The relational unconscious shapes who we love, while new relational experiences and awareness revise inner templates.

A recent study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests we consistently underestimate our power in intimate ...

But once you start paying attention, you realize people who seem the most independent often share a surprisingly recognizable ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology suggests that while mothers and fathers are equally ...

More than a feeling, attachment is an interpersonal regulatory system, one that keeps us calm and safe when it's operating well. For instance, someone gets a distressing phone call, they turn to their ...

Although adversity can intensify attachment in relationships, that intensity can be misleading. Here’s why, according to psychological research.

As the world around her celebrated, Edmonson would be hit with swells of overwhelming, whole-body grief that transported her back to that day on the ship. It felt, she says, like “complete suffocation ...

Cognitive psychology research on the Zeigarnik effect explains why unresolved relationship endings cause compulsive ...

Scientists have long known that the bond between parent and child is vital to a child's social, emotional, and cognitive development. Secure attachment leads to better emotional regulation, healthier ...

Punch, a monkey that went viral after he was abandoned by his mother in a Japanese zoo, is reminiscent of a foundational attachment theory experiment ...

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