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Why You Love the Way You Do
Your dating patterns were set before you could talk.
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Attachment Styles
Attachment styles describe patterns infants use to stay close to caregivers, shaping expectations in future relationships.
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Strange situation
How Mary Ainsworth's 21-minute laboratory test uses separations and reunions to measure the attachment relationship between babies and caregivers.
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Harry Harlow
Harry Harlow was an American psychologist who studied maternal separation, dependency, and social isolation in rhesus monkeys.
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Imprinting (psychology)
Imprinting is a rapid learning process during a brief early window that permanently shapes an animal's social and mating preferences.
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Oxytocin
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone, a small chemical messenger made of amino acids, produced in the brain's hypothalamus.
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Prairie Vole
The prairie vole is a small, burrowing rodent native to the grasslands of North America.
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Attachment in adults
Adult attachment theory shows how early caregiver bonds shape trust, emotional distance, and relationship stability in adulthood.