Jude Anne Cassidy
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Jude Anne Cassidy
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4411
(301)405-4973
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, 1999 – continuing
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, 1996-1999
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia, 1994-1995
Assistant & Associate Professor of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 1988-1996
EDUCATION
B.A. English (magna cum laude), Duke University
M.F.A. New York University
M.A. Developmental psychology, University of Virginia
Advisor: Mary D. Salter Ainsworth
Ph.D. Developmental psychology, (minor in clinical psychology),
University of Virginia, 1986
Advisor: Mary D. Salter Ainsworth.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, 2014 - present
Fellow, American Psychological Association (Division 7), 2012 - present
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2004 – present
The Donald Winnicott Lecture. The Australian Association of Infant Mental Health. Canberra, Australia. 2013.
The 17th Annual John Bowlby Memorial Lecture. The Bowlby Centre, London. 2010.
University of Maryland “Rainmaker” Recognition, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Group Award for Teaching Improvements, Penn State University, 1992.
Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award. American Psychological Association, Division 7, 1991.
Award for Best Research Publication of the Year, The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, (with co-authors S.Vuchinich & R. Emery), 1989.
Postdoctoral Fellow, NIMH Training Grant to the Consortium on Family Process and Psychopathology, 1985-1988.
Fellow, National Center for Clinical Infant Programs [Zero to Three], 1984-1986.
Predoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, DuPont Fellowships, 1980-1984.
Predoctoral Fellow, NIMH Training Grant in Social Ecology and Human Development, 1981-1982.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Co-Editor: Attachment and Human Development 1998 - continuing
Consulting Editor: Infant Mental Health Journal 2009 - continuing
Editorial Board: Child Development 1988 - 1996; Consulting Editor: 2000-2006
Guest Reviewer:
American Psychologist
Applied Developmental Psychology
Applied and Preventive Psychology
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Child Abuse Review
Child Development
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Clinical Psychology Review
Cognitive Therapy and Research
Development and Psychopathology
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychobiology
Developmental Review
Developmental Science
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Early Development and Parenting
Early Education and Development
Family Process
Infancy
Infant Behavior and Development
Infant and Child Development
Infant Mental Health Journal
International Journal of Behavioral Development
Journal of Adolescence
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Journal of Community Psychology
Journal of Counseling Psychology
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Family Psychology
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
Journal of Research on Adolescence
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Journal of Social Behavior and Personality
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
Parenting: Science and Practice
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Personality and Psychology Review
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Psychiatry
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Science
Psychological Services
Psychotherapy Research
School Psychology Review
Science
Social Development
Oxford University Press
Brooks/Cole Publishing
Guilford Press
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
University of MarylandGraduate Faculty Writing Workshop, Office of the Graduate School, 2015 – present
Reviewer, National Institute of Health, Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes Scientific Review Group, 2014.
Member, Advisory Panel, This Emotional Life, PBS. 2009 - continuing.
Member Executive Board, Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies. 2012 – continuing.
Consultant, Maryland’s Child Maltreatment Prevention Initiative, Maryland State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2011.
Member, Advisory Board, Attachment and Human Development Center, Washington School of Psychiatry 2011 – continuing.
Participant, Research and Resilience Working Group. Coming Together Around Military Families Initiative. Sponsored by Zero to Three and the Department of Defense. Washington, DC, Spring, 2011.
Reviewer, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2010/05 ZHD1 DSR-K, 2010, 2011.
Reviewer, National Institute of Mental Health. Risk, Prevention, and Human Behavior Integrated Review Group, ZRG1F11-K (20) L, 2006, 2007.
Participant, Developmental and Translational Models of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation: Links to Childhood Affective Disorders. Workshop sponsored by The National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, April, 2006.
Participant, Teacher Education Research Roundtables. Roundtable discussions on the
relevance of child and adolescent development research to teacher preparation
practices. Sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
(NICHD), and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE),
Spring, 2006.
Member, National Science Foundation’s Human and Social Dynamics Program Review
Panel, 2004.
Reviewer, National Institute of Mental Health NIH B/START Program, 2000 - 2004.
Reviewer, National Institute of Health Center for Scientific Review, Committee ZRG1 RPHB-1, 1999.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, National Institute of Mental Health, Child/Adolescent Development, Risk, and Prevention Review Committee, 1998, 1999.
Grant Reviewer, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: Brain and Cognition Council, 2010
Fetzer Institute, 2009
Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom, 2008
Grants Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, 2009, 2011
National Science Foundation, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2001 - 2005
The Israel Science Foundation, 1998, 2012
Smith Richardson Foundation, 1991, 1994
Spencer Foundation, 1991
Reviewer, National Training Institute, Zero to Three, 1998.
Selection Committees, G. Stanley Hall Award (1993); Boyd McCandless
Award (1994, 2005), American Psychological Association, Division 7.
Selection Committee, Lillian Smith Award, Southern Regional Council, 1992, 1993, 1994.
Reviewer, Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014
Consultant, NICHD Study of Early Childcare, 1993.
Foreign Examiner, Department of Psychology, Sri Venkateswara
University, Andhra Pradesh, India, 1993.
Member, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network on the Transition from Infancy to Early Childhood, Attachment Working Group, University of Washington, 1985 - 1991.
Participant, Attachment: Research Agenda for the 1990's. Working Group sponsored by the Office of Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., February 1991.
Reviewer, International Conference on Infant Studies, 1989.
Reviewer, National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, 1986.
Consultant, National Institute of Mental Health Child Development Laboratory, 1986.
GRANTS
“Reducing the Risk of Troubled Child-Parent Relationships in At-Risk Children,” from the Krieger Fund, Baltimore, 2012-2015.
“Distress Tolerance: Links with Family Emotional Climate and Adolescent HIV Risk,” from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2008-2011.
NIH T32 Graduate Training Program in Social Development, University of Maryland, affiliated faculty, 2003-2008, 2011-2016.
“At-risk Irritable Infants,” from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1999-2006.
“Attachment and Relationships in Adolescence,” from National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), 1998-2002.
“The Relation of Parent-Child Relationships to Adolescents’ Romantic Relationships and Sexual Practices,” from the UMCP/Uniandes Research Fund, 1998.
"Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Adult Attachment," from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1995-1999.
"Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Adult Attachment," from The Pennsylvania State University, Research and Graduate Studies Office Internal Award, 1992-1993.
"Age-Related Differences in Children's Understanding of Loneliness,” from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1990-1992.
"Connections among Mother-Child Discussion of Emotions, Maternal Expressiveness, Attachment, and Children's Understanding of Emotions, "from The Center for the Study of Child and Adolescent Development, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991-1992.
"Infant Physiological Responses to Maternal Emotion Display," from The Pennsylvania State University, Research Initiation Grant, 1990-1991.
"Infant Response to Maternal Emotional Expressions," from The Center for the Study of Child and Adolescent Development, The Pennsylvania State University, 1989-1990.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
Society for Research in Child Development
Society for Social Neuroscience
World Association for Infant Mental Health
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Associate Producer, James Agee Film Project, 1975-1988.
Co-writer of grants received from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, and numerous state arts and humanities endowments. Films included:
• Agee, a documentary about writer James Agee (Academy Award Nominee, 1981; Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival)
• The Electric Valley, a documentary about the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority
• Precious in His Sight, a parents' guide to quality daycare
• Long Shadows, a documentary about the legacy of the American Civil War
• To Render a Life, a documentary about Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the
documentary tradition (Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival)
PUBLICATIONS
Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. R. (Eds.) (in press). Handbook of attachment: Theory, research and clinical applications (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications.
Cassidy, J. (in press). The nature of the child’s ties. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver(Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research and clinical applications (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications.
Shaver, P. R., Mikulincer, M., Gross, J. T., Stern, J. A., & Cassidy, J. (in press). A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver(Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research and clinical applications (3rd edition). New York, NY: Guilford Publications.
Ehrlich, K. B., Miller, G., Jones, J., & Cassidy, J. (in press). Attachment and psychoneuroimmunology. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver(Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Publications.
Sherman, L. J., Rice, K., & Cassidy, J. (in press). Infant capacities related to building internal working models of attachment figures: A theoretical and empirical review. Developmental Review.
Ehrlich, K. B., Richards, J., Lejuez, C. W., & Cassidy, J. (in press). When parents and adolescents disagree about disagreeing: Observed parent-adolescent communication predicts informant discrepancies about conflict. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Jones, J. D., Ehrlich, K. B., Lejuez, C. W., & Cassidy, J. (2015). Parental knowledge of adolescent activities: Links with parental attachment style andadolescent substance use.Journal of Family Psychology, 29,191-200.
Woodhouse, S. S., Lauer, M., Beeney, J. R. S., & Cassidy, J. (2015). Psychotherapy relationship and process in the context of a brief, attachment-based, mother-infant intervention.Psychotherapy, 52, 145-150. doi:10.1037/a0037335.
Jones, J. D., Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. R. (2015a). Connections between adult attachment style and parenting. In J. Simpson & S. Rholes (Eds.). Attachment theory and research:New directions and emerging themes. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Jones, J. D., Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. R. (2015b). Parents’ self-reported attachmentstyles: A review of links with parenting behaviors, emotions, and cognitions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19, 44-76. doi: 10.1177/1088868314541858.
Jones, J. D., Brett, B. E., Ehrlich, K. B., Lejuez, C. W., & Cassidy, J. (2014).Prospective link between maternal attachment style and responses to adolescents'negative emotions: The mediating role of maternal emotion regulation. Parenting: Science and Practice14,235-257.
Ehrlich, K. B., Cassidy, J., Lejuez, C. W., & Daughters, S. (2014). Discrepancies about adolescent relationships as a function of informant attachment and depressive symptoms. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24, 654-666.doi:10.1111/jora.12057
Mazursky-Horowitz, H., Felton, J. W., MacPherson, L., Ehrlich, K. B., Cassidy, J., Lejuez, C. W.,Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2014). Maternal emotion regulation mediates the association between adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms and parenting. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-014-9894-5
Dykas, M. J., Woodhouse, S. S., Jones, J., & Cassidy, J. (2014). Attachment-related biases in adolescents’ memory. Child Development, 85, 2185-2201.doi:10.1111/cdev.12268
Jones, J. D., & Cassidy, J. (2014). Parental attachment style: Examination of links with parent secure base provision and adolescent secure base use. Attachment and Human Development,16, 437-461. doi:10.1080/14616734.2014.921718
Stupica, B., & Cassidy. J. (2014). Priming as a way of understanding children’s mental representations of the social world.Developmental Review, 34, 77-91.
Ehrlich, K. B., Cassidy, J., Gorka, S., Lejuez, C. W., & Daughters, S. B. (2013). Adolescent peer relationships in the context of dual risk: The roles of low adolescent distress tolerance and harsh parental response to adolescent distress. Emotion, 13, 843-851. doi:10.1037/a0032587
Cassidy, J., & Jones, J., & Shaver, P. R. (2013). Contributions of attachment theory and research:A framework for future research, translation, and policy. Development and Psychopathology, 65, 1415-1434.
Cassidy, J., Ehrlich, K. B., & Sherman, L. J. (2013). Child-parent attachment and response to threat: A move from the level of representation. In M. Mikulincer & P. R Shaver (Eds.), Nature and development of social connections: From brain to group (pp. 125-144). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Sherman, L. J., Stupica, B., Dykas, M. J., Ramos-Marcuse, F., & Cassidy, J. (2013). The development of negative reactivity in irritable newborns as a function of attachment. Infant Behavior and Development, 36, 139-146. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.11.004
Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2013). The first bonding experience: The basics of infant-caregiver attachment. In C. Hazan & M. Campa (Eds), Human bonding: The science of affectional ties (pp. 11-40). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Dykas, M. J., Woodhouse, S. S., Ehrlich, K., & Cassidy, J. (2012). Attachment-related differences in perceptions of a single initial interactionemerge over time: Evidence of reconstructive memory processes in adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1381-1389.
Ehrlich, K. B., Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2012).Tipping points in adolescent adjustment: Predicting social functioning from adolescents’ conflict with parents and friends. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 776-783. doi:10.1037/a0029868
Woodhouse, S. S., Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2012). Loneliness and peer relations in adolescence. Social Development, 21, 273-293.
Cassidy, J., Sherman, L. J., & Jones, J. (2012). What’s in a word? Classifying Adult Attachment Interviews using linguistic markers. Attachment & Human Development.
Stupica, B., Sherman, L. J., & Cassidy, J. (2011). Newborn irritability moderates the association between infant attachment security and toddler exploration and sociability. Child Development, 82, 1381–1389. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01638.x
Dykas, M. J., Ehrlich, K. B., & Cassidy, J. (2011). Links between attachment and social information processing: Examination of intergenerational processes. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 40, 51-94.
Ehrlich, K. B., Cassidy, J., & Dykas, M. (2011). Reporter discrepancies among parents, adolescents, and peers: Adolescent attachment as an explanatory mechanism. Child Development. 82, 999-1012.
Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2011). Attachment and the processing of social information across the lifespan: Theory and evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 19-46.
Cassidy, J., & Woodhouse, S. S., Sherman, L., Stupica, B., & Lejuez, C. W. (2011). Enhancing infant attachment security: An examination of treatment efficacy and differential susceptibility. Development and Psychopathology, 23, 131-148.
MacPherson, L., Reynolds, E. K., Daughters, S., Cassidy, J., Mayes, L., Wang, F., & Lejuez, C.W. (2010). Positive and negative reinforcement underlying risk behavior in early adolescents.Prevention Science, 11, 331-342.
Dykas, M. J., Woodhouse, S. S., Ehrlich, K., & Cassidy, J. (2010). Do adolescents and parents reconstruct memories about their conflict as a function of adolescent attachment? Child Development, 81, 1445-1459.
Cassidy, J., Poehlmann, J., & Shaver, P. R. (Eds.) (2010). Incarcerated individuals and their children viewed from the perspective of attachment theory. Special issue of Attachment & Human Development, 12.
Cassidy, J., Ziv, Y., Stupica, B., Sherman, L. J., Butler, H., Karfgin, A., Cooper, G., Hoffman, K. T., & Powell, B. (2010). Enhancing attachment security in the infants of women in a jail-diversion program. In J. Cassidy, J. Poehlmann, & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Incarcerated individuals and their children viewed from the perspective of attachment theory. Special issue of Attachment & Human Development, 12, 333-353.
Cassidy, J., Poehlmann, J., & Shaver, P. R. (2010). Incarcerated individuals and their children viewed from the perspective of attachment theory: An overview. In J. Cassidy, J. Poehlmann, & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Incarcerated individuals and their children viewed from the perspective of attachment theory. Special issue of Attachment & Human Development, 12.
Broussard, E. R., & Cassidy, J. (2010). Maternal perception of newborns predicts attachment organization in middle adulthood. Attachment & Human Development, 12, 159-172.
Woodhouse, S., Ramos-Marcuse, F., Ehrlich, K., Warner, S., & Cassidy, J. (2010). The role of adolescent attachment in moderating and mediating the links between parent and adolescent psychological symptoms. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 51-63.
Feeney, B., Cassidy, J., Lemay, E. P. Jr., & Ramos-Marcuse, F. (2009). Affiliation with new peer acquaintances: Interpersonal dynamics during two initial social support interactions. Personal Relationships, 16, 489-506.
Shaver, P. R., Mikulincer, M., Lavy, S., & Cassidy, J. (2009). Understanding and altering hurt feelings: An attachment-theoretical perspective on the generation and regulation of emotions. In A. L. Vangelisti (Ed.), Feeling hurt in close relationships (pp. 92-122). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Duggan, A., Berlin, L. J., Cassidy, J., Burrell, L., & Tandon, D. (2009). 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, 77, 788-799.
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.
Woodhouse, S. S., Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2009). Perceptions of secure base provision within the family. Attachment & Human Development, 11, 47-67.
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.
Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., Cassidy, J., & Berant, E. (2009). Attachment-related defensive processes. In J. H. Obegi & E. Berant (Eds.), Attachment theory and research in clinical work with adults (pp. 293-327). New York: Guilford Press.
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.
Dykas, M., Ziv, Y., & Cassidy, J. (2008). Attachment and peer relations in adolescence.Attachment Human Development, 10, 123-141.
Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. R. (Eds.) (2008). Handbook of attachment: Theory, research and clinical applications (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications.
Cassidy, J. (2008). The nature of the child’s ties. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver(Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (pp. 3-22; 2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications.
Berlin, L. J., Cassidy, J., & Appleyard, K. (2008). The influence of early attachments on other relationships. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (pp. 333-347; 2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications.
Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2007). Attachment and the processing of information in adolescence. In M. Scharf & O. Mayseless (Eds.), New directions for child & adolescent development: Attachment in adolescence (pp. 41-56). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Dykas, M. J., Woodhouse, S. S., Cassidy, J., & Waters, H. S. (2006). Narrative assessment of attachment representations: Links between secure base scripts and adolescent attachment. Attachment Human Development, 8, 221-240.
Vaughn, B. E., Waters, H. S., Coppola, G., Cassidy, J., Bost, K. K., & Verissimo, M. (2006). Script-like attachment representations and behavior in families and across cultures: Studies of parental secure base narratives. Attachment & Human Development, 8, 179- 184.
Kobak, R., Cassidy, J., Lyons-Ruth, K., & Ziv, Y. (2006). Attachment, stress, and psychopathology: A developmental pathways model. In D. Cicchetti, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology (2nd ed., pp. 333-369). New York, NY: 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.
Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2005). Parental self-efficacy. In C. B. Fisher & R. M. Lerner (Eds.) Applied developmental science: An encyclopedia of research, policies, and programs. (Vol. 2, pp. 787-788). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Dykas, M. J., & Cassidy, J. (2005). Web-based interventions. In C. B. Fisher and R. M. Lerner (Eds.) Applied developmental science: An encyclopedia of research, policies and programs. (Vol. 1, pp. 612-613). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.