For nearly half a century, psychologists, psychiatrists, ethologists, and myriad other students
of human behavior and family life have summoned these terms to convey the special …

There has been considerable theoretical interest in the developmental importance of affect
mirroring and attunement, but little empirical attention has been directed toward the topic …

Highlights•Infants form attachment to their caregiver despite the quality of parenting.•Parents
program emotionality via regulation of infant physiology.•Parental nurturance and caregiver …

New laboratory research has begun to reveal a network of simple behavioral, physiological
and neural processes that underlie the psychological constructs of attachment theory. It has …

Attachment has generally been examined from the infant's perspective. We focused on
mothers' post-partum thoughts and behaviors. Guided by an ethological approach, maternal …

The mother–infant bond provides the foundation for the infant's future mental health and
adaptation and depends on the provision of species-typical maternal behaviors that are …

RESPONSES of individuals to the loss of a primary attachment object may be quite variable.
In humans, it has been suggested that only about 25% of bereavements result in substantial …

New laboratory research has revealed a network of simple behavioral, physiological, and
neural processes that underlie the psychological constructs of attachment theory. It has …

John Bowlby (1969/1982) was the first to give the psychological concept of human
attachment a strong base in evolutionary theory. He was convinced that early attachment …

Attachment theory was developed by John Bowlby in the 1950s. He defined attachment as a
specific neurobiological system that resulted in the infant connecting to the primary caretaker …