RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Vacaru, S. V., Waters, T. E. A., & Hunnius, S. (2025). Attachment is in the eye of the beholder: a pupillometry study on emotion processing. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 8015–8019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92347-4
Gu, Y., Waters, T. E. A., Zhu, V., Jamieson, B., Lim, D., Schmitt, G., & Atkinson, L (2025). Attachment expectations moderate links between social support and maternal adjustment from 6 to 18 months postpartum. Development and Psychopathology, 37(1), 371–383. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001657
Houbrechts, M., Waters, T. E. A., Facompré, C. R., Bijttebier, P., Goossens, L., Van Leeuwen, K., Van Den Noortgate, W., & Bosmans, G. (2024). Evidence of a developmental shift in the nature of attachment representations: a longitudinal taxometric investigation of secure base script knowledge from middle childhood into adolescence. Attachment & human development, 26(5), 464-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2399344
Waters, E. & Waters, T. E. A. (2024). Developmental change, bricolage, and how a lot of things develop: Mechanisms and changes in attachment across the lifespan. Development and Psychopathology, 36(5), 2256-2275. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001536
Camia, C., McLean, K. C., & Waters, T. E. A. (2024). Autobiographical memory functions as a stable property of narrative identity. Personality Science, 5. https://doi.org/10.1177/27000710241264452
Yang, R., Waters, T. E. A., Gu, Y., Way, N., Yoshikawa, H., Chen, X., Zhang, G., & Deng, H. (2024). Parental Antecedents of Children's Adherence to Masculinity Norms: A 9-year Longitudinal Study of Urban Chinese Families. Developmental Psychology, 60(6), 1097–1108. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001748
Yang, R., Gu, Y., Cui, L., Li, X., Way, N., Yoshikawa, H., Chen, X., Okazaki, S., Waters, T. E.A. (2024). A cognitive script perspective on how loving and sensitive parenting practices inform adolescent peer relationship and loneliness: A 14-year longitudinal study of Chinese families. Developmental Science, 27(6), e13522. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13522
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Camia, C., Montiani, S., & Waters, T. E. A. (2022). On the way to adult identity: Longitudinal influences of narrative meaning-making on identity formation. Journal of Research in Personality, 101, 104304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104304
Waters, T. E. A., Yang, R., Finet, C., Verhees, M. W. F. T., & Bosmans, G. (2022). An Empirical Test of Prototype and Revisionist Models of Attachment Stability and Change from Middle Childhood to Adolescence: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study. Child Development, 93(1), 225–236. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13672