Science news articles about 'attachment styles'

... response -- the release of oxytocin in the brain in response to positive social interactions -- to attachment styles. A new study from Baylor College of Medicine validates this link. read more

... an area of the brain implicated in fear and arousal), especially in participants with an anxious attachment style. These activation patterns were very specific, because no response in reward circuits ...

... of parenting received during childhood," she says. According to psychologists, people with avoidant attachment styles are individuals uncomfortable with intimacy and are therefore more likely to ...

... Depending on the nature of the relationship between the infant and caregiver, an individual will develop an attachment style characterized by the following two dimensions: anxiety and avoidance," the ...

A recent study found that mothers with an ‘insecure’ attachment style react differently to their children – which may pass on the problem.