Despite decades of laboratory, epidemiological and clinical research, breast cancer
incidence continues to rise. Breast cancer remains the leading cancer-related cause of …

Some of the most emotionally powerful experiences result from the development,
maintenance, and disruption of attachment relationships. In this article, I review several …

Two extant frameworks–the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation
model–attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on …

Background Recent conceptual models argue that early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, which may contribute to poor mental and physical health outcomes. Evidence …

Since the late nineteenth century, cultural historians have noted that the importance of love
increased during the Medieval and Early Modern European period (a phenomenon that was …

Developmental plasticity describes situations where a specific input during an individual's
development produces a lasting alteration in phenotype. Some instances of developmental …

A woman has an increased risk of breast cancer if her lifelong estrogen exposure is
increased due to an early menarche, a late menopause, and/or an absence of childbearing …

One of the assumptions of attachment theory is that individual differences in adult
attachment styles emerge from individuals' developmental histories. To examine this …

Interest in incorporating life history research from evolutionary biology into the human
sciences has grown rapidly in recent years. Two core features of this research have the …

This target article presents an integrated evolutionary model of the development of
attachment and human reproductive strategies. It is argued that sex differences in …