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Background: The attachment model, as assessed by means of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), is crucial for understanding emotion regulation and feelings of security in human interactions as well as for the construction of the caregiving system. The caregiving system is a set of representations about affiliative behaviors, guided by sensitivity and empathy, and is fully mature in young‐adulthood. Here, we examine how different attachment models influence brain responses in areas related to empathy and emotions in young‐adult subjects with secure and dismissing attachment models. Methods: By means of AAI, we selected 11 nulliparous young‐adult females with a secure model and 12 with a dismissing model. Subjects underwent functional magnetic resonance, whereas imitating or observing and empathizing with infant facial expressions. Subjects were tested for alexithymia and reflective functioning …