Adults value certain unique individuals--such as artwork, sentimental possessions, and memorabilia--more than perfect duplicates. Here we explore the origins of this bias in young children, by using a conjurer's illusion where we appear to produce identical copies of real-world objects. In Study 1, young children were less likely to accept an identical replacement for an attachment object than ...

This article explores the interplay of political enthusiasm as a form of fandom and the creation and disappearance of trust as a result of the evolving relationship between fans and their objects of fandom. Drawing on semistructured interviews with supporters of Barack Obama and the UK Liberal Democrats, the article illustrates how the bond between fans and their political fan object is built i...

abstract this study had examined the effect of brief empathic psychotherapy in decreasing anxiety and depression among university students with respect to their attachment styles. as a result we accumulated a sample of 20 students recognized as depressed and anxious by filling dass(depression & anxiety inventory).these students also filled the hazan & shaver attachment questioner and sampling c...

introduction and objectives: nulliparous women with unplanned pregnancy experience high levels of anxiety, which may adversely affect maternal-fetal attachment. therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine the effect of guided imagery on maternal-fetal attachment in nulliparous women with unplanned pregnancy. materials and methods: in this clinical trial, 67 nulliparous women with unplanned ...

This paper proposes a dynamic QoS provisioning model for network mobility. The basic idea of network mobility (NEMO) is to keep connectivity whilst the network changes its point of attachment. To achieve this, sufficient resources need to be provisioned for the entire mobile network. In our model, the packets are prioritized and classified according to the services they are subscribed to i.e. p...

The Circle of Security intervention protocol is a 20-week, group-based, parent education and psychotherapy intervention designed to shift patterns of attachment-caregiving interactions in high-risk caregiver-child dyads to a more appropriate developmental pathway. All phases of the protocol, including the pre- and post-intervention assessments, and the intervention itself, are based on attachme...

The tendency of victims of physical or sexual childhood abuse to become revictimized in later life has well been documented empirically. Moreover, there is a high stability of violent and abusive relationships. The aim of this paper was to summarize perspectives from psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, and posttraumatic stress research to explain revictimization phenomena. The term repetit...

attachment of children to their parents and their separation are two important growth processes which are summoned up in teens again and become more important. the present research tends to find out either the processes of attachment and separation among girls and boys take place in different ways or gender can affect the relationship between these two processes. to this end 300 students of the...