Jude Cassidy

Jude Anne Cassidy is Professor of Psychology and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. Cassidy was awarded the American Psychological Association Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award in 1991 for her early career contributions to Developmental Psychology. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) and the Association for Psychological Science.

Cassidy co-edited the ''Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications'' with Phillip Shaver. She is the author of two monographs on attachment theory published by the Society for Research in Child Development. One of these monographs, ''Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the level of representation'', cited 6229 times according to GoogleScholar, provided new insight into individual differences in parent-infant attachment relations as assessed through the Strange Situation. Cassidy currently serves as co-editor of the journal ''Attachment and Human Development.'' Provided by Wikipedia