Holmes, B.M., & Johnson, K.R. (2009) Adult attachment and romantic partner preference: A review. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 26, 833-852.

Johnson, K.R., & Holmes, B.M. (2009). Contradictory messages: A content analysis of Hollywood-produced romantic comedy feature films. Communication Quarterly, 57, 352-373.

Dutra, L., Bureau, J-F, Holmes, B.M., Lyubchik, A., Lyons-Ruth, K. (2009). Quality of early care and childhood trauma: A prospective study of developmental pathways to dissociation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197, 383-390.

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., & Johnson, K.R. (2009). Where fantasy meets reality: Media exposure, relationships beleifs and standards, and the moderating effect of a current relationship. In E.P. Lamont (Ed.), Social Psychology: New Research, Chapter 6 (pp. 117-134).

Holmes, B.M., & Garcia, A. (Eds.) (2009). Special Issue: Relationship research in Scandinavia. Interpersona, 3 (1st Supplement)

Hennighausen, K.H., Bureau, J-F., David, D.H., Holmes, B.M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2009). Disorganized attachment behavior observed in adolescence: Validation in relation to adult attachment interview classifications at 25. In J. Solomon & C. George (Eds.), Attachment Disorganization (2nd Ed.). New York: The Guilford Press.

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 107th Annual Convention of American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, USA.

2) Pietromonaco, P.R., Feldman Barrett, L., & Holmes, B.M. (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 108th 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 11th 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 1st 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 16th 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 2nd 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. Talk given at the 2nd 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, 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. Talk given 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.Talk given 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. Talk given 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. Talk given in B.M. Holmes (Chair), Development of Attachment Relationships. Biennial meeting 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 feature films. Paper presented at the New Researchers in Family and Relationships Conference. University of Edinburgh, UK.

21) Bureau, J-F., Hennighausen, K., Holmes, B.M., Dutra, L., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (March, 2008). Borderline personality features, adolescent suicidality, & disorganized adolescent parent interaction during a conflict task. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Chicago, IL, USA.

22) Holmes, B.M., Lyons-Ruth, K., & Hill, J. (July, 2008). Quality of Friendships and Well-Being: Links across Three Generations. Presented in K. Fiori & E-M Mertz, Cross-Sectional, Dyadic, and Longitudinal Perspectives on Social Relations across the Adult Lifespan: Implications for Adaptive Outcomes. Symposium at the Biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), Würzburg, Germany.

23) Holmes, B.M., Gunning, M., Murray, L., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (November, 2008).Emotional Intelligence is Related to the Success of Mother/Infant Bonding. Paper presented to the annual conference of the British Psychological Society – Scottish Branch, Glasgow, Scotland.

24) Holmes, B.M., Gunning, M., Murray, L., Kelly, K., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (April, 2009). Emotional intelligence is related to mother-infant bonding problems. Paper presented in B.M. Holmes & F.C. Jellesma (Chairs), Emotional Intelligence and the Parent-Child Relationship. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Denver, Colorado, USA.

25) Lyons-Ruth, K., Bureau, J-F., Holmes, B.M., Sasvari-Szekely, M., Ronai, Z., & Nemoda, Z. (April, 2009). Gene-environment interaction in the serotonin system and adolescent impulsive, self-damaging behavior. Paper presented in K. Lyons-Ruth & Bureau, J-F. (Chairs), Gene Expression and the Early Caregiving Environment: A new Interdisciplinary Frontier. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Denver, Colorado, USA.

26) Lyons-Ruth, K., Bureau, J-F., Henninghausen, K., Holmes, B.M., Easterbrooks, A. (April, 2009). Parental helplessness and adolescent role-reversal as correlates of borderline features and self-injury. Paper presented in J-F Bureau & K. Lyons-Ruth (Chairs), Relational Predictors of Self-Damaging Behavior in Adolescence: Multiwave Longitudinal Analyses. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Denver, Colorado, USA.