Measuring Attachment: Developmental Assessment Across the Lifespan

Everett Waters, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. During his undergraduate and graduate studies, he worked with Mary Ainsworth, Mary Main, Inge Bretherton, and L. Alan Sroufe. Dr. Waters is a coauthor of Mary Ainsworth’s classic volume Patterns of Attachment and has published numerous articles on attachment theory and measurement. He is cofounder of the New York Attachment Consortium and a recipient of the Boyd McCandless Early Career Award from Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, the Bowlby-Ainsworth Award from the Center for Mental Health Promotion and the New York Attachment Consortium, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies.

Brian E. Vaughn, PhD, is Human Sciences Professor of Human Development at Auburn University. During his graduate studies at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, Dr. Vaughn was mentored by L. Alan Sroufe and Byron Egeland. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a recipient of the Bowlby-Ainsworth Award from the Center for Mental Health Promotion and the New York Attachment Consortium. Dr. Vaughn has contributed widely to the literature on attachment in infancy, early childhood, and early adulthood, with special interests in the intersections of attachment and temperament and the relation of infant attachment to social competence in early childhood.

Harriet Salatas Waters, PhD, is Emerita Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. During her graduate studies at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, Dr. Waters worked with John Flavell. She has made significant contributions to research on narrative attachment assessment and has originated research into the script-like structure of adult, adolescent, and middle childhood attachment representations.