Brumbaugh, Claudia, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D. University of Illinois (Social and Personality Psychology)
Email: claudia.brumbaugh@qc.cuny.edu

Office: RZ 369
Telephone: 718-997-3250

Lab: RZ 246
Webpage

Undergraduate Courses:
PSYC 232 Personality

PhD Courses:
PSYC 740 Personality

Selected Publications:
Brumbaugh, C. C., & Fraley, R. C. (2007). Transference of attachment patterns: How important relationships influence feelings toward novel people. Personal Relationships, 14, 369 – 386.

Fraley, R. C., & Brumbaugh, C. C. (2007). Adult attachment and preemptive defenses: Converging evidence on the role of defensive exclusion at the level of encoding. Journal of Personality, 75, 1033 – 1050.

Brumbaugh, C. C., & Fraley, R. C. (2006). The evolution of attachment in romantic relationships. In M. Mikulincer & G. Goodman (Eds.), The dynamics of romantic love: Attachment, caregiving, and sex (pp. 71 – 101). New York: Guilford Press.

Fraley, R. C., Niedenthal, P. M., Marks, M. J., Brumbaugh, C. C., & Vicary, A. (2006). Adult attachment and the perception of emotional expressions: Probing the hyperactivating strategies underlying anxious attachment. Journal of Personality, 74, 1163 – 1190.

Brumbaugh, C. C., & Fraley, R. C. (2006). Transference and attachment: How do attachment patterns get carried forward from one relationship to the next? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 552 – 560.

Fraley, R. C., Brumbaugh, C. C., & Marks, M. J. (2005). The evolution and function of adult attachment: A comparative and phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 731 – 746.

Fraley, R. C., & Brumbaugh, C. C. (2004). A dynamical systems approach to understanding stability and change in attachment security. In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), Adult attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 86 – 132). New York: Guilford Press.

Research Summary:
My research focuses on uncovering the processes that lead people to experience similar thoughts and emotions across different relationships. The framework of adult attachment theory, coupled with social-cognitive paradigms, has been especially useful in guiding my research. In the future I plan to continue to research questions such as the following: Do people’s desires for predictability and to confirm their existing beliefs sometimes sabotage their interpersonal growth? How do people select their social environments and what leads them to make those choices? How do people of different attachment types “fit” with their social environments and what are the features they value most in others?

Lab Members:
Peryl Grossman

Undergraduate Students:
Daniella Adler
Geoffrey Ng