Attachment and the processing of social information across the life span: theory and evidence.

MJ Dykas, J Cassidy - Psychological bulletin, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers have used J. Bowlby's (1969/1982, 1973, 1980, 1988) attachment theory
frequently as a basis for examining whether experiences in close personal relationships …

Parent support is less effective in buffering cortisol stress reactivity for adolescents compared to children

CE Hostinar, AE Johnson… - Developmental science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of the present study was to investigate developmental differences in the
effectiveness of parent support to alleviate hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis stress …

First empirical evaluation of the link between attachment, social cognition and borderline features in adolescents

C Sharp, A Venta, S Vanwoerden, A Schramm… - Comprehensive …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Several developmental models of borderline personality disorder (BPD)
emphasize the role of disrupted interpersonal relationships or insecure attachment. As yet …

Posttraumatic stress disorder: A social‐cognitive perspective.

C Sharp, P Fonagy, JG Allen - Clinical Psychology: Science and …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
This study offers a developmentally sensitive conceptual understanding of trauma by
viewing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the lens of social cognition. First, we …

Attachment style, vagal tone, and empathy during mother–adolescent interactions

LM Diamond, CP Fagundes… - Journal of Research on …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We tested associations among empathic responsiveness, attachment style, and vagal tone
(a physiologic index of emotion regulation) in 103 mother–adolescent dyads. Dyads …

Links between attachment and social information processing: Examination of intergenerational processes

MJ Dykas, KB Ehrlich, J Cassidy - Advances in child development and …, 2011 - Elsevier
This chapter describes theory and research on intergenerational connections between
parents' attachment and children's social information processing, as well as between …

Attachment‐related biases in adolescents' memory

MJ Dykas, SS Woodhouse, JD Jones… - Child …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Attachment theorists propose that individuals' internal working models influence their social
information processing. This study explored links between attachment representations and …

Social cognition mediates the relation between attachment schemas and posttraumatic stress disorder.

A Venta, C Hatkevich, W Mellick… - … , Practice, and Policy, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: A social–cognitive perspective on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been
proposed and posits that impaired social cognition, rooted in attachment insecurity, plays a …

Mentalizing mediates the relation between attachment and peer problems among inpatient adolescents

A Venta, C Sharp - Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Evidence suggests that insecure attachment operates on daily life through anomalies in
social cognitive processing. This study sought to evaluate the relation between one type of …

Attachment and maternal sensitivity are related to infants' monitoring of animated social interactions

S Biro, LRA Alink, R Huffmeijer… - Brain and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Infants have been shown to possess remarkable competencies in social
understanding. Little is known, however, about the interplay between the quality of infants' …