Abstract
Over thirty years ago, Shaver and his colleagues (Hazan and Shaver, 1987; Shaver and Hazan, 1988; Shaver, Hazan, and Bradshaw, 1988) suggested that Bowlby’s (1973, 1979, 1980, 1982) attachment theory, which was designed to characterize human infants’ love for and attachment to their caregivers, is also highly relevant to romantic love and adult couple relationships. The core assumption was that romantic relationships - or pair-bonds, as evolutionary psychologists call them - involve a combination of three innate behavioral systems described by Bowlby (1982): attachment, caregiving, and sex.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The New Psychology of Love, Second edition |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 259-279 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108658225 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781108475686 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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