Ways Of Attachment Theory

The journal article I chose relates back to our lesson regarding attachment. Attachment theory, according to Cozolino’s, Ways of Attaching, is defined as “a category of implicit social memory that reflects our early experience with caretakers”. A study was drawn to test if discrimination and prejudice against the LGB community had a negative impact on subjective attachment styles. Since our attachment styles are determined from a very young age, this test would be able to confirm whether or not avoidance or anxiety played a role in discrimination.
John Bowlby, a psychologist who studied attachment theory, highlighted the importance of consistency in a caretaker for every human being from the moment they are born. The results of the study done in the article prove his theories to be true. The study took place over a span of a few days in order to gather different information after each situation occurred. Unexpectedly, the results for attachment anxiety were opposite of what was hypothesized. “Anger and fear increased for participants who were low in attachment anxiety but not for those high in
(Mohr, p9) People who ranked high in attachment anxiety were more likely to respond in favor of everyday experiences regarding conflict. As previously stated, this scholarly article relates to the concept of attachment theory we discussed in class. I found that it best related to the chapter/article, Ways of Attaching, from The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain. Researchers who studied attachment observed infants to determine whether they were secure, avoidant, anxious-ambivalent, or disorganized which all stems from the interactions with our primary caretakers. The article on heterosexist encounters really focused on the secure, avoidant and anxious