When parents consistently respond to hunger or discomfort in babies, suggested Bowlby and Ainsworth, kids learn that they matter. If parents don’t, they can create a sense of insecurity in their ...

Anxiously Attached. In the 1950s, the psychologist John Bowlby coined the term attachment to refer to the bond formed between an infant and its caregiver. He argued that this formative connection ...

How our love is manifested is a function of our attachment style and our personality. Psychologist John Bowlby described attachment as an emotional bond that impacts behavior ‘from the cradle to ...

The different types of attachment patterns in John Bowlby's 'Attachment theory', based on how children respond when they are separated and later reunited with their caregivers, are: 1.

Understanding a client's attachment style—rooted in the pioneering work of John Bowlby (1969) on attachment theory and further elaborated by Mary Ainsworth through her development of the ...

As Spock or Bowlby may have predicted, this was far from the case. “Results demonstrated that the monkeys overwhelmingly preferred to maintain physical contact with the soft mothers,” Gluck wrote.

Reprinted from Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love, by Amir Levine, M.D., and Rachel S. F. Heller, M.A., with permission of J. P. Tar­cher ...

Tannenbaum cites the work of social scientist John Bowlby, who in the 1950s “determined that our attachment to parental figures (in particular, he argued, to mothers) plays a huge, critical role ...

It was first proposed by the 20th-century British psychiatrist John Bowlby, who considered that children needed to develop a secure attachment with their main caregiver via sufficiently consistent ...