Bases of Adult Attachment Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zayas, Vivian (Editor), Hazan, Cindy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Developmental psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

A great deal is known about how infants form attachments, and how these processes carry over into adolescence. But after that, the trail grows cold: the study of adult attachment emphasizes individual variations, paying little attention to the normative mechanisms of adult bonding. A much-needed cor...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Introduction: Introduction and overview
• Part II: The processes that promote adult attachment formation: The distress-relief dynamic in attachment bonding
• An expectancy-value approach to attachment
• Part III: The effect of previous experience on adult attachment formation and maintenance
• Attachment and relationships across time: An organizational-developmental perspective
• The biobehavioral legacy of early attachment relationships for adult emotional and interpersonal functioning
• How early experiences shape attraction, partner preferences and attachment dynamics
• Part IV: Development and change in adult attachment bonds: Insights into the formation of attachment bonds from a social network perspective
• From an unknown other to an attachment figure: How do mental representations change as attachments form?
• Evidence from fMRI studies of adult pair-bonding. .