Published Accomplishments in 2002-2005

Frei, J. R., & Shaver, P. R. (2002). Respect in close relationships: Prototype definition, self-report assessment, and initial correlates. Personal Relationships, 9, 121-139.

Mikulincer, M., Gillath, O., & Shaver, P. R. (2002). Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: Threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 881-895.

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2002). Attachment-related psychodynamics. Attachment and Human Development, 4, 133-161.

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2002). Dialogue on adult attachment: Diversity and integration. Attachment and Human Development, 4, 243-257.

Schachner, D. A., & Shaver, P. R. (2002). Attachment style and human mate poaching. New Review of Social Psychology, 1, 122-129.

Alonso-Arbiol, I., Shaver, P. R., & Yárnoz, S. (2002). Insecure attachment, gender roles, and interpersonal dependency in the Basque Country. Personal Relationships, 9, 479-490.

Schachner, D. A., Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). Adult attachment theory, psychodynamics, and couple relationships: An overview. In S. M. Johnson & V. Whiffen (Eds.), Attachment processes in couple and family therapy (pp. 18-42). New York: Guilford Press.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2003). The attachment behavioral system in adulthood: Activation, psychodynamics, and interpersonal processes. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 35, pp. 53-152). New York: Academic Press.

Davis, D., Shaver, P. R., & Vernon, M. L. (2003). Physical, emotional, and behavioral reactions to breaking up: The roles of gender, age, emotional involvement, and attachment style. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 871-884.

Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Pereg, D. (2003). Attachment theory and affect regulation: The dynamics, development, and cognitive consequences of attachment-related strategies. Motivation and Emotion, 27, 77-102.

Tracy, J. L., Shaver, P. R., Albino, A. W., & Cooper, M. L. (2003). Attachment styles and adolescent sexuality. In P. Florsheim (Ed.), Adolescent romance and sexual behavior: Theory, research, and practical implications (pp. 137-159). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). The psychodynamics of social judgments: An attachment theory perspective. In J. P. Forgas, K. D. Williams, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes (pp. 85-114). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.

            Schmitt, D. P., … , Shaver, P. R., … , & Zupanèiè, A. (2003). Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions. Personal Relationships, 10, 309-333.

Schmitt, D. P., . . . , Shaver, P. R., . . . , & Zupanèiè, A. (2003). Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 85-104.

Schachner, D. A., Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). Adult attachment theory, psychodynamics, and couple relationships: An overview. In S. Johnson and V. Whiffen (Eds.), Attachment therapy for couple relationships. pp. 18-42. New York: Guilford Press.

            Obegi, J. H., Morrison, T. L., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Exploring intergenerational transmission of attachment style in young female adults and their mothers. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Alexander, K. W., Goodman, G. S., Schaaf, J. M., Edelstein, R. S., Quas, J. A., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). The role of attachment and cognitive inhibition in children’s memory and suggestibility for a stressful event. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Kang, S., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Individual differences in emotional complexity: Their psychological implications. Journal of Personality.

            Schmitt, D. P., … , Shaver, P. R., . . . , & Zupanèiè, A. (in press). Patterns and universals of adult romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions: Are models of self and other pancultural constructs? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Kang, S., Shaver, P. R., Sue, S., Min, K., & Jing, H. (in press). Culture-specific patterns in the prediction of life satisfaction: Roles of emotion, relationship quality, and self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Cohen, M. X., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Avoidant attachment and hemispheric lateralization of the processing of attachment- and emotion-related words. Cognition and Emotion, 18(6), 799-813.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). The behavioral systems contruct: A useful tool for building an integrative model of the social mind. In P. van Lange (Ed.), Bridging social psychology.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Mental representations of attachment security: Theoretical foundation for a positive social psychology. In M. W. Baldwin (Ed.), Interpersonal cognition.

            Schachner, D. A., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Attachment dimensions and motives for sex. Personal Relationships.

            Davis, D., Shaver, P. R., & Vernon, M. L. (2004). Attachment style and subjective motivations for sex. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Banai, E., Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (under review). “Selfobject” needs in Kohut’s self psychology: Links with attachment, self-cohesion, affect regulation, and adjustment. Psychoanalytic Psychology.

            Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Segal, Y. (under review). Rorschach correlates of self-reported attachment dimensions: Dynamic manifestations of hyperactivating and deactivating strategies. Journal of Personality Assessment.

Edelstein, R. S., Alexander, K. W., Shaver, P. R., Schaaf, J. M., Quas, J. A., Lovas, G. S., & Goodman, G. S. (2004). Adult attachment style and parental responsiveness during a stressful event. Attachment and Human Development, 6, 31-52.

Edelstein, R. S., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Avoidant attachment: Exploration of an oxymoron. In D. Mashek & A. Aron (Eds.), Handbook of closeness and intimacy (pp. 397-412). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

Mikulincer, M., Dolev, T., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Attachment-related strategies during thought-suppression: Ironic rebounds and vulnerable self-representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 940-956.

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). Attachment in the later years: A commentary. Attachment and Human Development, 6, 451-464.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Mental representations of attachment security: Theoretical foundation for a positive social psychology. In M. W. Baldwin (Ed.), Interpersonal cognition (pp. 233-266). New York: Guilford Press.

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment theory and research: Resurrection of the psychodynamic approach to personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 22-45.

Berant, E., Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Segal, Y. (2005). Rorschach correlates of self-reported attachment dimensions: Dynamic manifestations of hyperactivating and deactivating strategies. Journal of Personality Assessment, 84, 70–81.

Gillath, O., Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). An attachment-theoretical approach to compassion and altruism. In P. Gilbert (Ed.), Compassion: Conceptualizations, research, and use in psychotherapy (pp. 121-147). London: Brunner-Routledge.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). The behavioral systems contruct: A useful tool for building an integrative model of the social mind. In P. van Lange (Ed.), Bridging social psychology.

Shaver, P. R., & Mikuliner, M. (in press). Attachment theory, individual psychodynamics, and relationship functioning. In D. Perlman & A. Vangelisti (Eds.), Handbook of personal relationships. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Attachment theory and emotion in close relationships: Exploring the attachment-related dynamics of emotional reactions to relational events. Personal Relationships.

Banai, E., Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). “Selfobject” needs in Kohut’s self psychology: Links with attachment, self-cohesion, affect regulation, and adjustment. Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Contributions of attachment theory and research to motivation science.  In J. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of motivation science. New York: Guilford.

Shaver, P. R., Schachner, D. A., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment style, excessive reassurance seeking, relationship processes, and depression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 343-359.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Attachment security, compassion, and altruism. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Schachner, D. A., Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Interpersonal sensitivity in the context of attachment relationships. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.

Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Horesh, N. (in press). Attachment bases of emotion regulation and posttraumatic adjustment. In D. K. Snyder, J. A. Simpson, & J. N. Hughes (Eds.), Emotion regulation in families: Pathways to dysfunction and health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Alonso-Arbiol, I., Shaver, P. R., Fraley, R. C., Oronoz, B., Unzurrunzaga, E., & Urizar, R. (in press). Structure of the Basque emotion lexicon. Cognition and Emotion.

Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (in press). Attachment theory and research: Core concepts, basic principles, conceptual bridges. In A. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2^nd ed.). New York: Guilford .

Hart, J. J., Shaver, P. R., & Goldenberg, J. L. (in press). Attachment, self-esteem, worldviews, and terror management: Evidence for a tripartite security system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 

Schachner, D. A., Scheib, J. E., Gillath, O., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Worldwide, economic development and gender equality correlate with liberal sexual attitudes and behavior: What does this tell us about evolutionary psychology? Brain and Behavioral Sciences.

Noftle, E. E., & Shaver, P. R. (in press). Attachment dimensions and the big five personality traits as predictors of close relationship outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality.

Gillath, O., Shaver, P. R., Mikulincer, M., Nitzberg, R. E., Erez, A., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (in press). Attachment, caregiving, and volunteering: Placing volunteerism in an attachment-theoretical framework. Personal Relationships. 

Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., Gillath, O., & Nitzberg, R. E. (under review). Attachment, caregiving, and altruism: Augmentation of attachment security increases compassion and helping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 

Gillath, O., Bunge, S. A., Shaver, P. R., Wendelken, C., & Mikulincer, M. (under review).  Attachment-style differences and ability to suppress negative thoughts: Exploring the neural correlates. NeuroImage.

Davis, D., Shaver, P. R., Vernon, M. L., Beitz, K., & Follette, W. C. (under review). “I can’t get no satisfaction”: Insecure attachment, inhibited sexual communication, dissatisfaction, and coercion. Personal Relationships.

Shaver, P. R., Mikulincer, M., & Fraley, R. C. (under contract). Attachment processes in adulthood. New York: Guilford Press.

Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. R. (under contract). Primer on attachment theory. New York: Guilford Press.

Alexander, K. W., Goodman, G. S., Schaaf, J. M., Edelstein, R. S., Quas, J. A., & Shaver, P. R. (2002). The role of attachment and cognitive inhibition in children’s memory and suggestibility for a stressful event. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 83, 262-290.