The styles come from attachment theory, which arose in the late 1960s out of work conducted by psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. Bowlby hypothesized that if young children did not form ...

Mary Ainsworth's "Strange Situation" is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close collaboration with the British ...

Attachment theory, originally developed by Ainsworth and Bowlby (1978), explains ... including those in the workplace. Our attachment styles shape not just how we connect with others but also ...