Mary Ainsworth
Mary Ainsworth
Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth (née Salter, 1913–1999) was an American-Canadian developmental psychologist who made foundational contributions to the field of attachment theory. Born in Glendale, Ohio, Ainsworth spent most of her childhood in Toronto, Canada, and earned her BA, MA, and PhD in psychology from the University of Toronto
Mary Ainsworth
Strange Situation Experiment
The Strange Situation experiment, developed by Mary Ainsworth in the late 1960s, revolutionized the study of attachment and laid the foundation for a systematic, observational method to assess the quality of infant-caregiver attachment