Attachment Styles

People who are anxious about their relationships and fear being rejected tend to use less wit and more irony, while people who are uncomfortable with closeness tend to employ more nonsense humor and sarcasm, according to new research published in...

Attachment to a romantic partner can affect our behavior in many ways, and recent studies have explored different aspects of this phenomenon.

It’s common knowledge that attachment style can affect your relationship, but how about your sex life? A study published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy suggests that insecure attachment styles are associated with less sexual satisfaction and more likelihood to engage...

Recent research challenges the notion that insecure attachment has some evolutionary adaptive benefits. It appears that secure attachment may have benefits for individuals, improving their chances of producing offspring, while anxious and avoidant attachment styles reduce the odds of producing...

A new study examined emotional attachment between members of families with an adolescent or a young adult (18-23 years of age). Results showed that emotional attachment in these families can be described using three distinct psychological components and that an...

Attachment theory is almost everywhere. In magazines and books, in the news, on social media and in our conversations with each other. But some of the most important features of attachment theory are getting lost in translation.

A new study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships seeks to determine if there is a benefit for spouses who struggle with attachment insecurity (anxiety or avoidance) to believe in their partner's positive and caring traits. The...

A new survey revealed that individuals high in attachment anxiety reported higher use of dating apps, but also more negative experiences after recent sexual encounters both with partners they met online and those they met offline. Individuals high in avoidance...

A study on New Zealanders showed that mindfulness buffered the link between anxious attachment and maladaptive sexual motivations. Anxiously attached individuals who were more aware of their motives and reasons for behavior were less willing to engage in sex to...

In two daily diary studies on couples and undergraduate students, researchers found that feeling appreciated buffered the negative link between avoidant attachment style and prosocial behavior towards their partners. People who are uncomfortable with intimacy were more willing to do...

It’s often assumed that all people who are asexual are also “aromantic” – that they aren’t interested in being in romantic relationships or aren’t capable of doing so. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Asexuality exists on a...

A recent study published in Personal Relationships found that the lyrics of our favorite songs could be clues to our attachment style.

People who are insecure about their attachments to others tend to exhibit greater negative attribution bias, according to new research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

New research on German dog owners finds that people with stronger relationships to their pets display more symptoms of mental disorders and distress, but proposes that this link may be fully accounted for by insecure attachment to other humans. The...

Feeling anxious about your romantic relationship and fearing abandonment leads to stronger tendencies to sexually objectify yourself, according to new research published in Psychology of Women Quarterly.