Dutra, L., Bureau, J-F, Holmes, B.M., Lyubchik, A., Lyons-Ruth, K. (In Press). Quality of early care and childhood trauma: A prospective study of developmental pathways to dissociation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Johnson, K.R., & Holmes, B.M. (In Press). Contradictory messages: A content analysis of Hollywood-produced romantic comedy feature films. Communication Quarterly.

Walter, M., Bureau, J-F, Holmes, B.M., Bertha, E.A., Hollander, M., Wheelis, J., Brooks, N.H., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2008). Cortisol response to interpersonal stress in young adults with borderline personality disorder: A pilot study. European Psychiatry, 23, 201-204.

Holmes, B.M. (2007). In search of my "one and only": Romance-oriented media and beliefs in romantic relationships destiny. Electronic Journal of Communication, 17 (3).

Lyons-Ruth, K., Holmes, B.M., Sasvari-Szekely, M., Ronai, Z., Nemoda, Z., & Pauls, D. (2007). Serotonin transporter polymorphism associated with borderline and antisocial traits among low-income young adults. Psychiatric Genetics, 17, 339-343.

Bäckström, M., & Holmes, B.M. (2007). Measuring attachment security directly: A suggested extension to the two-factor adult attachment construct. Individual Differences Research, 5, 124-149.

Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2006). The Relationship Questionnaire – Clinical Version (RQ-CV): Introducing a Profoundly-Distrustful attachment style. Infant Mental Health Journal, 27, 210-225.

Agrawal, H., Gunderson, J., Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2004). Attachment studies with borderline patients: A review. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 12, 94-104.

Bäckström, M., & Holmes, B.M. (2001). Measuring adult attachment: A construct validation of two self-report instruments. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42, 79-86.

Holmes, B.M., & Garcia, A. (Eds.) (2009). Special Issue: Relationship research in Scandinavia. Interpersona (International Journal of Personal Relationships).

Holmes, B.M., & Johnson, K.R. (2009). Advice; Self-help and media advice about relationships. In H.T. Reis and S. Sprechter (Eds), Encyclopaedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Holmes, B.M. (2006). Review of the book An invitation to social psychology: Expressing and censoring the self [by Dale T. Miller]. Journal of Community and Applied Psychology, 16, 244-245.

Holmes, B.M. (2004). Romantic partner ideals and dysfunctional relationship beliefs cultivated through popular media messages: Implications for relationships satisfaction. Ann Arbor, MI: Proquest Information and Learning.

Conference Presentations

1) Holmes, B.M. (August, 1999). Coping strategies: Do attachment styles affect them? Poster presented at the 107^th Annual Convention of American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, USA.

2) Pietromonaco, P.R., Feldman Barrett, L., & Holmes, B. (October, 1999). Distinguishing affective elements in moment-to-moment experience. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Conference (SESP), St. Louis, MO, USA.

3) Holmes, B.M., & Bengtsson, H. (August, 2000). Appraising stressful events: The contributions of attachment style. Poster presented at the 108^th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C., USA.

4) Holmes, B.M., Pietromonaco, P.R., & Feldman Barrett, L. (July, 2002). Behavior during a conflict between dating couples: Contributions of own and partner’s attachment orientation. Poster presented at the 11^th International Conference on Personal Relationships (ICPR). Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

5) Holmes, B.M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Brooks, N.H., Jenei, J., & Zorkina, Y. (November, 2003). Dissociation and the infant-mother dialogue: A longitudinal perspective from attachment research. Poster presented at the 1^st annual Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Radcliff Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

6) Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (May, 2004). The RQ-Clinical Version: Introducing a hostile-distrustful attachment orientation with validation. Poster presented at the 16^th annual conference of the American Psychological Society (APS), Chicago, IL, USA.

7) Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (July, 2004). Introducing the RQ-Clinical Version: Assessment of a hostile-distrustful adult attachment orientation with validation in relation to parent/infant interaction in a high-risk sample. Poster presented at the 2^nd conference of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR), Madison, WI, USA.

8) Holmes, B.M. (July, 2004). Romantic partner ideals and dysfunctional relationship beliefs associated with popular media messages: Implications for relationship satisfaction. Paper presented at the 2^nd conference of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR), Madison, WI, USA.

9) Lyons-Ruth, K., Holmes, B.M., & Heninghausen, K. (April, 2005). Prospective longitudinal predictors of borderline and conduct symptoms in late adolescence: The early caregiving context. Paper symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

10) Holmes, B.M., Lyons-Ruth, K, Manzoor, N.P., & Najmi, S. (April, 2005). Rigid-Distrustful Relational Attitude: A maternal self-report assessment associated with quality of infant care. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

11) Hill, J., Holmes, B.M., Hall Brooks, N., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (September, 2005). Is there social domain specific intergenerational transmission of interpersonal functioning? Paper presented at the Life History Symposium, Oregon, USA.

12) Nemoda, Z., Ronai, Z., Sasvari-Szekely, M., Pauls, D., Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (September, 2005). Serotonin transporter polymorphism associated with borderline and antisocial features. Meeting abstract published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B - Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 138B, 112-112.

13) Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (November, 2005). Maternal rigid-distrust relational attitude: A self-report assessment indicative of future mother/infant relational problems. Paper  presented at the annual meeting of the Scottish branch of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Perth, UK.

14) Dutra, L., Jenei, J., Long, N., Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (November, 2005). Childhood traumatic experiences scale: Using the AAI to assess trauma. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Toronto, Canada.

15) Holmes, B.M. (March, 2006). Adolescents self-esteem and consumption of romance-oriented popular media: Implications for romantic relationship satisfaction. Paper  presented in B.M. Holmes (Chair), Romantic relationship quality in adolescence: Contributing factors and outcomes. Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), San Francisco, California, USA.

16) Holmes, B.M., Hill, J., Hall Brooks, N., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (March, 2006). Mother/Infant interactions as prospective predictors of the quality of friendships vs. romantic relationships at age 20. Paper presented in K. Lyons-Ruth & K.H. Hennighausen (Chairs), Observed adolescent attachment relationships under stress: Infancy predictors, physiologic correlates, and adult outcomes. Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), San Francisco, California, USA.

17) Hennighausen, K.H., Lyons-Ruth, K., Holmes, B.M., Dutra, L., & Hauser, S.T. (March, 2006). Disorganized behavior in adolescence: A longitudinal validation of an interactional measure of adolescent attachment patterns. Paper presented in K. Lyons-Ruth & K.H. Hennighausen (Chairs), Observed adolescent attachment relationships under stress: Infancy predictors, physiologic correlates, and adult outcomes. Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), San Francisco, California, USA.

18) Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (July, 2006). Identifying mother/infants at risk of severe attachment problems: Developing a cost-and-time effective measure for practitioners. Paper presented at the 3rd Conference of the International Association for Relationship Research (IAAR), Rethymnon, Crete, Greece.

19) Holmes, B.M., Lyons-Ruth, K., & Hill, J. (November, 2006). Mother/Infant interactions predict the quality of friendships and romantic relationships of the child at age 20. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Scottish branch of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Perth, UK.

20) Johnson, K.R., & Holmes, B.M. (October, 2007). Contradictory messages: A content analysis of Hollywood-produced romantic comedy feature films. Paper presented at the New Researchers in Family and Relationships Conference. University of Edinburgh, UK.

21) Burea, J-F., Hennighausen, K., Holmes, B.M., Dutra, L., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (March, 2008)Borderline Personality Features, Adolescent Suicidality, and Disorganized Adolescent Parent Interaction during a Conflict Task. Presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL, USA.

22) Holmes, B.M., Lyons-Ruth, K., & Hill, J. (July, 2008). Mother-infant interactions and the quality of adult children's social relationships. Paper presented in K. Fiori & E-M Mertz, (Chairs), Individual, dyadic, and network perspectives on social relations across the lifespan: Implications for well-being. Biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Wurtzburg, Germany.