Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior

Part I: Introduction: Introduction and overview.- Part II: The processes that promote adult attachment formation: The distress-relief dynamic in attachment bonding.- An expectancy-value approach to attachment.- Part III: The effect of previous experience on adult attachment formation and maintenance.- Attachment and relationships across time: An organizational-developmental perspective.- The biobehavioral legacy of early attachment relationships for adult emotional and interpersonal functioning.- How early experiences shape attraction, partner preferences, and attachment dynamics.- Part IV: Development and change in adult attachment bonds: Insights into the formation of attachment bonds from a social network perspective.- From an unknown other to an attachment figure: How do mental representations change as attachments form?.- Evidence from fMRI studies of adult pair-bonding.