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Attachment behavior by Robert B. Cairns (auth.), Thomas Alloway, Patricia Pliner, Lester Krames (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In social development, second in occurrence is not necessarily second in importance. For most social behaviors, events that occur after infancy have the greatest priority for understanding contemporary social adaptation. 1 Accordingly, this essay is addressed to what happens "beyond attachment," or, more generally, to how interactions are maintained and changed in ontogeny. In the course of development, the individual necessarily relates to others-in playing, in fighting, in working, in mating, in caring for the young. These interchanges are as critical for the survival of the species as the mother-infant relationship is for the survival of the young. Consideration of how they are linked to the initial social attachment and to each other brings us immediately to the nuclear issues of social fixedness, continuity of relationships, and social adaptation; in short, to the dynamics of interactional development. ## Attachment and the Establishment of Interactions Before going beyond social attachment, it seems worthwhile to consider briefly how the interchanges of attachment themselves arise. Systematic efforts 1 Adaptation is a slippery concept that requires definition at the onset. In

Who reads Attachment behavior?

Author

Robert B. Cairns (auth.), Thomas Alloway, Patricia Pliner, Lester Krames (eds.)

Publisher

Springer US

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461341895

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social Science