Highlights•Security priming helps understanding internal working models.•Security priming
is generally associated with beneficial effects.•Guided imagery and visualization are …

Attachment security priming has important theoretical and practical implications. We review
security priming theory and research and the recent concerns raised regarding priming. We …

A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing
your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life. When …

Adult Attachment: A Concise Introduction to Theory and Research is an easy-to-read and
highly accessible reference on attachment that deals with many of the key concepts and …

Background Recent research has shown that insecure attachment, especially attachment
anxiety, is associated with poor mental health outcomes, especially during the COVID‐19 …

Two decades of research on adult attachment and psychopathology, suggest that while
various indicators of attachment insecurity increase risk for psychopathology, these findings …

While working in a home for maladjusted and delinquent boys in the 1930's, John Bowlby
was struck by the boys' difficulty in forming close emotional bonds with others. After studying …

In two studies, we examined the novel hypothesis that empathy is a mechanism through
which the relationship between attachment patterns and prejudice can be explained. Study …

Attachment theory emphasizes both the importance of the availability of caring, supportive
relationship partners, beginning in infancy, for developing a sense of safety and security …

Background Research shows that childhood trauma has a detrimental impact on an
individual's health, including suicidal ideation. In order to intervene with suicidal ideation, it …