Attachment Styles

People who try to downplay the importance of close relationships and suppress their emotions are more sensitive to nonverbal signals of love, according to new research published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The findings suggest that nonverbal affection is...

A study published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests a link between parent-child attachment relationships and the development of math anxiety in children. The study found that children who were insecurely attached showed increased math anxiety, even when controlling for age,...

People with avoidant attachment styles are more likely to feel alone in their experience of the world, according to new research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. The study also provides evidence that feeling existentially isolated is a...

Individuals who are high in attachment anxiety make more frequent comparisons to relationships involving ex-partners, compared to those who are low in attachment anxiety. This finding comes from a study published in the Journal of Relationships Research. While relationship research...

Researchers have found one underlying mechanism that helps explain why attachment avoidance is negatively related to relationship satisfaction. Their findings, which were published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, suggests that gratitude towards one's partner mediates the relationship between...

New research has found an association between a person's satisfaction with life and their relationship attachment style. The study, which was published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, also found that "grit" was related to life satisfaction as well --...

Anxiously attached men tend to have a steeper drop in their sexual desire over the course of a relationship, according to new psychology research The study, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, examined how attachment styles influenced sexual...

Anxieties about one's close relationships are associated with aversion towards pattern deviancy, according to new research published in the European Journal of Social Psychology. "I've always been fascinated with objects, experiences, and situations that are irregular, abnormal, and break the...

A woman's attachment style -- how avoidant or anxious she is in close relationships -- is associated with her likelihood of faking an orgasm, according to a new study in The Journal of Sex Research. "Individuals with secure attachment maintain...

Winning a competitive game does not appear to affect the testosterone levels of people who are avoidant in their relationships, according to new research published in Frontiers in Psychology. "How the attachment styles of people affects their social life is...

According to a study published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, a person is  more likely to engage in sexual involvement outside of a relationship if they are not satisfied with their relationship and feel detached from their partner. Extradyadic sexual...

Attachment describes the way in which humans form deep and enduring emotional bonds. We develop these systems very early in life, usually through parent-child interactions, and they shape the way in which we interact with those who we form similarly...

Some people frequently check and re-check their mobile phones. Once this impulse is triggered, it may be more a question of not being able to leave the device alone than actually hoping to gain some reward from it. These insights...