Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior

202 Pages·2015·2.59 MB·English

by  Vivian Zayas

Bases of Adult Attachment
Vivian Zayas • Cindy Hazan
Editors
Bases of Adult Attachment
Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior
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Editors
Vivian Zayas Cindy Hazan
Department of Psychology Department of Human Development
Cornell University Cornell University
Ithaca Ithaca
NY NY
USA USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-9621-2 ISBN 978-1-4614-9622-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9622-9
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Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Normative Processes in Romantic Attachment: Introduction
and Overview .............................................................................................. 3
Cindy Hazan and Emre Selcuk
Part II T he Processes that Promote Adult Attachment Formation
2 T he Distress-Relief Dynamic in Attachment Bonding ............................ 11
Lane Beckes and James A. Coan
3 A n Expectancy-Value Approach to Attachment ...................................... 35
Jennifer A. Bartz, Mark W. Baldwin and John E. Lydon
Part III T he Effect of Previous Experience on Adult
Attachment Formation and Maintenance
4 A ttachment and Relationships Across Time: An
Organizational-Developmental Perspective ............................................. 61
Jeffry A. Simpson, W. Andrew Collins, Allison K. Farrell
and K. Lee Raby
5 T he Biobehavioral Legacy of Early Attachment
Relationships for Adult Emotional and Interpersonal Functioning ...... 79
Lisa M. Diamond
6 How Early Experiences Shape Attraction, Partner
Preferences, and Attachment Dynamics ................................................ 107
Marie E. Heffernan and R. Chris Fraley
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Part IV Development and Change in Adult Attachment Bonds
7 Insights into the Formation of Attachment Bonds from a
Social Network Perspective ..................................................................... 131
Omri Gillath and Gery Karantzas
8 From an Unknown Other to an Attachment Figure: How Do
Mental Representations Change as Attachments Form? ..................... 157
Vivian Zayas, Gül Günaydin and Yuichi Shoda
9 Neural Correlates of Human Attachment: Evidence from
fMRI Studies of Adult Pair-Bonding ...................................................... 185
Bianca P. Acevedo
Index ................................................................................................................ 195
Contributors
Bianca P. Acevedo Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College,
NY, NY, USA
Mark W. Baldwin McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jennifer A. Bartz McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lane Beckes Department of Psychology, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA
James A. Coan Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
VA, USA
W. Andrew Collins University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Lisa M. Diamond University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Allison K. Farrell University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
R. Chris Fraley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA
Omri Gillath Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS,
USA
Gül Günaydin Department of Psychology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Cindy Hazan Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY, U.S.A
Marie E. Heffernan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign,
USA
Gery Karantzas Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
John E. Lydon McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
K. Lee Raby University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Emre Selcuk Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
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Yuichi Shoda Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Jeffry A. Simpson University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Vivian Zayas Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
About the Authors
Bianca Acevedo holds a B.A. in Psychology from New York University and a
Ph.D. in Social/Health Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. Dr. Acevedo is currently a research scientist at the University of California,
Santa Barbara with expertise in Interpersonal Relationships, Neuroscience and
Public Health research. She was formerly at Weill Cornell’s Dept of Public Health
and at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has published several widely
recognized articles on the neural underpinnings of love and attachment in humans
which earned her the 2012 International Woman in Science Award and several
invitations to national and international scientific conferences.
Mark W. Baldwin is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at
McGill University in Montreal Canada. He completed his Ph.D. at the University
of Waterloo, held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Michigan and
the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and held a faculty position at the University
of Winnipeg before moving to McGill. His research interests broadly involve
interpersonal cognition, and specifically focus on the sense of self-with-other that
arises from the activation of interpersonal representations. In recent work he and
his students are examining the possibility of using repetitive computer tasks to
train people’s associative and attentional processes, to facilitate an increased sense
of security.
Jennifer A. Bartz is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychology at McGill University in Montreal Canada. She completed her Ph.D.
at McGill and then was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at
the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She remained at Mount
Sinai as an Assistant Professor (academic track) for four years before joining
the faculty at McGill. Her research focuses broadly on the communal behaviors
(e.g., cooperation, trust, empathy) that are vital to forming and maintaining close
attachment relationships, and how attachment facilitates or hinders such behaviors.
To address this question, she uses an interdisciplinary approach involving methods
from experimental social psychology, cognitive psychology and neuroscience
(e.g., pharmacological challenge, functional imaging, genetics), and studies both
healthy and clinical populations (e.g., borderline personality disorder). A major
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focus of her current work is aimed at understanding the role of biological factors
and, in particular, the oxytocin and opioid systems in regulating attachment, social
motivation, and prosocial behavior in humans.
Lane Beckes’ research focuses on emotional, attachment, and prosocial processes
in interpersonal relationships. His approach is cross-disciplinary employing theory
and methods from social psychology, social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
and evolutionary theory. He has published in a variety of journals with diverse
specializations such as Psychological Science, Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, The Journal of Social
and Personal Relationships, Psychophysiology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and NeuroImage. He received his PhD from the
University of Minnesota in Social Psychology and conducted post-doctoral research
in the University of Virginia’s Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. Currently he is
an Assistant Professor at Bradley University where he is continuing to study the
neurobiological and social processes involved in the social regulation of emotion
and bonding.
James Coan is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the
Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Virginia, in
Charlottesville.
W. Andrew Collins Professor of Child Development. Research areas: Social
development, interpersonal relationships, adolescence, attachment processes.
Lisa M. Diamond is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University
of Utah. She received her doctorate in Human Development from Cornell
University in 1999. Dr. Diamond’s research focuses on adolescent and young adult
social and sexual development, and on the psychobiological mechanisms through
which intimate relationships influence physical and mental health over the life
course. Dr. Diamond is particularly interested in the longitudinal course of sexual
identity development, and in the multiple environmental and psychosocial factors
that influence the emergence and expression of sexual and affectional feelings for
same-sex and other-sex partners at different stages of life. Dr. Diamond has been
awarded grants in support of her research from the National Institute for Mental
Health, The W.T. Grant Foundation, the American Psychological Foundation, the
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, the American Institute for Bisexuality, and
the Templeton Foundation.
Allison K. Farrell Graduate student in Psychology. Research areas: Interpersonal
relationships, power and influence, attachment processes.
R. Chris Fraley is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. His research focuses on attachment theory and close relationships,
personality dynamics and development, and research methods.
Omri Gillath, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology
and the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center at the University of Kansas. His work