«They provide us with an echo of
real ecological processes, like adaptive radiations, when an organism rapidly diversifies due to a change in environment or to fill a new niche,» O'Dwyer said.
The attachment system is a composite paradigm for understanding relationship
processes, traditionally assessed by valid and reliable interview, projective, or self - report measures (Ravitz et al., 2010), but with a limited
ecological validity in the assessment of
real attachment behaviors.