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Archive for Attachment In the Media – Page 15

The “Bowlby Less Traveled” Journey Comes to an End

On September 20th, 2011, the FHL Foundation held its annual meeting for the 2011–2012 fiscal year (which ends July 31st of each year). After careful deliberation and consideration, the board and staff decided to de-emphasize its focus on Bowlbian attachment theory as a theory of social change. The reasons for this decision are complex and […]

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Does Chronic Internet Use Mimic Insecure Attachment? Bowlby’s Theory Gives Us a Possible Answer (Part I)

By now most of us have seen the headlines: Is the “Me Generation” less empathetic? Study links Facebook to narcissism Kids who use Facebook do worse in school Maybe we have read books like: David Anderegg’s 2007 book Nerds—Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them (New York: Penguin). Richard Florida’s 2002 book The […]

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“Bowlby’s Battle for Round Earth” Now Available

In my April 27th, 2011, blog post, I announced my decision to put together and self-publish a book entitled “Bowlby’s Battle for Round Earth—Summaries of Bertalanffy & Midgley Revealing the Systems—Attachment Theory (Dis)Connection.” I briefly updated this announcement in my June 13th, 2011, blog post by simply saying that I was still battling away on […]

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UPDATE: Don’t Mess with the Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment

In earlier posts I have argued that the Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment (GBAE) holds the behavioral systems of caregiving, attachment, and sex. Bowlby’s ethological studies (e.g., the study of animal behavior) revealed to him that one of the greatest challenges facing the animal world was how to go about balancing and harmonizing the motivations arising from […]

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Parents’ group scolds TV shows for sexualizing young girls – Yahoo! News

Parents’ group scolds TV shows for sexualizing young girls – Yahoo! News. Pop quiz — After I posted my December 17th, 2010, post entitled “Bowlby Goes to the Movies,” I ran across the above article over at YahooNews. I immediately hit my WordPress “PressThis” button because this article would be a great pop quiz for […]

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