Psychologist John Bowlby released his groundbreaking studies on
human attachment beginning in the late 1950s.
Not exact matches
Human bonding
begins before a child has developed the capacity to describe experiences verbally Although
attachment continues to be an important factor in determining the nature of social and emotional wellbeing throughout childhood and adolescence, the most importantly phase of development is between the age of six and thirty - six months of life.
To summarize a large body of work, the theory of
attachment describes what happens in
human relationships when children
begin life by developing either (1) confidence in the dependability and availability of others or (2) a sense that there is little security in important relationships.
Over the past decade, studies in a range of vertebrates, including
humans, have
begun to address the neural basis of
attachment at a molecular, cellular and systems level.»