby was trained psychoanalytically but was concerned about some...
meaning of this term are by no means new, as the following statement by MaryAinsworth in 1962 indicates: "Although in the early months of life it is the mother...
relationship experiences can lead to different developmental outcomes. MaryAinsworth developed a theory of a number of attachment patterns or "styles" in...
individuals as a secure base for exploration. A collaborator of Bowlby's, MaryAinsworth, developed a standardised laboratory observation procedure named the...
alienation Parental responsibility Paternity Shared parenting Experts MaryAinsworth John Bowlby T. Berry Brazelton Rudolf Dreikurs David Elkind Jo Frost...
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2006. Consistent with the founders of attachment theory, especially MaryAinsworth, William Sears teaches that a strong mother-child-attachment emerges...
John Tooby Pierre van den Berghe Psychologists / cognitive scientists MaryAinsworth Simon Baron-Cohen Justin L. Barrett Jay Belsky Jesse Bering David F...
alienation Parental responsibility Paternity Shared parenting Experts MaryAinsworth John Bowlby T. Berry Brazelton Rudolf Dreikurs David Elkind Jo Frost...
others. It resulted from the combined work of John Bowlby and MaryAinsworth (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991). Ethics in personal relations. This considers...
field of psychology. MaryAinsworth's work centered around attachment theory. Building off fellow psychologist John Bowlby, Ainsworth spent years doing fieldwork...
alienation Parental responsibility Paternity Shared parenting Experts MaryAinsworth John Bowlby T. Berry Brazelton Rudolf Dreikurs David Elkind Jo Frost...
Strange Situation Procedure (devised by developmental psychologist MaryAinsworth), the separation and reunion procedure and the Preschool Assessment...
attachment is with their primary caregiver(s) as infants. John Bowlby and MaryAinsworth first delineated and tested attachment theory as an evolutionarily informed...
50s, researchers such as John Bowlby, Harry Harlow, Robert Hinde, and MaryAinsworth began pursuing the study of mother-infant attachment. In 1949, Reuben...
Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. pp. 29–80. Ainsworth, Mary (1978). "The Bowlby-Ainsworth attachment theory". The Behavioral and Brain Sciences...
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