Katie Ehrlich, M.S. is a graduate research assistant working toward her Ph.D. in developmental psychology. She is studying how family experiences contribute to normal and abnormal social development. She is particularly interested in understanding how destructive family processes (e.g., conflict) shape adolescents’ peer experiences and risk for psychopathology. She is also interested in how psychophysiology can inform our understanding of cognitive processing of social information.

Laura J. Sherman, M.S. is a graduate research assistant working toward her Ph.D. in developmental psychology. She is interested in early attachment formation, attachment-based interventions, and parental attributions. She is particularly interested in how parents' beliefs and attributions about their infants relate to the quality of their relationship and the security of the attachment bond.

Brandi Stupica, M.S. is a graduate research assistant working toward her Ph.D. in developmental psychology. She is investigating infant temperament as a moderator of the effects of the caregiving environment on child development. She is particularly interested in examining temperament-by-environment interactions for evidence of differential susceptibility. Recently, she has broadened her interests to include the role of adult attachment in negotiation processes.

Matt Dykas, Ph.D. is a Maryland graduate. He is currently an Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego and Director of the Relationships Across Development Laboratory. He is interested in attachment and peer relationships in adolescence, caregiving processes, social-information processing, and attachment-based intervention.

Dykas, M., Ziv, Y., & Cassidy, J. (2008).  Attachment and peer relations in adolescence. Attachment and Human Development, 10, 123-141.

Lisa Berlin, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.

Duggan, A., Berlin, L. J., Cassidy, J., Burrell, L., & Tandon, D. (in press). Moderators of home visiting program impact in at-risk families of newborns: The roles of maternal depression and maternal attachment insecurity. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Brooke Feeney, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of Carnegie Mellon University Relationships Lab.

Feeney, B., & Cassidy, J. (2003). Reconstructive memory related to adolescent-parent conflict interactions: The influence of attachment models on changes in perceptions over time. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 945-955.

Fatima Ramos-Marcuse, Ph.D. is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She was a post-doctoral researcher in the Maryland Child and Family Development Lab.

Feeney, B. C., Cassidy, J., & Ramos-Marcuse, F. (2008). The generalization of attachment representations to new social situations: Predicting behavior during initial interactions with strangers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1481-1498.

Susan Woodhouse, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services at Pennsylvania State University. She was a post-doctoral researcher in the Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory.

Woodhouse, S. S., Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2009). Perceptions of secure base provision within the family. Attachment and Human Development, 11, 47-67.

Yair Ziv, Ph.D. is the Senior Study Director in the Child and Family Unit at Westat, Rockville, MD.  He was a post-doctoral researcher in the Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory. 

Kobak, R., Cassidy, J., Lyons-Ruth, K., & Ziv, Y. (2006). Attachment and developmental psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology, 2nd edition, (pp. 333-369). New York:  Wiley.

Cassidy, J., Woodhouse, S., Cooper, G., Hoffman, K., Powell, B., & Rodenberg, M. S. (2005). Examination of the precursors of infant attachment security: Implications for early intervention and intervention research. In L. J. Berlin, Y. Ziv, L. M. Amaya-Jackson, & M. T. Greenberg (Eds). Enhancing early attachments: Theory, research, intervention, and policy (pp. 34-60). New York: Guilford.

Tom Borkovec, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Penn State University.

Cassidy, J., Phelps, J., Sibrava, N. J., Thomas, C. L. Jr., & Borkovec, T. (2009). Generalized anxiety disorder: Connections with self-reported attachment. Behavior Therapy, 40, 23-38.

Stacey Daughters, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Community and Public Health and the Director of the Health and Addictions laboratory at the University of Maryland.

Our laboratory is currently collaborating with Dr. Daugthers to study connections among adolescent distress tolerance, risk behavior, friendship, and attachment.

Carl Lejuez, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland and Director of the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER).

Our lab is currently collaborating with Dr. Lejuez to study connections among adolescent distress tolerance, risk behavior, friendship, and attachment.

Michelle Gelfand, Ph.D. is Professor of Organizational psychology at University of Maryland.

Our lab is currently collaborating with Dr. Gelfand to study the role of attachment in negotiation processes.

Mario Mikulincer, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlyia.

Cassidy, J., Shaver, P. R., Mikulincer, M., & Lavy, S. (2009). Experimentally induced security influences response to psychological pain. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 28, 463-478.

Jonathan Mohr, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at George Mason University.

Cassidy, J., & Mohr, J. J. (2001). Unsolvable fear, trauma, and psychopathology: Theory, research, and clinical considerations related to disorganized attachment across the lifespan. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 275-298.

Phil Shaver, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor at University of California, Davis.

Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. R. (Eds.). (2008). Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (2nd edition). New York: Guilford Press.

Kent Hoffman, Bert Powell & Glen Cooper are the originators (along with Robert Marvin) of the Circle of Security attachment-based intervention.

Cassidy, J., Woodhouse, S., Cooper, G., Hoffman, K., Powell, B., & Rodenberg, M. S. (2005). Examination of the precursors of infant attachment security: Implications for early intervention and intervention research. In L. J. Berlin, Y. Ziv, L. M. Amaya-Jackson, & M. T. Greenberg (Eds). Enhancing early attachments: Theory, research, intervention, and policy (pp. 34-60). New York: Guilford.

Robert Marvin, Ph.D. is Research Professor at the University of Virginia and Director of The Mary D. Ainsworth Child-Parent Attachment Clinic. He is one of the originators of the Circle of Security attachment-based intervention.

Cassidy, J., Marvin, R. S., & the MacArthur Attachment Working Group. (1988, April). A system for classifying the organization of attachment behavior in 3- and 4-year-olds. Paper presented at the meetings of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington, DC.

Howard Steele, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology.

Dr. Steele is Editor of the journal Attachment and Human Development.

We would like to thank all of our dedicated undergraduate research assistants who make data collection, entry, and coding possible! We appreciate all your hard work!