PSY327H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Need, Attachment In Adults, John Bowlby
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Core components include: knowledge personal knowledge; disclose and share their lives. There are consequences to the presents and absence of these components. What makes life meaningful: 89% say close intimate relationships, close and intimate relationship brings meaning to life above work, travel or hobbies. Result shows an ingroup favoritism (favor those in their own group: we form friendships based on proximity being near each other helps to forms bonds. Social bonds are difficult to break: people are reluctant to admit that even relatively meaningless relationships will end, people promise to maintain contact even when such contact is unlikely. Summary: the need to belong: relationships are easy to form and difficult to break, without close connections, we suffer, our need to belong can be satiated, the need to belong is innate and universal. What is attachment? protection, comfort, and support: attachment emerges from childhood and persist through adolescent and into adulthood.
